5p Plastic Bag Charge in England - why are they going nuts about it? It's chaos!

Good God what is it with the English?
Us Welsh folk have had bag charges for years now. yes initially pissed off, I mean - it's a carrier bag we pay for that through our goods surely?
But here in God's own country, (yes Wales ) it's generated £22 MILLION !!
And all for charity.

That's worth it.

But oh no, the shoppers and shops themselves in England, are crying out - there'll be mass confusion, people will lost tempers at the tills, people will be confused and don't know what to do..
Basically mass chaos throughout the country.

Confusion Over 'Complicated' Plastic Bag Law

Plastic bag charges in England: will there be 'chaos' at the shops?

it's not hard to digest my brethren - you shop, you need bags (as you left all your good ones at home tut) so you pay 5p for them.. Simples!

Now what REALLY pees me off, is the charge here in Wales is for plastic bags right?
So why is it, when you go to a McDonald's (rare here as we don't really believe in it) and they ask you when in the drive-thru if you want a bag for 5p. Great.. but these bags are recycled paper and available to BE recycled, so why do they charge when it's for plastic bags to increase recycling and reduce plastic waste/use.. Not PAPER bags that are 1, recycled and 2, can be recycled again.

What gives??
bastids!

Your thoughts guys? esp our friends across the water in England....
Scotland and NI have been doing this, like us too - for years.

 

Genuinely people are saying they're confused on the news..

 

Hahaha
I have this image now of you strutting your stuff with shoes for show everywhere

Indeed Therapon, tell me about it! What annoys me here though, is when you do a big shop and have loads of bags from various different shops, it bloody adds up let me tell you... Creaming it they are!

 

It definitely reduced carrier bag usage here in Wales..
What you see more and more of, is like when we go to M&S or something, people doing their shopping are using canvass bags more and more? So like our M&S bags, Morrisons or Aldi's etc we use in other shops - you can buy large canvas ones and large thick plastic ones, so people are tending to reuse these more and more..

In that respect, less plastic carrier bags are being used, trust me in a years' time - you WILL see a difference and more people using their own bags or bags from other shops. So it does work, but by how much is totally dependent on how society in England adapts to it.

As I said, money wise - Wales raised 22 million pounds for charities and it DID go to charities.. That's gotta be a good thing?

 

Agreed... I am naturally suspicious and do worry if the media et al lie to us about where the money goes, I don't believe for one minute that it's all gone to charity!! I don't trust ANY government.. so I doubt it's 100% accurate and 100% been handed to charities.. As you say my friend, a game of wait and see.

 

Oh my God! Let me guess, male, 25 and below, wet behind the ears, knows it all.. thick as two short planks! (pun intended)

 

Haha - imagines you walking in with a tree trunk!
yeah can hear it.. jumped up little pr...