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

Caddyman

Both I and the wife carry those very strong shopping bags with the canvas type handles in our cars and so when we're out, we've always got access to them. If supermarkets were really that interested in stopping sales of single use bags, they'd just stop stocking them in their stores or charge a quid each for them. There shouldn't be any need to stock/sell plastic shopping bags at all, even so called toughened repeat use bags.

It's all about mindset at the end of the day, and those people that still go shopping clutching armfuls of harmful plastic waste, should perhaps for just once, think about the alternative bags available at the tills that rarely cost more than a pound and can last for months or even years.

Stompa

spanglish wrote: »

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

Sometimes yes, but it's an expensive way of buying bin liners, when you can get bags specifically designed for the purpose (with no holes) for little more than 1p each.

Norman_Castle

Caddyman wrote: »

It's all about mindset at the end of the day, and those people that still go shopping clutching armfuls of harmful plastic waste, should perhaps for just once, think about the alternative bags available at the tills that rarely cost more than a pound and can last for months or even years.

My regularly used 10p bags last for years. When these fail I'm going to weave my own bags from recycled hemp mixed with plughole hair.

db2016

in household bins (such as bedroom or other non food places) i use the abundance of charity bags that get put through the door, free bin bags!

no good for kitchen though as most have holes, and, bin juice, eurrgh!

everyone on about bags and environment, what about the over packaging on food itself! not that i particularly care about such issues, there's bigger ones!

tgroom57

Disaster ! I rely on the Tesco 5p bags (and similar) because my kitchen is so small I don't have room for a bin. I hang the bag on a cupboard handle, tie handles and outside to the big bin when full.

My hallway fills up with the useless heavy plastic bags because my daughter always buys more and never reuses them. I've had to throw them away ! The charge for these should be at least 50p to allow for disposal.

Bad Tesco. I shall have to talk nicely to someone who has home deliveries.

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Doom_and_Gloom

Most supermarkets sell 40 packs of pedal bins with handles that work out cheaper than 5p per bag. Why buy a 5p bag for shopping? Surely you don't need a full weeks shopping amount of bags to bag up a weeks worth of rubbish. If you do you need to work out why as that is excessive. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Use cloth bags you can add to a wash or bags that you can wipe down after using. OH and I have been using the same bags for well over 9 years now. We only bin things that need to be binned, reducing the amount of bins needed in the first place.
Everyone should be working out how to reduce their dependency on plastics. Yes supermarkets over package but that shouldn't stop people from doing their bit to.
To be honest I think they should get rid of the 5p and 10p plastic bags and simular altogether. The more robust, bigger bags are better and although yes there are those that are plastic but they can easily get 10+ years out of them.

It's nearly been 2 years and people are still not remembering bags. It is ridiculous. Take keys, money etc, you can remember bags too.

mro

Another gimmick publicity stunt based on fake stats.

mro

footyguy wrote: »

Carrier bags

Were 5p, will now be 10p at Tesco

Re-usable carrier bags are only 5p in Sainsburys, and have been for many, many months.
I've not seen any single use ones in their stores since the charge was introduced
(but I think they still use single use ones for home delivery)



Every little helps!

It's a paradox that these bags Sainsburys introduced are rubbish/useless !

This is what happens when you replace classic plastic bags which fulfill their function with rubbish.

jenniewb

Stompa wrote: »

Sometimes yes, but it's an expensive way of buying bin liners, when you can get bags specifically designed for the purpose (with no holes) for little more than 1p each.

Where are these 1p bags? The cheapest value bag I've found (which is smaller than a Tesco 5p bag) is 2p per bag and I've tried doubling them up and they still split if I use them for anything with an edge (which would include a carrot skin, an apple core, tin foil, a can egde....) so I tried tripling them up, but the air inbetween the bags just prevented this from working.


I can use the bags, doubled up, as a toilet bin, but not as a main bin. If I want to buy bags for a main bin, they work out as costing 6p+ per bag. And most of them are so large that I end up throwing away wasted bag (typically a carried bag will take me 3-4 days to fill which is just enough time before flies would start to gather, a larger bag and too any flies would be involved. From where I'm sitting, there isn't a replacement for the 5p bags unless I want to pay more.

System

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

It's nearly been 2 years and people are still not remembering bags. It is ridiculous. Take keys, money etc, you can remember bags too.

I never understood why people still are unable to remember their own bags. I have seen customers in supermarkets asking for bags as left them in the car! Why not pack at the car? May get one 5p bag for small items like stock cubes, packet sauce mixes, packs of painkillers.
If it rains or a strong gale, treat it as punishment.

What's this thing with people in social housing never bother to reuse bags? Had them going in my shop, buying one or two items and ask for a bag when they have three other bags (all new) with hardly anything in them. One example yesterday was one customer bought a box of tampons and a roll on deodorant. She could easily put them in another bag.

I have also seen them asking for a bag when buying nappies which has a handle - designed to be carried on their own.

Some people must have wasted £100 on bags since the bag charge