"Tim C." wrote in message
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Following up to "'Mike'" :

"Tim C." wrote in message
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Following up to Sacha :

Nobody forces you to take a bag! If you don't, they save money, after
all.
Take the till receipt and smile nicely. That's it.

Not according to 'Mike' who seems to think that forcing you to take a
bag
is the norm.
--
Tim C.


Please repost where I have said it's 'the norm'



Your post of 25.01.2007 at 11:45 or thereabouts:

Don't you think I have tried? Only to be told by the shop assistant, "We
have to do that and we have to put the receipt inside the bag to prove
you
have purchased it and you have not shop lifted it"

I've done it often in the UK, no problem whatsoever.

So have I, but it is not the norm. The norm is as I have stated.



--
Tim C.

Thank you. I knew I had posted it somewhere and couldn't find it.

I have found this to be the case in many 'small corner shops' which try to
support and also many large combines such as Woolworths where shoplifting
must be a big problem.

Yes I have had my request not to put things in a bag because of the waste,
but I feel that your paranoia over such a small thing as a paper bag shows
you have a bit of a problem with life :-(((

As an afterthought, do you really believe that such a small item as a paper
bag and use thereof will 'save the world'???????

Mike


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Following up to "'Mike'" :

As an afterthought, do you really believe that such a small item as a paper
bag and use thereof will 'save the world'???????

No, not on it's own, but it's the combined effect, and wore importantly the
attitude to other issues that might well make a difference. Even the
longest journey starts with the first small step.
--
Tim C.

Following up to "'Mike'" :

As an afterthought, do you really believe that such a small item as a
paper
bag and use thereof will 'save the world'???????

Maybe not, but the paper bag will rot down if left outside, the plastic bag
will be there forever, unless you shop at the Co-Op!

Following up to "Alan Holmes" :


Following up to "'Mike'" :

As an afterthought, do you really believe that such a small item as a
paper
bag and use thereof will 'save the world'???????

Maybe not, but the paper bag will rot down if left outside, the plastic bag
will be there forever, unless you shop at the Co-Op!

Hence the horrendous fines for using plastic bags in some parts of India
now.


Battle of the bag
11 September 2004
From New Scientist Print Edition.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...f-the-bag.html

"In 2002, Bangladesh took a more drastic approach, bringing in a total ban
on the production and sale of polyethylene and introducing a £5 on-the-spot
fine for using a plastic bag. If a blanket ban seems a little extreme, it
was prompted by more than just green thinking. In a country with limited
waste disposal and virtually no bins, most of the 10 million or so plastics
bags used every day were dropped in the street, then washed into rivers and
sewers where they choked the country's drainage system. The Buriganga
river, which flows through the capital Dhaka, was left almost dammed by
plastic bags, and blocked drains are widely held responsible for the
devastating monsoon floods of 1988 and 1998. In the two years since the
ban, the once floundering jute-bag industry has been resurrected and street
children are reportedly doing a roaring trade in handmade paper bags made
from newspaper and torn-up exercise books. A resurgence of rebel
plastic-bag manufacturers this year has prompted a government crackdown,
with manufacturers facing up to 10 years in jail and a fine of £9000.

The government of the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is also taking
a hard line. There, being caught in possession of a polyethylene bag could
get you seven years behind bars and a £1000 fine."
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." wrote in message
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Hence the horrendous fines for using plastic bags in some parts of India
now.


Have you been to India lately?

I was there during my World Cruise last year and the fines don't seem to be
working, 'if' they were supposed to be applied in Cochin or Bombay.

The places was filthy.

Mike


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