Thread: this 5p carrier bag bullshit

why is everyone buying into the whole 'we are doing this because there are far too many bags being put in land fill and we need to save the world' (man will never kill the world this planet will be here long after mankind is extinct)there are far more plastic bottles being tipped at landfill than carrier bags hell fuck most bags that make it to landfill are the 'negro' bags anyway not shitty little carrier bags that take up 00000000000.01% of the land fill space

its pissing me off to no end i was asked to leave iceland the week before xmas due to the uproar i caused because i refused to pay for bags when i needed none seeing as i was getting it delivered, why do they need to be in bags if all they do is sit in a tray, fuck that with a hammer (i probably deserved to be kicked out because i got more irate when nobody could give me an answer to why they needed to be in bags)

its clear that the only reason theres a tax for bags is to stimulate the economy because people are spending less but instead of taxing let's say ooo microsoft who have 5 separate plastic bags inside of a fucking box (for the xbox 360) shouldn't the government be taking money off them for that
i don't think so
they'd rather screw everyone but the corporations the reason this economy is in the shit is due to rich retards making bad investments with our money and they get rewarded instead of punished or fired

they should be face fucked to death

and the bullshit that asda and tesco and the like are claiming they are giving 100% of the money to charity is bag of stale cum
sure they'll give a % away to make themselves look good for the people who lap that shit up like a bitch in heat
but theres no fucking way they'll come out with any real figures or numbers


does anybody question anything anymore or do we just bend over and let them rape us with their gospel truth


/end of the rant for now

I saw a guy explain it this way the other day:

The UK used 14 billion bags a year. Each bag costs about £0.02 overall. A total cost of about £260M a year.

The retailers love it cause they now get extra money.

The customers are apparently using a third less bags, saving about £80M a year already.

About 112,000,000KG less waste goes into landfill, saving about £4M a year.

Arguably everybody wins, sort of, if they adapt.

*edited i'll come back to the carrier bag price but by your calculation its 280 mil im a pickle for accuracy.....sometimes*

and whos benefiting from that 80m a year we save because us consumers are using 9.4b carrier bags a year (apparently)
9.4b * 0.5 = four billion seven hundred million (my maths might be fail im a little woo woo right now)

and again thats not the problem with land fill its other bigger/more commonly used/less fragile plastics are the problem with landfill
10 carrier bags does not = a single 75ml bottle of coke and there are far more bottles/yogurt pots/etc than carrier bags kinda obvious the things inside of the carrier bags that we are dumping is the problem

i worked at a recycling centre/land fill site for 18 months and we could only recycle 63% of the plastics that people put out in recycling bags the rest went to land fill
the volume was just too high and the market for recycled plastics is being over saturated as recycled plastic is shit and can only be recycled so many times before it turns into a mule


also a lot of hard plastics like i dunno garden furniture is non recyclable most of the time

I think the point was it was 14billion when they started the initiative and it's already dropped to 9 billion. That was how I heard it on a Science journal at work anyway.. Doesn't really matter but the numbers are fairly impressive.

Less addiction to oil = fewer Iraqs = lower cost too. Lets just say it saves the government £10M, the retailers £10M and the public £10M. Would you do it to change the world a little bit?

PS I'm not defending it, plus I'm lucky I live in England

the only time our addiction to oil will end or decrease to a point where we are not raping it out of the ground will be when there's none left and if oil peak theorists are right then the next generation is going to be fucked, over population is a problem nobody will admit too there's never been this many people alive on this planet before
(1 possible/not really a solution but it would help slightly much like the bag tax lol get the jeremy kyle show to send letters to all the people thats been on and then lace the letters with anthrax)

and its clear iran is next with the yanks selling all them bunkbusters to israel if the yanks didn't wanna use them against iran im sure dem jews got no problem

bombs are made to be used and will be used it's fuckin' grim how the world 'works'