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Ban the bag plea

10:11am Monday 21st April 2008

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THE battle to cut down on carrier bags has been driven home to York's MP.

Councillor Ruth Potter presented a Ban The Bag petition, calling for a ban on plastic bags, to Hugh Bayley in Parliament Street and said: "We need to encourage people to use their own bags to shop. We see bags stuck in trees and hedgerows and they cause such a nuisance to the environment. Bags take such a long time to biodegrade and can end up hanging around for a long time."

Mr Bayley said: "Everybody has to take action to reduce global warming."

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viper, says...
11:03am Tue 22 Apr 08

MyView wrote:
What about the charities who keep putting plastic bags through our doors? I usually get 2-3 of these every week and when I put them outside (empty) they are never collected back by them.
Ah yes, the plastic bag that is wrapped up in a plastic Wrapper. Genius!
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viper, says...
11:01am Tue 22 Apr 08

the places where they were banned saw a huge increase in plastic bin liners bought in shops.
These end up being just one use, rather than used to carry shopping a few times then used to line a bin say.

The % of plastic bags in landfill is tiny and won't change much, there's a helluva lot more plastic from other sources but that doesn't get inches in papers or voters.

The majority of supermarket plastic bags are made from recycled material and they do break down within a year, and they do get reused not just recycled.

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Dubaimike, Dubai UAE says...
4:38pm Mon 21 Apr 08

I do not know why there is all this dithering and debate - JUST BAN THEM - period China has done it. A lot of the major supermarkets in Duba have banned plastic bags. Others charge 10p per bag. Why waste time, energy and waffle on the subject - or are we tampering with someones "human rights"???
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MyView, York says...
12:52pm Mon 21 Apr 08

What about the charities who keep putting plastic bags through our doors? I usually get 2-3 of these every week and when I put them outside (empty) they are never collected back by them.
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