Free Bag For Life @ Asda - 5 old carrier bags required

eryn_kathleen

Denaria wrote: »

What about if you get your shopping delivered? They often put just 1 or 2 items in a bag on their own, which means you end up with zillions of bags each week and nowhere to keep them. Will the delivery man now be willing to COLLECT these next time he delivers, I wonder?? Otherwise they'll have to go out with the rubbish..... :-(

The Asda website (the link provided by OP) does say that you can just give your bags back to the driver of your next delivery.

LittleVoice

Does anyone know what happens to the used bags collected by Asda and Sainsbury's? If the bags are in any way near being in a decent shape - either for shopping or using as bin liners - then I would think it is much better environmentally to use them in that way rather than putting them in the recycle bins - cut out the middleman and do your own recycling!

Though Tesco delivery will take back used bags, what do they do with them? Is it just a green/PR exercise to overcome complaints from people who say you (Tesco) are using too many bags?

BruceyBonus

LittleVoice wrote: »

Does anyone know what happens to the used bags collected by Asda and Sainsbury's? If the bags are in any way near being in a decent shape - either for shopping or using as bin liners - then I would think it is much better environmentally to use them in that way rather than putting them in the recycle bins - cut out the middleman and do your own recycling!

Though Tesco delivery will take back used bags, what do they do with them? Is it just a green/PR exercise to overcome complaints from people who say you (Tesco) are using too many bags?

The Asda bags you supply for this promotion are put in a recycling box like the one at Tesco.

Personally, I use carrier bags in preference over "proper" bin liners as most are now biodegradable - meaning your rubbish gets exposed to the elements quicker when at landfill but most of all, they're free!

mrsd

Iwent to Asda today and recycled some carriers and got a voucher for a free bag for life. I didnt know thats what they were doing so it was an added bonus. In response to fishergill, I have been reading about the fact that there are still too many plastic carriers and the damage they are doing and have just bought a couple of "turtle bags" from the WWF website, they are really nice long handle string bags (bit like old fashioned ones) and are 2 for 9.99. We are having fun seeing how many uses we can find for them, the latest being a string vest in a play !!! our local theatre company are putting on and I am asst props manager.

Beate

We never take ASDA bags home as we come fully equipped with trolley and linnen bags (getting funny looks often enough but hey I am from Germany, we take recycling seriously). So I sent OH to ASDA today with 5 randomly picked carrier bags we had in the kitchen cupboard (can't avoid them all the time, can you). He was then told they had to be ASDA carrier bags. Great. So next time we go shopping we could just grab 5 of their bags from the till and carry them over to where they hand out the bags for life. Marvellously effective for the environment. And all that for a 5p bag?

Daniel.jones1989

Its any bags you can take back, im an asda greeter, and not alot of people know about this idea, i looked on the box there and the recycling is on till the end of the year, but the free bag offer is until the 21st of may i think it is, from what i read from the greeter gazette

surfsister

Daniel.jones1989 wrote: »

Its any bags you can take back, im an asda greeter, and not alot of people know about this idea, i looked on the box there and the recycling is on till the end of the year, but the free bag offer is until the 21st of may i think it is, from what i read from the greeter gazette

so you're a Greeter gazette reading geezer!

harryhound

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6570699.stm

BruceyBonus

My local Asda is still running this offer

KatieF

My local adsa finished the offer on monday I believe, but ooo they made me mad...

When I went in midweek I noticed the recycling bin near the entrance and thought it would be a good way of getting rid of some of my masses of carriers....On saturday it appeared to have gone, asked a member of staff and it had moved all the way along the tills to the end of asda thats not near entrance/exits/baskets/anything useful! which seems illogical......and then the guy handing out coupons is still stood near the entrance! (a good 100m away from the recycling bin)

Then i find out that its nigh on impossible to use your own bags with their self service tills.....grrr....