Plastic bag latest

Old_Git

FOREVER21 wrote: »

Purchased a pair of shoes in Charles Clinkard today and on paying for them was told that there would be a 5p charge for the plastic bag.
I had a reusable plastic bag but the box was too big to fit into the normal grocery type bag.

I said I would leave the box but was told that if I wanted to return the shoes they had to be in a box! so I had no choice, but to pay.

Now I realise it is only 5p, but it led me to think will I have to pay for a bag if I buy clothes from stores?

Surely this is not what was intended with the new rules. How could you be expected to put a coat for example in the reusable grocery type bag.

PS before any of the "green brigade" reply I always take my own bags when grocery shopping and have done for years.
But this I feel is plain silly are we now expected not only to have the normal size bags with us for groceries ,but also the larger size one for clothes?

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if you returned the shoes do you get the 5p back for the bag

LadyDee

Pollycat wrote: »

I've never seen any 'smaller bags for life' - only the large ones that cost and have cost for years 10p.

I have three different sizes of bags for life bought from Tescos over the past year or so.

cherylsurrey

Well thanks to this thread I have saved some money, joined topcashback bought a pair of boots from Deichman, got 15.75% cash back and saved my self a trip to the shops, and they will arrive in free packaging(which I will recycle). I cant believe I had never heard of this before, big thanks to Nick_C

KxMx

cherylsurrey wrote: »

I also now do most of my shopping online, and now, for the first time in years, had to go and buy bin liners for my kitchen waste bin, which I had lined for free for years with the free shopping bags. I had always assumed that's what most people did with them, that and using them to clean up after the dog.


Paying for bags sounds lovely and green, but all it does is get people to buy bin liners instead of using the free bags, so same amount of plastic being used. Pity the government didn't get the shops to stop over packaging their products instead, far more green.

I totally agree about the Government failing to act on over packaging.

I like you re-used the bags and now need to buy bin liners.

Before it came in I broadly supported the change with the above reservation.

Since the charge came in i've really come around because being in a shop queue and seeing virtually no-one taking a bag is wonderful.

Because alongside people like you & me who re-used this resource, an awful lot didn't and were wasteful with it.

My local shop would get a huge delivery of bags and they'd just be gone so quick with people getting 1 or 2 items and demanding a bag. I find it hard to believe people with that attitude went on to re-use them!

mttylad

Teacher2 wrote: »

Buy stuff from the internut! It comes packaged for free.

Oh no it does not, Iceland charged my wife for the bags food was delivered in when she made an interweb order, no option to not have bags

Lord_Baltimore

Errant husbands: If your wife finds your g/f's underwear in the glovebox of your car, simply say you have been to M&S shopping for her xmas lingerie and that you refused to pay 5p for a placky bag.

Good luck with that one.

Pollycat

LadyDee wrote: »

I have three different sizes of bags for life bought from Tescos over the past year or so.

So if the large bag-for-life is 10p, how much did the smaller ones cost?

nothingbutepic

Yes agree with you. If he put his shoes in box, so there is no need of bag for it.

Pollycat

nothingbutepic wrote: »

Yes agree with you. If he put his shoes in box, so there is no need of bag for it.

A pair of shoes in a bag or a pair of shoes in a box in a bag will be much easier to carry than a pair of shoes in a box.

pelirocco

londonlydia wrote: »

To be honest this 5p thing hasn't changed my habits, as I just pay for the bags. I still use them as bin bags you see, and now Co-Op does 'thicker' standard bags, I do wonder if this will cause more issues going to Landfill than the cheapy ones they did previously.






Personally, I think it would need to be 50p per bag before I started to think about changing my shopping habits. I say habits, because it's not the fact I purposely don't take bags, it's just it's always spontaneous when I decide to do my shopping. I will pop in 3 times a week rather than one big shop, as I never know when I'll be home due to work and doing 1 big shop just causes me to waste food otherwise.

You are right , 5p is neither here nor there . For people to seriously stop buying bags they would have to be priced very high , or banned , but that's going to companies under and would cause job losses , so that's not going to happen .

Another way of reducing plastic waste would be to intoduced a paper bag only rule , but again thats going to be costly in terms impact on companies that produce these bags ..........Unless of course all the bags are produced abroad and there will be no impact on the UK job market