What will Asda do with carrier bags?

cattie

I was told this week that Asda have stopped stocking carrier bags & this week offering free bags for life.

A good move I thought, but then started to wonder what on earth will happen to the hundreds & thousands of Asda carrier bags that must be piled up in boxes in warehouses all over the country. Are they destined for a landfill somewhere?

Any idea's from people here, perhaps somebody in the know?

mgardner

cattie wrote: »

I was told this week that Asda have stopped stocking carrier bags & this week offering free bags for life.

A good move I thought, but then started to wonder what on earth will happen to the hundreds & thousands of Asda carrier bags that must be piled up in boxes in warehouses all over the country. Are they destined for a landfill somewhere?

Any idea's from people here, perhaps somebody in the know?

Good question, maybe they have already run down their stocks?

chardonnay_2

they've been planning to do this and as the other poster mentioned they have most likely ran down stocks.

A._Badger

Have they? Well, that's yet another reason to stop shopping at Asda, which would win my vote as the supermarket sliding fastest downhill over the past few years.

I'm getting really very tired of all this nonsense. The amount of oil used in making carrier bags is negligible and there is no reliable evidence that disposing of them amounts to anything of significance. It's just (yet another) pointless gesture to fashion.

Bye bye, Asda.

mikeh1982

i'm pretty sure the key reason for stopping them is because otherwise supermarkets are going to be made to charge for all carrier bags, and they arent dissapearing altogether just yet. The last two weeks have just been a promotion - to encourage people to get enough BFL for their regular shopping, pretty sure you'll find the regular bags back on all checkouts (or at least under so you can request them if needed) by the start of next week

Teahfc

If they release boxes to pack your shopping in rather than say its a Health and safety /Fire hazzard then more people who drive to the stores I am sure would use them.

SailorSam

'Badger'......I don't think it's all about the amount of oil used in making the carrier bags, after all the BFL carriers are also plastic. I think it's got more to do with the waste and litter, people are less likely to leave a bag to blow around the streets if they have paid for it.

We use to have a Kwik Save here, and near the packing area they left all their empty boxes, as far as i know there was never a health and safety matter, lots of people took them and many may have ended upin the recycle or compost bins.

milliemonster

I must admit that I do think a lot of retailers are jumping on the bandwagon with this now, I do reuse bags (I have a load of those jute ones from tesco's) for my food shopping but I even got asked in New Look the other day if I needed a bag, I mean, I am not going to put brand new clothes in a shopping bag that I use for my food shopping where it could end up marked and then possibly ruined.

Why don't shops start producing bags out of recycled paper instead

Celia

Don't know about Asda and their used carrier bags - but think Waitrose used to use theirs to make things - am pretty sure the benches outside my old Waitrose were made from recycled carrier bags - honest! Don't think I dreamt it....lol

Celia

milliemonster wrote: »

I must admit that I do think a lot of retailers are jumping on the bandwagon with this now, I do reuse bags (I have a load of those jute ones from tesco's) for my food shopping but I even got asked in New Look the other day if I needed a bag, I mean, I am not going to put brand new clothes in a shopping bag that I use for my food shopping where it could end up marked and then possibly ruined.

Why don't shops start producing bags out of recycled paper instead

I always take a couple of my carrier bags that I already have and use them for when I get either things I don't want to get dirty - like books, clothes etc - or things that might make other stuff messy - like plants.

Just a thought...they don't take up much room in the bottom of your re-usable bag and solves the problem :cheesy:

danio_2

Retailers (not just supermarkets) are facing fines if they don't cut the amout of single use plastic bags that they give away by half