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Stuff it - saving the planet is in the (packed) bag

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Vincent
Published date25 May 2021
Date25 May 2021
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
What am I on about? Another new variant? Mike Ashley leading a singa-long of Chas'n'Dave hits in the Strawberry?

No readers, another turning of the financial screw that makes it OK to pay for stuff that was, until recently, free for all.

Aye, I'm on about the fact that since Friday, we will all be charged an extra 5p for our plastic bags in shops. Aye 10p!

This is applauded by environmentalists and I can see their point, as it will hopefully cut their use even more.

In 2015, we started charging 5p per bag and saw a 71% drop in the number used by customers. The year 2020 saw the pandemic combine with cost to drop bag usage another 59%. Aye fair enough, but have they thought about the corresponding rise in radgieness rates that such another increase might cause amongst us otherwise law abiding common folk?

For a start the smug Jesmondista, hessian 'bag for life' brigade will have a field day of 'I told you soing' as they continue to look down at the planet-destroying placka bag plebs. (yah Hugo, probably voted for Brexit and Boris too!) Well, here's a newsflash for the fake hippies in their school run SUVs - your 'green' textile options are actually massively 'dirtier' to produce than the humble plastic carrier bag.

Indeed, you'd have to use your ethically sourced cotton carrier over 100 times for it to cancel out its massive carbon footprint, while a placka bag used just once again, becomes greener than an organic vegan who works on a wind farm.

The obvious solution, then, is to reuse our old plastic carriers when we tootle tappy lappy doon the shops, although there is one flaw in this plan that has been glaringly overlooked. Whoever remembers the freakin' things?

You have your groceries piling up as the lass or retired welder on the tills rapidly hoys them aside with the...

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