What will Asda do with carrier bags?

stressedaah30

they had plenty to use when got my online order yesterday got enough bin liners for months

EssexGirl

Teahfc wrote: »

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.

I certainly would rather use boxes than plastic bags any day.

freebiequennie

paper bags would be such a good idea and cant be that expensive to make as primark use them.

we use bags for life and cotton bags but sometimes you do just nip into a shop unexpectadly and dont have a bag with you.

i think if people are reusing them for rubbish, shopping, dog poo etc then thats fine, people just binning them after taking shopping home is what needs to be stopped.

sparklylime

Paper bags are no better for the environment than plastic bags.

Making paper bags uses more energy than making plastic bags, it creates more pollution (both in terms of waterborne pollution and carbon emmissions)

More paper bags would mean more deforestation and also more pollution from all the machinary used in the process. Even when using recycled paper the process of recycling the paper uses up far more energy than it takes to recycle plastic.

Paper bags weigh more than plastic bags and take up more room meaning that more lorries are needed to transport them.

If they eventually end up in landfill paper bags take up more room than plastic and don't always decompose effectively.

Also paper bags are not especially practical in wet weather (which we have lots of :rolleyes:) unless they have a plastic coating.

So, considering this, I don't think plastic bags are the worst option. Paper bags seem to be just as bad for the environment. I use cotton bags when I do my shopping as I don't like being made to feel like an environmental criminal for asking for plastics ones!

krystal-divination

How will they deliver our shopping for online orders if no carrier bags ?

if they have to give us there boxes to unpack that will delay the delivery person.

Techno

It's not just the environmental cost of producing plastic carrier bags - apparently when they are in the sea they look like jellyfish to turtles who eat them; also the plastc pellets they are made from get dumped in the sea and eaten by the marine life and birds which doesn't do them much good - why do people moan about having to reuse carriers? Whatever they are made from

craftynutters

When there was a safeways we used to have crates that we took in when we went shopping and placed our shopping in them much easier to use and get in and out of the car than carriers. they stopped doing them but we still used to use them tesco tried it as well and they didnt sontinue think they should give it another try

DCFC79

craftynutters wrote: »

When there was a safeways we used to have crates that we took in when we went shopping and placed our shopping in them much easier to use and get in and out of the car than carriers. they stopped doing them but we still used to use them tesco tried it as well and they didnt sontinue think they should give it another try

sainsburys tried a similar idea a few years back with the blue boxes, we have 4 of them and we use them with the scan and pack system,

hilstep2000

(How will they deliver our shopping for online orders if no carrier bags ?

if they have to give us there boxes to unpack that will delay the delivery person.)

Krystal- I don't have carrier bags when Tesco deliver, and they give you green clubcard points if you do that. The shopping is just put in the boxes loose.

A._Badger

Techno wrote: »

It's not just the environmental cost of producing plastic carrier bags - apparently when they are in the sea they look like jellyfish to turtles who eat them; also the plastc pellets they are made from get dumped in the sea and eaten by the marine life and birds which doesn't do them much good - why do people moan about having to reuse carriers? Whatever they are made from

You might like to read this, from The Times - even Greenpeace don't believe the eco-myths:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3508263.ece