MSE News: Tesco to replace 5p single-use bags with 10p bags for life

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Tesco will stop selling 5p single-use plastic bags on Monday 28 August, replacing them with 10p bags for life...

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'Tesco to replace 5p single-use bags with 10p bags for life'

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spanglish

But when you do forget your own bags, doesn't everyone use the 5p bags as bin liners afterwards. Surely the 10p bags are more wasteful as they are too good for rubbish and are just as likely to be forgotten next time

jon81uk

spanglish wrote: »

But when you do forget your own bags, doesn't everyone use the 5p bags as bin liners afterwards. Surely the 10p bags are more wasteful as they are too good for rubbish and are just as likely to be forgotten next time

My bin is about 5 times bigger than a carrier bag so I use black bin bags for it.Therefore on the rare occasion I don't have a reusable bag with me the single use ones go in the cupboard just in case I need a bag for something. But the cupboard is getting quite full!

System

I work in retail and we get customers that have never brought in their own bags. If they were £1 each, they still not bother to bring their own bags

I_luv_cats

spanglish wrote: »

But when you do forget your own bags, doesn't everyone use the 5p bags as bin liners afterwards. Surely the 10p bags are more wasteful as they are too good for rubbish and are just as likely to be forgotten next time

Daily scoops of the kitty litter also requires a carrier bag (along with waste paper basket and small bins etc.) as pedal bin liners are too thin.

Something weird as Tesco instore bags are thick yet the delivery ones are thin.

A._Badger

I wonder if anyone has been keeping score of the millions of sales of bin liners that have taken place since this began? Better still, accurate figures for the square footage of high density polyethylene and PVC being produced and sold?

spanglish

jon81uk wrote: »

My bin is about 5 times bigger than a carrier bag so I use black bin bags for it.

We have small bins in every room and line them all with carrier bags for ease of emptying. Since they started charging we never have enough

VoucherMan

spanglish wrote: »

But when you do forget your own bags,

What do you do when you forget to take money with you?

Maybe I'm just too organised, but If I'm going shopping all have equal importance - what I want, what I'm going to pay with, and what I'm going to carry it in.

vikingaero

Tesco will also lose more baskets and trolleys as the chav (working class chavs, middle class class and upper class chavs) will refuse to pay the 10p on their childish principles.

jimbo747

The Sainsbury's 5p bags are much better, as are the m&s ones. If going to coop or Tesco I only bother with the 10p ones, and I'm one of the people above who keeps forgetting to bring their own or use them as bin bags.

Norman_Castle

spanglish wrote: »

doesn't everyone use the 5p bags as bin liners afterwards.

No. Never have done.

spanglish wrote: »

We have small bins in every room and line them all with carrier bags for ease of emptying. Since they started charging we never have enough

Do they all need liners? How often do you put wet or dirty rubbish in a living room bin? If supermarkets had never offered free plastic bags its unlikely you would have started lining every bin in the house with a bag. You habitually lined every bin because they were free and you had an abundance of them.