Plastics Debate

[calda49]

Yes I agree about the overuse of plastics, but do feel aggrieved at the idea of being charged more, which I can then take back to the shop for a refund. What about those of us who already recycle via our council bins, do we stop doing this and take them back to purchase point?
I just feel this whole debate is a kind of kneejerk reaction and has not seriously been thought through, or did I get out of the wrong side of bed this morning?

[ummmm]

It's aimed at litterers. I don't mind paying extra and to be honest I probably wouldn't notice the rise in price.

[Prudie]

You only have to look at the amount of plastic on verges and in hedgerows (never mind what's floating in the oceans) to realise that sadly many don't recycle and worse don't care about dropping litter. Knee-jerk maybe but something has to be done and it's a start.

[ummmm]

I have a box bay window and I leave my recycling boxes out next to my door step (more to cover up the rude words written in the cement :-D) but most days someone throws their rubbish in my bins. I just recycle it. I'd much rather that than see it in the street.

[Old_Geezer]

Let the kids, or neighbours' kids, take them back for you.
I feel more aggrieved at the idea of paying rates, then being charged more again for services that had already been covered.

[Hopkirk]

Someone will quickly find a way to defraud the system.

[Georgiesmum]

kids will be able to seek out the plastic bottles that people have dumped and collect the deposit, similar to what we used to do with the fizzy pop bottles when we were growing up.

[jourdain2]

It was a thruppenny bit per bottle when you staggered to the lorry with your arms full of other people's bottles. Not to be sneezed at and when you took the money back to the owners they gave you half.

I don't think it's been thought through either. All supermarkets are designed to push stuff out, not collect it in. I am highly keen on recycling and not polluting and I regularly pick up litter on our village green, by the way. It would affect the recycling bins for the council. The problem seems to be that there is no one authority in charge throughout an area to pull it all together.

I'll happily pay a deposit if L.A.s are spared the expense of dealing with plastic bottles - but they have invested so much in recycling (our area came top in the country, I think) that it would be a waste to duplicate it. A tough one.

[andres]

We can all do our bit in helping to cut down on plastics. When you are in the supermarket try wherever possible to buy products in glass containers not plastic. Leave the plastic on the shelf. Also we put all the plastic wrappers in the dustbin with a funnel on top . Then every so often burn it. Hardly anything goes in the landfill bin .

[jourdain2]

I bought a swede in Morrison's yesterday. It was encased in plastic. I asked at customer services why this was so. 'Head Office' was the reply. I explained that the plastic was superfluous as swedes have to be peeled and the lady agreed - so she helped me send feedback. Perhaps if lots of people mentioned unnecessary packaging the message might get through.

[rockyracoon]

"Also we put all the plastic wrappers in the dustbin with a funnel on top . Then every so often burn it. Hardly anything goes in the landfill bin "
Is that not defeating the purpose, though? You're filling the air with poisonous gases released by burning plastic.

[andres]

10 mins. burning plastic wrappers in a bin in the open field and not breathing in the fumes will probably do me less harm than all the exhaust fumes from planes and cars that are polluting the atmosphere every minute of every single day.

[rockyracoon]

But, if everyone did it......

[nailit]

//What about those of us who already recycle via our council bins//
There are those of us that dont have that facility. I live in a high rise flat and we only have a skip that EVERYTHING goes into and the nearist waste facility (which has recycling skips) is too far away, unless you have transport. Personally I wish that they would charge 50p for a carrier bag. We live in a throwaway society thats destroying the planet for our kids.

[Tilly2]

What we need to do is go shopping in a major supermarket and, having paid for the produce, stand somewhere and take off all the superfluous wrapping from everything in the trolley. Having done that, we need to dump the lot onto the customer service desk and leave it there.

Imagine what would happen if everyone did that.

[DTCwordfan]

Move to Zimmerset and join the protest...

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/keynsham-tesco-shoppers-stage-anti-1389865

[nailit]

But how would I get my fresh fish and beef joint home then Tills?
Make a hell of a smell in the taxi...

[DTCwordfan]

cook it on the cab engine, nailit, and you could have a ready meal as you get home - horse-meat is difficult owing to the power involved.

[nailit]

interesting article DT.
Saw something interesting on TV about a week ago (local news programme I think) about a familiy who tried to live 'plastic free' for a week. Found it virtually impossible.

[nailit]

LOL DT, Kill 2 birds with one stone that way eh?