Charging For Plastic Bags

[maggiebee]

I know that charges are being introduced by supermarkets for plastic shopping bags and I fully agree with this. However, I took my grandkids to McDonalds and noticed a sign saying that they were starting to charge 5p for paper bags!
Think this is a step too far - how on earth can you get a "Happy Meal" home if it's not in a bag?

[mccfluff]

i thought happy meals came in boxes?

[ummmm]

They do.

[RATTER15]

Its just 5p!!

[sunny-dave]

If McD are forced to spend every single 5p in cleaning up the vile tide of filth that (many of) their customers leave around the countryside near me, then it's a 'good thing'.

[Svejk]

same in the takeaways. They hand over red-hot foil containers and leaky polystyrene 'cups' and then ask if you'd like a 5p bag, lol. You'll soon get used to it.

[maggiebee]

Sorry yes, 5p for bags and boxes. Who gets this money? - McDonalds must sell thousands and thousands of meals per week.

[Svejk]

Enviromental charities, allegedly.

[RATTER15]

I believe the money goes to charity.

[Old_Geezer]

Serves you right for supporting the idea of paying for bags in the first place. Those who make a rod for their own backs find they have applied it to others also.

[sunny-dave]

How hard is it to keep a couple of (re-usable) bags in the car?

[ummmm]

Not everyone has a car.

[maggiebee]

I agree with paying for plastic bags as there is no need for them. Folding shopping bags are so cheap yet week after week I see shoppers with up to 10 plastic bags in their trolleys just because they are too lazy to take their own with them. Paper bags are in a different league - easily recycled and don't clog up landfill sites for years as they just disintegrate.

[Svejk]

well that's good for the environment. Drive your car everywhere. ;)

[RATTER15]

No charge on reusable bags if I am correct!

[sunny-dave]

OK - make that

"in your car or handbag or pocket or stuffed in your bra/pants/cummerbund"

[sunny-dave]

Personally I get the manservant to fetch my Kentucky Fried Rat - he has asbestos fingertips grafted on.

[ummmm]

I'm a terribly forgetful person. I have loads of 'bags for life' but tend to forget to take them with me.

[MissCommando]

We have been paying for carrier bags since 2011 here in Wales so count yourselves lucky. If we ever have a Mcd, we usually say no thanks to a paper bag but they normally put the chips in one for free anyway.

[Svejk]

we've paid in wales for a couple of years and there's no doubt you change your 'wasteful' habits.

[sandyRoe]

Paper bags are biodegradable so there should be no charge. I agree with the charge for plastic ones if it makes people think twice before using them.