Carrier Bag use in Scotland

BobQ

So Scottish takeaways cannot reuse customer bags in the kitchen, but takeaway providers cannot stop you putting the food in your bags.

Is there no end to the way some firms will go to make a profit....



http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/2015/case352-takeaway-will-not-allow-customers-to-use-their-own-carrier-bags.htm?ebul=hsegen&cr=7/23-mar-15

bod1467

If you're buying a takeaway for £5+, why are you even worried about 5p for a bag?

Rolandtheroadie

bod1467 wrote: »

If you're buying a takeaway for £5+, why are you even worried about 5p for a bag?

The charge was brought in to save the world , just paying the extra 5p defeats the purpose.

System

If they are claiming there is a valid reason for using their own bags such health/hygiene and they must bag it then there should be no charge for it.

I am assuming the Scottish rules are the same as Welsh

cliffsgirl

Bags from food takeaways are free in northern ireland.

sweetme

Ive never been charged for a bag from the Chinese/Indian takeaway.

bap98189

BobQ wrote: »

So Scottish takeaways cannot reuse customer bags in the kitchen, but takeaway providers cannot stop you putting the food in your bags.

Is there no end to the way some firms will go to make a profit....

I fail to see how anyone is making a profit here. There is nothing to say that you can't put the takeaway into your own bag at the counter.

Refusing to allow customer bags in the kitchen seems perfectly reasonable to me. It's a food preparation area and they can't possibly know how clean those bags are.

geerex

Its just another silly wee policy from a silly kid-on wee "government".
Nanny state SNP. Thank god the independence voters didn't win.

ElefantEd

geerex wrote: »

Its just another silly wee policy from a silly kid-on wee "government".
Nanny state SNP. Thank god the independence voters didn't win.

Well, you'll be glad to hear that a similar charge will soon be introduced in England. So wherever you live in the UK, it'll cost you if either forget to bring or can't be bothered to re-use your own.

As for being part of the so-called nanny state, it scarcely qualifies. No-one is stopping you buying as many new plastic bags as you like. All that's happening is that there is legislation to encourage people to re-use them rather than waste scarce resources. This may not have any impact on someone such as yourself, but it is a little nudge which has an impact on a large number of people.

I suspect you will find that the cost of the plastic bags was simply rolled up into the cost of goods anyway, so they weren't really free; now you only pay for what you use, the opposite of a nanny state!

molerat

The one that confuses me is if I buy 4 bottles of wine I can either pay 5p for a plastic or paper carrier bag but can take them in a cardboard bottle carrier free :rotfl:

Can takeaways not use the food hygiene exemption ?

bod1467

molerat wrote: »

Can takeaways not use the food hygiene exemption ?

Probably. But I guess it'll mean additional paperwork that they'll need to manage (everything of this nature has a bureaucratic element) so it's likely easier for them to simply charge.