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Says a lot that it’s almost 10 months since the last post in here, but regardless - this is the right thing, and goes against the grain of the usual Tory ‘cheap is best’ mantra.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... in-england

Years after they were banned almost everywhere else...

Banned in the EU in 2021 (2016 in France...)

No praise here.

I'm in favour of the ban.

Better late than never I suppose.

I wonder what's driven the change of heart to embracing "green crap".
Could it be simple Tory core nostalgia for wooden forks (which most chippies still use)?
Good luck eating Indian or Chinese with one of those... but then that's probably "foreign muck" anyway.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:36 pm Years after they were banned almost everywhere else...

Banned in the EU in 2021 (2016 in France...)

No praise here.

Mrs Watch has just said exactly the same thing

Wasn’t really intended as praise as such. But given they hadn’t done it, and still didn’t have to, I’ll give them a small nod.

Didn’t pick it up from the Grauniad article, but does the “ban” include the plastic tupperware type containers that nearly all takeaway food outlets use for their food? Takeaways used to all come in foil boxes with cardboard lids, but now it’s all knocked out in them plastic containers. We must have fucking hundreds of the bloody things in a cupboard in our kitchen’cos we wash them and try to re-use them to store food in, but you can only use so many of them.

No it doesn't.
Here we wash and recycle them.

Quite a few takeaway places here have gone over to cardboard, but we're told not to recycle the really greasy stuff, and I've no idea how curry in cardboard is going to work...

In France they have stopped the use of all plastics in fast-food restaurants, but our lot haven't gone that far.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:12 pm We must have fucking hundreds of the bloody things in a cupboard in our kitchen’cos we wash them and try to re-use them to store food in, but you can only use so many of them.

They’re well handy if you can find to right lid to fit

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:12 pm Didn’t pick it up from the Grauniad article, but does the “ban” include the plastic tupperware type containers that nearly all takeaway food outlets use for their food? Takeaways used to all come in foil boxes with cardboard lids, but now it’s all knocked out in them plastic containers. We must have fucking hundreds of the bloody things in a cupboard in our kitchen’cos we wash them and try to re-use them to store food in, but you can only use so many of them.

The plastics are a fucking nightmare from inside the kitchen, too.

You'll get x amount of tubs in every month, and they'll be grand, until the next month, when the same support will send you the same amount of just slightly different tubs, so the lids from your old ones don't fit the new ones. It's typical of any cheap dropship product, but I shudder to think of how much plastic I've had to chuck out of workplaces over the last 20-odd years.

Just to add: the card and foil stuff is a lot better, has none of the above issues. It's just more expensive, so places (especially lower end places) don't bother.

Considering what some of the others did and remained Tory MPs.

Someone I knew many years ago who worked for HMRC told me that if they were investigating a takeaway they'd look first at the amount of containers they bought. Every day's a school day

Roger Gale puts some arseholes back in their box.

Braverman, Oakeshott and Bolton blown away by Tory MP Roger Gale

That Bolton's a proper shit, isn't he?

Not something she’d like to be doing but migraine is a real bugger for sufferers so good for highlighting it despite knowing you’ll get a load of shitty comments. Best of luck for a migraine free future. Hopefully, away from politics.

Levelling up minister Dehenna Davison has quit her government role, saying she has been "battling with chronic migraine". https://news.sky.com/story/levelling-up ... ext%20year

Hope her migraines get better, but Davison quitting as a minister and an MP is unequivocally good news in every respect.

No need to add her to my Portillo Moment candidates list.

The only thought/tin foil hat, I had, was being as her constituency is near Teesside, and she was in the Levelling Up Ministry (i.e. giving money to our mates), is that her name may well crop up in connection with the Houchen shenanigans