paying for plasitc bags

clemmatis

Jsameds wrote: »

Oh ok.

Well if you do all your shopping online then there are plenty of voucher codes around for £5 off £50, £10 off your first shop etc.

One £10 voucher and your carrier bag cost has been covered for a year.

As I already shop online, I can't get "first shop" vouchers.

But anyway, I just got an email from Sainsbury to say they've managed to get the Welsh Assembly to agree they needn't charge online shoppers for plastic bags till next year.

essex1990

clemmatis wrote: »

I couldn't work out why you thought Tesco giving me green points for not having bags would help me, when I need the food delivered in bags.

you don't NEED to order everything in bags because heres a trick you might not know if you order it as 'no bags' things like bleach and raw meat which needs to be bagged for hygiene reasons WILL be bagged. (source: i have worked for tescodotcom) Therefore you will only be paying for the bag which houses the raw meat, and the bag that houses your cleaning products (10p instead of a charge for every single bag for a whole delivery of shopping - which could be quite a bit more)

fluffnutter wrote: »

Here's an idea. Take your lidl bags with you when you go to Tesco.

i do actually! the whole thing about returning them under SOGA was a joke... but i think i might do it for a laugh and see what customer services has to say about the inferior build quality of their products (ie plastic bags)

I am tempted to go to tesco this week and just take a big ream of plastic bags (purely to use them for the purposes badger lady has specified) I will not be using my keep cool lidl bags for those purposes. As they are still free it is not stealing.

FYI - my local tesco have updated the software on the selfscan so it asks you if you have your own bag first you say yes, add it to the scales for it to try and 'tar' it or whatever it does BUT i already had shopping in my bag as when im in the town centre i get what i need then go to tesco last - because of the coldchain for fresh/frozen products and the fact that tesco is the closet shop to home. Which added another 10 minutes wait to my shopping for the attendent to come over and reset the machine - 1 person to 12 tills! no wonder why staff morale is so low in that place they get expected to do the work of several people for a much lower cost.

nzmegs

This whole thing really annoys me. Just 50 years ago plastic was not even part of our everyday life. Plastic bags were a thing of the future yet housewives shopped nearly everyday and all of them managed with either the brown paper bags given out by the retailer or they carried their own bags. I even remember paper bags being used in the 1970's and 80's. now we can't seem to manage without a plastic bag.

in my opinion it is easy to have a bag with you either kept in the car or even folded in your handbag. if you forget - the retailer should charge you simply because you have been irresponsible.Even better would be if the shops went back to paper bags and we all remembered to recycle them.

I have zero tolerance on this. there is no excuse...

Dave101t

i use a new plastic bag every day, anyone got the stats on pollution for bags vs the car journey to the shops?
alot of naive people think they are saving the planet with their special bags as they drive their 4 x 4's to the out-of-town supermarket.

johnnyboyrebel

I take my reusable bags bought from asda when shopping in my sainsburys Asda bags are a lot stronger.

fluffnutter

Dave101t wrote: »

i use a new plastic bag every day, anyone got the stats on pollution for bags vs the car journey to the shops?
alot of naive people think they are saving the planet with their special bags as they drive their 4 x 4's to the out-of-town supermarket.

In a similar vein, there's absolutely NO point making a special car trip to the bottle bank to recycle your glass.

Apparently it would take 10,000 years of glass recycling (based on the average household's use of bottles) to neutralise the carbon footprint of just one 2 mile car journey!

If you're going somewhere anyway, by all means, take the bottles too. But don't do a separate trip.

Jsameds

fluffnutter wrote: »

Apparently it would take 10,000 years of glass recycling (based on the average household's use of bottles) to neutralise the carbon footprint of just one 2 mile car journey!

Rubbish. A 2 mile car journey will produce around 1kg of CO2.

To offset this you'd have to recycle 3.17kg of glass.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_recycling

http://www.sceptreinternational.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=109

fluffnutter

Jsameds wrote: »

Rubbish. A 2 mile car journey will produce around 1kg of CO2.

To offset this you'd have to recycle 3.17kg of glass.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_recycling

http://www.sceptreinternational.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=109

I thought it sounded crazy too! They're not my stats!

All the same, still better to combine the recycling with a trip for other purposes. Or walk.

bap98189

Jsameds wrote: »

Rubbish. A 2 mile car journey will produce around 1kg of CO2.

To offset this you'd have to recycle 3.17kg of glass.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_recycling

http://www.sceptreinternational.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=109

It's not just about carbon emissions though. Making new glass requires raw materials. Mining less of those is also a good thing.

no1catman

bap98189 wrote: »

It's not just about carbon emissions though. Making new glass requires raw materials. Mining less of those is also a good thing.

And likewise it is not just about the bags in land fill sites, but the amount of sealife they kill off e.g. bags being mistaken for jellyfish by turtles, and sea birds, which then starve!