Darren’s Diatribe

When it was first announced that plastic shopping bags were to be banned, we started collecting them. They are exactly the right size to line the kitchen rubbish bin and they had the nice handles which you could tie together to keep it all together when you threw it in the big bin. We recycled around 80% of the bags we got when doing our shopping that way.

I have just opened a packet of bin lining bags to use for the first time. They are almost identical to the bags we used to get from the supermarket, except that now we have to buy them. It makes me wonder whether the ban really saves as much as they said it would.

The other problem with the bag ban is that I still forget to take my nice re-usable bags to the supermarket with me