Plastic bags are very convenient, stronger and can also be reused as trash bags. Cloth bags are a health hazard, as they get reused and end up with bacteria. Perhaps you should go to a landfill to compare plastic bags vs paper bags, which one is the bigger problem.

The Earth goes through constant climate change cycles and has done so throughout its history. The exact mechanism is not completely understood but appears to be related to solar activity and the axial tilt of the Earth as it orbits the sun - not human activity. Note that the Earth is apparently at the end of the current warming cycle and should begin cooling soon (“soon” in geological terms).

It’s clear global warming/climate change is real. It’s equally clear the > current < warming cycle has been going on since the last ice age and that’s why the Sahara was grassland 10,000 years ago but is desert today + has been desert for centuries. The fact the current warming trend started long before there was any industry and when there were hardly any people is good evidence humans are not the cause. It also means humans are not the solution.

All of the carbon tax/carbon offset BS is just robbery or extortion disguised as science. Countries like China and India LOVED the idea of carbon taxes/carbon offsets – but only when they could pretend to be “undeveloped”. Once it was pointed out both are horrific polluters of > every type < they suddenly weren’t so keen on the idea. Only the global Left and countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe still love the idea of carbon taxes.

The Left loves the idea because they are dedicated to destroying the West in general and the USA in particular. Getting the developed world to wreck its own industrial base is something they want. Having the West simultaneously give free guilt-money to countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe would just make it better.

Unfortunately, scientific research has been compromised by the politics of the subject. The academic community leans far to the Left, so researchers who “prove” human-caused global warming (AGW) are rewarded with more grants, but researchers who don’t “prove” AGW find themselves cut off.

The politics of the issue are a problem because we really do need to understand how the Earth works so we can anticipate, predict, and adjust. We also need to reduce actual pollution that is poisoning our environment, and countries like China & India should not get a free ride.

None of that has anything to do with global warming.

Lately it seems that every environmental problem is being called global warming or at least linked to it, when in fact global warming is related only to carbon dioxide gas given off by burning fossil fuel and nothing else. Global warming is not related to recycling, plastic bags or bottles, water pollution, or paper.

They do that in a town in the UK, Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.

I wonder if they have nine bins in the house as well or whether they just have one and divide it up the evening before the collection team arrives? I wonder if they send nine trucks round to pick it all up? Where do you keep all those bins during the week?

A pound to a penny, no-one has done any accurate analysis of the advantages and disadvantages.

I am sure it is all a very good idea.