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Asda's Policy on Free Bags
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Don't know where you live but i don't pay for carrier bags. Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys, Co-op all free.
Likely scotland (unless wales and/or northern ireland have a charging policy too).
Minimum charge of 5p for every bag (whether paper or plastic and regardless of size).
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0 -
I was surprised to learn that Asda no longer gives out free small bags to put pre-packaged meat and chicken products into when you purchase these there.
How many times do these packaged products leak blood etc. from them.
Surely our health is being put at risk due to this.
Actually this is a good point:
Even the OUTSIDE of packaging on chicken can give you a food bug- 3/4 of shop chickens are contaminated with campylobacter bacteria
- They cause diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and fever
- Around 7 per cent of packaging is contaminated on the outside
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx0 -
pendragon_arther wrote: »Actually this is a good point:
Even the OUTSIDE of packaging on chicken can give you a food bug- 3/4 of shop chickens are contaminated with campylobacter bacteria
- They cause diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and fever
- Around 7 per cent of packaging is contaminated on the outside
Did you really just quote a Daily Mail article as fact?
This doesn't end well...0 -
pendragon_arther wrote: »Actually this is a good point:
Even the OUTSIDE of packaging on chicken can give you a food bug- 3/4 of shop chickens are contaminated with campylobacter bacteria
- They cause diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and fever
- Around 7 per cent of packaging is contaminated on the outside
Poor personal hygiene is what causes vomiting and diarrhoea!0 -
And germs transferred onto other packaging while shopping?
Unless you intend on eating packaging or you have poor personal hygiene it isn't a problem. My packages are often covered in meat juices at the butchers as I don't eat carrier bags and I wash my hands it isn't a problem.0 -
Unless you intend on eating packaging or you have poor personal hygiene it isn't a problem. My packages are often covered in meat juices at the butchers as I don't eat carrier bags and I wash my hands it isn't a problem.
If you buy a bag of sweets, do you wash your hands between opening the bag and eating the contents?0 -
Excessive hygiene measures will always compromise your immune system in the long run.0
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Probably depends on the checkout assistant. When I worked sometimes on checkouts (not ASDA) I would only give the little bags out to who asked for them.
I had a couldn't be a*sed attitude, sorry.
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