5p bag charge - your views

Yolina

I was in Decathlon the other day (with bags) they have small carriers at 5p but when out of interest I asked for the price of their stronger larger bags also available at the till, I was told these are 50p - that's rather excessive IMO. Ikea blue bags are cheaper and considerably stronger (I've got some that are 15 years old, have been used a lot and are still going strong).

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Because only the determined idiots can get a trolley in the car, whereas most of the idiots can get a basket in

Kernow666

glider3560 wrote: »

You're allowed to take a trolley out of the store to your car, so why not take a basket to your car?

because they dont bringthem back or just take them home with them

MoneySavingNovice

DigForVictory wrote: »

Would some knowledgeable & kindly Welsh [or similarly more advanced culture] soul share what they use for getting rubbish into the bin? ......

Interesting question....personally I put all my rubbish in the one of the four different coloured bin sacks provided by the council - red for paper and card, purple for plastics and metals, green for food waste and gray for anything else apart from garden waste which goes in a brown reusable hessian sack.

It’s a good system and means that we don’t have those ugly wheely bins which seem to be a blight so much of the UK.

robin58

MoneySavingNovice wrote: »

Interesting question....personally I put all my rubbish in the one of the four different coloured bin sacks provided by the council - red for paper and card, purple for plastics and metals, green for food waste and gray for anything else apart from garden waste which goes in a brown reusable hessian sack.

It’s a good system and means that we don’t have those ugly wheely bins which seem to be a blight so much of the UK.

Interesting.

My council provides the following bags for rubbish.

Pink bags for recycling. You can put paper, tins, plastic and glass all in one bag.

White bags for cloths and shoes. (These do attract the people who nick them to make money).

Food bags and a blue bin to put them in, so they can empty it in a big bin they pull along.

Biodegradable Corn sacks which you have to pay for to get rid of garden waste.

Black bin bags which used to be given away by our council free but we now have to buy our own. (all to save £88,000 a year)

All this collected once a week with no restriction on what you put out. I recently put out 20 black bags of general rubbish and they took the lot!

YEP. a very good system which has been in place since the council started to recycle.

And observation on ugly bins is correct. A lot of the Blue food bins do get left out for a couple of days before they get taken in.

robin58

Kernow666 wrote: »

because they dont bringthem back or just take them home with them

How long will it be before we have to put a £1 coin in a slot on the basket before we can take it around the supermarket.

Seriously, don't the people who take these baskets realize how much they cost to the supermarket and all our food bills when they pass the cost of replacing them into our food bill.

All because they are too tight to buy a 5p bag.

System

robin58 wrote: »

How long will it be before we have to put a £1 coin in a slot on the basket before we can take it around the supermarket.

Seriously, don't the people who take these baskets realize how much they cost to the supermarket and all our food bills when they pass the cost of replacing them into our food bill.

All because they are too tight to buy a 5p bag.

I see trolleys with £1 release locks abandoned in housing estates, before the bag charge. With the pound still in. I used to have a key which I could release the coin. Lost it.

no1catman

All you would need to do is wheel it back to the store - get the £1.00 when you link to other trolleys - simple.

System

no1catman wrote: »

All you would need to do is wheel it back to the store - get the £1.00 when you link to other trolleys - simple.

One trolley was about two miles from the store.

mel48rose

glider3560 wrote: »

You're allowed to take a trolley out of the store to your car, so why not take a basket to your car?

Probably cos people are actually stealing the basket. Where my partner works they have lost loads of em :eek: