What will Asda do with carrier bags?

ikkleosu

hilstep2000 wrote: »

(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.

Unfortunately, you are not allowed to do this if you live in a flat. Apparently it is against health and safety, as it causes the drivers injury carrying the large boxes up flights of stairs. So you HAVE to take the bags option.

eslick

true the government are pushing to reduce the use of bags but what about all of the other stuff that is badly packaged. We bought Kiwi fruits the other day and they were in a plastic box twice the size needed. There are more things to reduce first to help the environment but as bags seem to be the big thing at the moment

hilstep2000

Ikkleosu- I didn't know that!

pesky2

freebiequennie wrote: »

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.

Primark ones are rubbish, i only shopped there this christmas and got 2 bags of items from them, both solit crossing a major road, wd prefer strong plastic anyday

Fire_Fox

ikkleosu wrote: »

Unfortunately, you are not allowed to do this if you live in a flat. Apparently it is against health and safety, as it causes the drivers injury carrying the large boxes up flights of stairs. So you HAVE to take the bags option.

The vast majority of blocks of flats have a lift!

Torry_Quine

Fire_Fox wrote: »

The vast majority of blocks of flats have a lift!

You obviously haven't lived in a Scottish tenement! :rolleyes:

Enterprise_1701C

Was back in Farnborough Asda today and they were giving out the old free plastic carrier bags - seemed to be no shortage.

omnipotentstudenttype

A._Badger wrote: »

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.

A._Badger wrote: »

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

you might want to google 'plastic pacific island' (can't post links yet...)

non-biodegradable plastic bags and other plastic rubbish are an issue

A._Badger

I very much doubt if many carrier bags from the UK end-up in the Pacific. Landfill, maybe, which as a commentator to that Times article rightly points out, wouldn't be the case if eco-freaks hadn't stopped them being burned to generate electricity - a much better use for them.

TroubleGum_2

I used to get really dodgy looks, eye rolling and sighing when I started bringing in old bags to re-use about 6 years ago.
I was even once told I had to put my groceries into the shops branded poly bag so that Secruity wouldnt stop me for shoplifting!
LOL
Times change