PLASTIC BAG CHARGE is good for ENVIRONMENT but let us hope that unscrupulous businessmen and market traders won't rip consumers off

3/8/2017

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ROBINGATE SACKING UPDATE: We will bring more on COP23 and Nair

As a life-long environmental campaigner and card carrying member of the United Kingdom GREEN PARTY, we welcome Fiji Government effort to clean up Fiji. We need to get into the habit of carrying BAGS:

From the BBC:

A new 5p charge for plastic bags was introduced in England on 5 October 2015. Here's what you need to know.

How does the levy work?

Shoppers are charged 5p for every new plastic bag they use at large stores in England. The charge applies only to shops or chains with 250 or more full-time employees. Plastic bags at airport shops or on board trains, planes or ships, are not included, and neither are paper bags. England was the last country in the UK to start charging for plastic bags.

Why do this?

The number of plastic bags handed out by supermarkets in England in 2014 rose to 7.64 billion - 200 million more than in 2013. Figures collected by waste-reduction body Wrap, on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), show that the figure has steadily increased for the past four years. In 2010 almost 6.3 billion were used.

Campaigners argue that the bags blight streets, spoil the countryside, and damage wildlife, seas and coastline. Ministers think introducing a 5p charge will stop shoppers using as many new bags, and encourage people to re-use old ones. The government hopes to see an 80% reduction in plastic bag use in supermarkets, and a 50% fall on the high street.

Over the next decade it hopes the charge will create: £60m savings in litter clean-up costs £13m in carbon savings The charge was a policy championed by the Liberal Democrats in the previous coalition government.

Where will the money go?

Initially to the supermarkets. This is not a tax and the money raised by the levy will not go to the government. Retailers can choose what to do with the proceeds of the charge, but they are expected to donate it to good causes. Over the next 10 years the government hopes the charge will raise £730m for such causes. Retailers will need to report to ministers about what they do with the money, and the government will publish this information each year.

Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34346309

http://fijisun.com.fj/2017/08/02/public-outrage-on-rubbish-grows/

http://fijivillage.com/news/Plastic-bag-levy-only-applies-to-Point-of-Sale-retailers---Consumer-Council-srk295

4 Comments

Ratu

3/8/2017 06:36:11 pm

Victor while we look forward to more exposures fm Fiji Leaks on Robin Nair and COP23 (Cover Up23) may I suggest u read up via google the case of how a U.K. Judge has identified 9 untruths in Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" documentary that can now be only viewed in British schools with additional corrective texts. Yet the current COP23 Predident is resorting to these Al Gore inspired climate change untruths ad infinitum in his increasingly alarmist statements on climate change. Let's not be influenced by propaganda but look at science to inform our judgements

Tomasi

3/8/2017 07:08:50 pm

Please, if you are listening Voreqe, hear me out, for the sake of all our people and our nation.

1. COP 23 is nonsense, a part of the global nonsense of global warming. Please educate yourself and learn more about the global deception going on today. Stop embarrassing yourself and our country.
2. You may choose to continue insulting our intelligence and embarrass yourself by travelling around the world pretending to talk about matters you do not understand. But we the people are fed up with your stupidity and utter ignorance about the real truths that matter to our life here in Fij and the Pacific.
3. I am willing to personally educate you on the sham of the UN, the huge hoax of climate change and the real threats to our lives here in the Pacific. Let me know through this column.
4. Tell Khaiyum to please stop the unbridled expressions of his gigantic ego and hypocrisy. We are fed up with him acting king and chief justice of your banana republic. Take heed of this humble request before it is too late.
5. The truth will always triumph, no matter how long it takes. Justice will always prevail because there is God in heaven who is ultimately in control.
6. Sa rauta mada na viavialevu, dokadoka, veivakaisini, butako kei na veivakalolomataki dous cakave tiko. Enough of your thuggery, deceit, arrogance, foolishness and exploitation of the people.
7. There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to build, even sand castles. But be prepared for its collapse. For as surely as you live today, you will die tomorrow.
8. By the same token, as surely as you constructed your evil empire on the sands of lies, deceit, thuggery and fear, you will see it soon crumple and collapse into a very sad dust heap. You and all your friends and families will live to regret the evil curse you have imposed on our nation.

Brownbagger

3/8/2017 08:15:16 pm

Just ban the use of plastic. Period. Here in California, they have banned the use of plastic bags. Just brown paper bags. However, there is a 10c charge if you need a bag for your groceries. So, bring your own bags. Simple.

Welcome Home

4/8/2017 05:46:55 am

The U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller now has a grand jury appointed. The 'writing is on the wall'. It has a special ring about it ..... grand jury!

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