Thursday 1 November 2007

Witches' knickers?!

If you're a regular Geogtastic visitor, you will no doubt already know my feelings about plastic bags... I've written about them a number of times - and Yr8 did some fantastic work on plastic bags last year... But I've never, until this evening, heard them referred to as "witches' knickers"!! According to an excellent new article from the BBC though, that is what they are called in Ireland (where, by the way, they'll cost you 9p each in a supermarket).

Councillors in Brighton and Hove recently voted on a bag ban, asking shops to stop handing them out to customers, and the village of Modbury in Devon have been pleased with their bag ban trial and have just made the ban permanent.

Check out the BBC article to find out more - including 10 arguments FOR the plastic bag... And a great video of A Day in the Life of a Plastic Bag...

Here's a picture of the superb plastic bag collage that 8HCh (now 9NSq) produced last year...

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yo!
Hi!

I'm Irish.

We definitely don't call them witches knickers. Never heard of that :D

Yeah, Irelands 9p(15c) levy was increased last year to 22c which is probably about 20p at today's rates.

Did you know we had the smoking ban first too?

I wish that every country would have that, it's such an annoyance to go into a bar filled with smoke :(

18 January 2009 at 04:18
Miss Ellis said...

Thanks for your comment Derry!

Interesting to hear that the tax has increased. Quite a few places here charging for them now, or at least not having them displayed at checkouts so that you have to ask.

Yep, smoking ban is good!

18 January 2009 at 04:33

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