29-12-2018, 11:10 AM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Couldn't we use the recycled paper that we have tons and tons of ?
29-12-2018, 12:02 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by JBR
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I have the same problem, but I don't let it worry me.If it is garden waste or food waste, it goes in the green bin.
If it is paper or card (of any type), it goes in the blue bin.
If it is a container, metal, glass or plastic (of any type), it goes in the brown bin.
Anything else goes in the black bin.
Fine details are unimportant, as the council probably send it all to landfill anyway!
....They put a plastic sticker on it of course.
29-12-2018, 12:05 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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The quality of recycled paper is not as good as the new stuff Julie and it's a lot cheaper and faster to make paper from wood pulp. I can't see the big paper manufacturers in this country deliberately making their product more expensive when other countries will take the cheaper option....Would you start paying ten pence for a paper bag?
29-12-2018, 12:15 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
I remember when I was about five years old and my younger sister was in my mother's pram. I had to toddle alongside because the rest of the space on the pram was full of shopping bags - but they were the big old-fashioned type made from leather, cotton or wool material or paper bags with handles. I don't remember my mother having carrier bags when I was young. We'll all be using those pull along tartan trolleys again soon.
29-12-2018, 12:17 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Perhaps we should invest more in 3D printers, then we wouldn't need to go shopping, we could just print it all.
29-12-2018, 12:49 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Couldn't we use the recycled paper that we have tons and tons of ?
In my job, I visited lot of paper mills both here in UK and elsewhere in the world. Almost all used recycled material.The largest in this country used entirely recycled paper. It was part of their sales pitch.
If you wipe your bum or blow your nose a worldwide brand of tissues is manufactured in Kent out of recycled material.
One in Taiwan that I did the drives for used bagasse which is sugar cane waste.
A paper mill in Oxford, now sadly closed, used recycled paper to make every grade from the glossy used for porno mags to the fine (35gsm) used for bibles.
29-12-2018, 12:51 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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We can and do.In my job, I visited lot of paper mills both here in UK and elsewhere in the world. Almost all used recycled material.The largest in this country used entirely recycled paper. It was part of their sales pitch.
If you wipe your bum or blow your nose a worldwide brand of tissues is manufactured in Kent out of recycled material.
One in Taiwan that I did the drives for used bagasse which is sugar cane waste.
A paper mill in Oxford, now sadly closed, used recycled paper to make every grade from the glossy used for porno mags to the fine (35gsm) used for bibles.
29-12-2018, 01:10 PM
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Re: Plastic Bags go up to 10p
Originally Posted by Floydy
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I remember when I was about five years old and my younger sister was in my mother's pram. I had to toddle alongside because the rest of the space on the pram was full of shopping bags - but they were the big old-fashioned type made from leather, cotton or wool material or paper bags with handles. I don't remember my mother having carrier bags when I was young. We'll all be using those pull along tartan trolleys again soon.|
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