Scotland to charge for plastic bags

[MrGongGong]

OMG MrGG is a VOLVO DRIVER.

Grade V harp
Reverse the Volvo into a tight parking space

[french frank]

with a car full of gear

If it is 'full of gear' it doesn't have spare seats. But when it isn't full of gear, you can take the bus ... :-)

[MrGongGong]

If it is 'full of gear' it doesn't have spare seats. But when it isn't full of gear, you can take the bus ... :-)

aaah yes
There are two a day
and they all stop at 8pm
hopeless

Are you by any chance "channelling" Alex Salmond ?
because you really haven't thought this one through , have you !

[french frank]

Are you by any chance "channelling" Alex Salmond ?
because you really haven't thought this one through , have you !

No, it was sort of a light-hearted suggestion which didn't really require thinking through :-)

[MrGongGong]

No, it was sort of a light-hearted suggestion which didn't really require thinking through :-)

aaaah like using the word "pledge" out of the context of household cleaning products ? ;-)

[Serial_Apologist]

I am working on a formula which takes into consideration: age of car, petrol consumption and performance, no of available seats, size of engine, availability of local public transport, seat covering, tinted glass ... :-)

That's good because Stephen Hawking's looking for another job, I hear.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

aaah yes
There are two a day
and they all stop at 8pm

That's because you and others are driving around in cars.

[MrGongGong]

That's because you and others are driving around in cars.

erm
no it's not
it's because people think that everything should be run as a money making business
and not all of us live in big cities

[Flosshilde]

the French ... providing free of charge the kinds of "bag for life"

Which doesn't do much to encourage people to take a bag with them when they go shopping, & therefore isn't much better than providing free 'single use' bags. The policy is about changng habits and minds.

[teamsaint]

Some people are capable of thinking and acting appropriately without being told how to do things , and having their minds changed,by all those fine upstanding politicians, who will , you can be sure, creating far more pollution from their own lifestyles than the average citizen.
Virtually all mainstream politicians support policies which encourage maximum economic growth, and associated waste, so one might see this policy as something like crocodile tears.

The friends of the earth also suspect that this is a distraction from the governments poor environmental record.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24088523

[MrGongGong]

Some people are capable of thinking and acting appropriately without being told how to do things , and having their minds changed,by all those fine upstanding politicians, who will , you can be sure, creating far more pollution from their own lifestyles than the average citizen.
Virtually all mainstream politicians support policies which encourage maximum economic growth, and associated waste, so one might see this policy as something like crocodile tears.

The friends of the earth also suspect that this is a distraction from the governments poor environmental record.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24088523

Indeed they are all bastards who think that "growth" is automatically good regardless of its consequences
but fewer plastic bags would seem to be a good thing IMV

[teamsaint]

Indeed they are all bastards who think that "growth" is automatically good regardless of its consequences
but fewer plastic bags would seem to be a good thing IMV

I agree about the plastic bags thing.Deffo.

Although just now I could do with a few more....

[jean]

Indeed they are all bastards who think that "growth" is automatically good regardless of its consequences...

Not the Green Party, please note.

[french frank]

aaah yes
There are two a day
and they all stop at 8pm
hopeless

I think my inclusion of the phrase 'availability of public transport' might cover that, though :-). A moped might be better than a 13-year-old Volvo when it's not 'full of gear' or people, perhaps

[french frank]

The friends of the earth also suspect that this is a distraction from the governments poor environmental record.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24088523

I think the phrase "This small step will do little to tackle the nation's huge waste mountain and can't disguise the government's woeful green record" doesn't suggest the move is a 'distraction', though - the FoE spokeman said it was 'welcome' news. Their criticism now would presumably be that it hasn't been introduced by the UK government.