paying for plasitc bags

chou_123

I personally think it is good as it is a deterrent against wasting plastic.

However I note if you were buying loose vegetables/fruit they can't charge you for the plastic bag, so I guess if you wanted to get round the charge, make sure you always buy a loose banana or something!

Dave_C_2

Just re-use the plastic charity bags that come through your door. Oh wait - maybe they will ban them too.

Dave

fluffnutter

A._Badger wrote: »

Rubbish, Not having to provide 'free' bags allows supermarkets both to make more money and wrap themselves in a pious aura as the gullible watch the wrong hand.

One local to me even tries to greenwash itself by claiming how 'Green' it is by 'giving away' cardboard boxes. What they really mean is not having to pay for having their waste taken away.

There's one born every minute. Funny, we used to call that 'being a bit green' too.

For crying out loud, it's 5p for a bag, not extortion and deception. What paranoid, over-dramatic nonsense.

RadoJo

jb66 wrote: »

So they dont give us carrier bags so we buy bin liners, bit backwards and pointless

I don't understand this - they stop giving away plastic bags for free, so you have to purchase bin bags from them which are a) specifically designed for the purpose and b) an item on which they then make a profit. In what way is that backwards?

Kite2010

Will the supermarkets reduce the indirect levy they put on everything they sell to cover the costs of "free" plastic bags?

I think not, so they will charge you directly for the bag and indirectly

no1catman

jb66 wrote: »

So they dont give us carrier bags so we buy bin liners, bit backwards and pointless

Pointless, being the operative word in the sense in that Tesco are not allowed to give 'green' points when it starts for using your own bags.

Norman_Castle

Pointless, being the operative word in the sense in that Tesco are not allowed to give 'green' points when it starts for using your own bags.

Tesco "green" points are worth 1p per bag. Loosing these is unlikely to raise the RPI.

Dave_C_2

We use an Ikea carrier bag, 40p to buy.

It just fits nicely in the trolley and we fill it at checkout. Tesco awards us 5 green points for using it.

As we can get a week's shopping in the one bag it's easy to get into and out of the car.

In the dim and distant past one of the supermarkets (Asda?) used to sell these as "trolley bags" but they were discontinued for some reason.

Dave

mountainofdebt

Don't forget its not just your supermarket that will have to charge you - takeaways will also have to charge as will places like McDonalds.

Does anyone know how those self scan tills will work now - presumably it will mean that they won't be supplying bags on those sort of tills.

mountainofdebt

If Tesco aren't going to be issuing greenclub card points in wales because of this new charge, isn't that a little bit racial?

(yes I know I'm being petty but I see it as being discriminatory against one part of the UK)