Theresa May proposes plastic-free supermarket aisles in green strategy

Manchester Guardian ^ | Wed 10 Jan ‘18 17.30 EST | Peter Walker

[tet68]

Sounds so nice.

So what do we use instead?

Don’t just stand there, hold out your hands.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So what do we use instead?

Paper bags, the cardboard boxes their shipments come in....just like the saner good ole days.

(The Northeast has a tree every square foot)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So what do we use instead?

Bring in the competitor's plastic bags, with their logo proudly emblazoned on the side.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t need to tell you where their heads are at.

LOL

[BunnySlippers]

Fewer $$$ in your pocket.

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

That’s about it...

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn’t she talking about plastic containers for food, shampoo, and a myriad of other items?

[BlueLancer]

I don’t know...grocery aisle with no plastic could work....

Just take everything that is normally in plastic and mix it all together in one large vat. Then everyone can come by and fill their tin cup up whenever they need something. Of course, it may not look or taste appetizing, but ... hey! What do you peasants expect.

Take all the swill that you want, but eat all the swill that you take! It's all the swill you can eat!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Wasn’t she talking about plastic containers for food, shampoo, and a myriad of other items?

Not exclusively.

>>May will promise to extend the hugely successful 5p levy on plastic bags<<

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, those bag charges are just one more way of squeezing money out of consumers. It’s like the California soda bottle charge, 10 cents per unit.

They make a ton of money off this, and I don’t think it goes to help anything related to the bottles.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Correct me if I’m wrong.

No, you're not.

In Maine, they put a dollar tax on a car battery, and a tax on appliances, although they do absolutely nothing to stockpile nor recycle either category.

However, I can say at least the returnable bottle tax encourages people to gather them up and turn them in for cash.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not convinced that they do though. Perhaps some folks do.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I’m not convinced that they do though. Perhaps some folks do.

Are you kidding me?

You can see them walking the ditches picking up cans and bottles. And in Portlsand.....pro-dumpster divers.

[Rebelbase]

“Blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top, cut my heel had to cruise on back home...”

Had it been 20 years later it never would have been written.

[DoughtyOne]

Do you take yours to a redemption center?

[antidisestablishment]

$h¥7h0!e countries don’t use no bags:

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Sure.

There is a large facility in the area that takes in tractor trailer loads of cans and bottles from all over the state and processes them.

It’s like a big factory that has conveyor belts, crushers, front end loaders, yard trucks and other interesting gear. They have huge piles of pulverized glass outside, heaped up by loaders.

The place stinks to high heaven of stale beer.

[DoughtyOne]

They’re the good one. LOL

[DoughtyOne]

It would cost me more in gas money to deliver them for a refund. I haven’t turned in cans or plastic since the 70s.