20p plastic bag tax

Cornucopia

I don't use carrier bags - neither disposable or reusable.   There are plenty of boxes available in Aldi & Lidl stores (perhaps fewer in other supermarkets).   These can be used for many weeks before they become tatty and they can then be recycled.

General_Grant

Cornucopia said:

I don't use carrier bags - neither disposable or reusable.   There are plenty of boxes available in Aldi & Lidl stores (perhaps fewer in other supermarkets).   These can be used for many weeks before they become tatty and they can then be recycled.

How do you transport the boxes between the store to your home?  Car or shopping trolley?
  
I use public transport and use plastic carrier bags - but have bought none.  I built up a stock prior to the 2015 introduction of the 5p charge - and had been re-using such bags long before that (remember when Sainsbury's offered a 1p refund for using your own plastic bag and Tesco gave a point?).
I would find it difficult to transport my shopping in cardboard boxes.

HillStreetBlues

Cornucopia said:

I don't use carrier bags - neither disposable or reusable.   There are plenty of boxes available in Aldi & Lidl stores (perhaps fewer in other supermarkets).   These can be used for many weeks before they become tatty and they can then be recycled.

I don't find them that useful as they normally have the front missing it's OK for a few items thou.

Cornucopia

General_Grant said:

Cornucopia said:

I don't use carrier bags - neither disposable or reusable.   There are plenty of boxes available in Aldi & Lidl stores (perhaps fewer in other supermarkets).   These can be used for many weeks before they become tatty and they can then be recycled.

How do you transport the boxes between the store to your home?  Car or shopping trolley?
  
I use public transport and use plastic carrier bags - but have bought none.  I built up a stock prior to the 2015 introduction of the 5p charge - and had been re-using such bags long before that (remember when Sainsbury's offered a 1p refund for using your own plastic bag and Tesco gave a point?).
I would find it difficult to transport my shopping in cardboard boxes.

Transported via car.    Probably not great for taking on a bus.  A cab would be okay.

I could see that you possibly could use a shopping trolley - maybe with two small boxes stacked one on top of the other.    Although if you had a shopping trolley, wouldn't you put the shopping in that?

jon81uk

Some goods have regulations on what a store can charge, so in Scotland & Wales there is minimum pricing on alcohol, full-sugar soft drinks have extra tax and single-use plastic bags have to be at least 10p.
But for most other things a store can charge whatever they like and if they want to charge for paper carrier bags thats up to them.

sevenhills

sarah1972 said:

I use 2/3 dog poo bags daily but they are compostable 

I have bought various compostable type bags in the past, but I am not sure if they are any better.

Especially if bought online, how can we trust what it says, they appear to be the same.

Cornucopia

HillStreetBlues said:

Cornucopia said:

I don't use carrier bags - neither disposable or reusable.   There are plenty of boxes available in Aldi & Lidl stores (perhaps fewer in other supermarkets).   These can be used for many weeks before they become tatty and they can then be recycled.

I don't find them that useful as they normally have the front missing it's OK for a few items thou.

I usually put a large item across the front of the boxes.  

MrsStepford

Husband has small foldable plastic crates for the car and a LOT of cotton or jute/hessian tote bags. We recycle cardboard boxes or use them to post stuff to my cousin in Canada. She thought that I was ordering food from Iceland the country, so I bought her an Iceland bag for life. I wrap her gifts in bags for life and plastic carrier bags so that the presents stay dry and then she gets to use them out shopping. 
  

molerat

jon81uk said:

Some goods have regulations on what a store can charge, so in Scotland & Wales there is minimum pricing on alcohol, full-sugar soft drinks have extra tax and single-use plastic bags have to be at least 10p.
But for most other things a store can charge whatever they like and if they want to charge for paper carrier bags thats up to them.

Paper and other "plant based material (other than cotton, flax, hemp, jute or sisal)" single use bags are included in the Scottish bag tax rules.  That is why you don't get your big paper carrier in Primark.

https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/resources/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-scotland

jon81uk

molerat said:

jon81uk said:

Some goods have regulations on what a store can charge, so in Scotland & Wales there is minimum pricing on alcohol, full-sugar soft drinks have extra tax and single-use plastic bags have to be at least 10p.
But for most other things a store can charge whatever they like and if they want to charge for paper carrier bags thats up to them.

Paper and other "plant based material (other than cotton, flax, hemp, jute or sisal)" single use bags are included in the Scottish bag tax rules.  That is why you don't get your big paper carrier in Primark.

https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/resources/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-scotland

Yes I forgot Scotland have stricter bag rules too.

But the overall point still stands, the governments state some things must have a minimum price, for everything else the retailer can choose whatever price they like.