Exaclty lol I reckon it's the same up and down the country. As I mentioned the only way to reduce it all is to charge something like £3 for a proper sturdy bag and then folk will remember to take their bags with them when they go shopping.
****ed if i know mate but just think it is probably what they have / are used to plus the "pickers" seem to do it in sections i.e. bag for veg . meat fish . tinned and can lead to literally 2 small items in a full sized bag .
I still remember as a little kid, my mum always use to use cardboard boxes, when going to the supermarket. Don't know why that all stopped tbph. All the supermarket supplies come in boxes, it saves breaking the things down and having to recycle them, after just one use.
And bottle deposit schemes. Remember when the lorry used to come round with fizzy pop and you'd get 10p back on your empty bottles ? This isn't rocket science.
Lol yes we did. Along with Soda Stream fizz at home too. **** knows what chemicals and colours went into that ****e ?
Actually to be fair, that looks a damn sight better colour than some of the American fluorescent stuff i used to see!
Also, as you might know. In California (not sure about other states) you pay a tax on bottles and cans etc that you can redeem if you take it back to a recycling centre. Loads of homeless people use this as a way to scrape together an income by collecting other people's rubbish. There's an ethical issue there, but it does at least encourage recycling.
Coke bottles, beer bottles, milk bottles, they were all recycled. What the **** did we do ffs? Even in the days of the supermarket I remember the bags being paper. Wrappings were mostly paper as well.
Mental innit. The technology is as old as the houses, yet we've somehow ended up with Oceans stuffed full of plastic bottles.
The milk delivered by an electric vehicle as well ffs Household appliances weren’t largely disposable items, there was an entire industry built around repairing them. It all went to **** with the demise of the rental telly, I’m telling ya.
Planned obsolescence. One of our local councillors has set up a repair cafe down here. You can take your old radios, sewing machines, TVs, Toasters etc and volunteers there will get them working again
Exactly that mate, TV engineers can't fix todays stuff. It used to be dry joints and valves haha. With LED if an engineer took the back off he/she would have a coronary, or say it has to go into a workshop. Although I have heard of them changing a complete screen in the home, bolloxs to that.
Yup. I tried to repair something a couple of years ago, I can't even remember what it was now. But I suspected I probably needed a new resistor, so an easy bit of soldering. You couldn't even unscrew the ****er, it was designed not to be repaired, but instead just lobbed in the bin. On another note, there's a bloke who repairs fridges and washing machines near me. I took an old fridge there to be repaired and in his kitchen he's got an original Russian made fridge from the 1950's, still in full working order. Massive ****ing thing with chrome bolt locking handles. Looks like something you'd keep a corpse in....
I remember trying to repair some electrical device when I was a lad, until I forgot it was still plugged in. Trust me, it's fooking painful and far worse than a scene in Home Alone!
