I understood that the reason carrier bags were to be stopped in supermarkets was supposedly to be more enviroment friendly. (I.E ) no plastic laying rotting for years no fuel used to transport the bags to supermarkets ect.
Well am I the only cynical person in england at the moment, but I see this as a big con and someone somewhere is going to make a lot of money out of our mentality of follow the leader.
What i mean is most of the carrier bags are biodegradable anyway, (good for the enviroment )
I reuse as do lots of people these bags by putting my rubbish in then putting in dustbins. (so again good for enviroment )
Now we will have to pay for bags to use in our dustbins.
These bags will still have to be transported half way around the country for us to buy them.
Someone somewhere will make loads of money for themselves by selling them.
What difference has this made to the enviroment.
Now the next thing I could do is wrap my
rubbish in newspaper before putting in the bin, and as our food bins are only picked up fortnightly now the smell would be terrible,.
But I have found out I cannot do that as newspaper is recyclabe and must go in the recycle bin.
So now I will have to just pour all food waste direct into the bin and if I was a dustbinman I would not want to empty that/.
So if they had just left well alone I could have carried on using my free recyle carrier bags,knowing i was helping the enviroment and not making someone a millionaire through all the bags he or she will be selling now.

There's a German Company (Aldi) operating in Australia that doesn’t supply plastic bags and you have to supply your own bag(s).  I have a couple of 'Green' bags that I use for shopping.

I think it's terrible that you only get your rubbish picked up once a fortnight.  I always put perishable waste items in the freezer to stop them from smelling, and the night I put the bin out, I put them in the rubbish bin

When I say I put perishable items in the freezer, I mean fish, chops, fat that I cut off the meat, etc which I put into plastic bags then put them in the freezer.  If I buy a roast chicken, the bones and skin that’s left over, gets wrapped up and put into the freezer till my bin is ready to go out for collection


A few weeks ago, I must have put some fish scraps into my waste bin by mistake, and the smell the next day was quite repugnant.

I've got 2 freezers Dreamer, a small one under the fridge and a medium size one in the garage.  As I'm on my own, I cook a large pot of soup and divide it into individual serves (10) and freeze it.  I made some spaghetti bolognaise tonight and I have enough left over for 2 meals for later on.  Each time I cook now, I cook more than I need and freeze the rest.  It saves cooking every day