Carrier bag challenge

xxbutterflygirlxx

I've got that site bookmarked - amazing stuff isn't it? I did start cutting my bags into strips once but it took SOOOO long I gave up.

nearlyrich

badgermonkey wrote:

We have one of those Bettaware plastic things you can clip a bag to that makes it into a bin with a lid. It's inside the under-sink cupboard which is much nicer than having a bin out in the kitchen.

We have something similar, except it's not from Bettaware and my DH adapted it to make it stronger,only problem is the rest of the family sometimes use bags which are too small and guess who has to sort out the mess?

We used to always use boxes in Tesco but the new manager doesn't like boxes under the checkouts so it's bags or nothing, I only use the minimum number.I even tried the blue boxes for a while but I sometimes forgot to take them and then they phased out the special trollies.

soba

Been to work toaday and must have given away fifty carrier bags, easily. That's only in a small corner shop, so multiply that by the number of shops in the country and it's a lot of bags. I do think that if we were FORCED to charge for them, the reduction in usage would be dramatic.
I once asked one lady who ALWAYS asks for a bag what she did with them when she got home and she said she binned them. I think education needs to be stepped up, and I don't mean kids, I think they're slowly getting the message, but most of the adults I meet don't seem to be bothered.

toozie_2

When my daugher was little she was in a Morris Dancing Group, and the leader used to make "The Shakers" out of used carrier bags.

Can't remember how she did it, only that there was alot of complaining regarding sore fingers!!

Zziggi

Chipps wrote:

We use some as bin liners, but for shopping I mostly take my German "green bags" (They're not green literally, but are cotton shopping bags)

I love these! Everyone uses them in germany. I never understood why these aren't common in the UK. I lived there up until 1995 and i am still using my cotton bags that i brought over with me when i moved back here. 10 years on - can't imagine any carrier bags lasting that long.

chardonnay_2

at the moment i am sort of recycling carriers by giving them to customers at car boot sales, but i do ask if they need one first.

toozie_2

chardonnay wrote:

at the moment i am sort of recycling carriers by giving them to customers at car boot sales, but i do ask if they need one first.

I do that too, but only about 4 times a year!

I empty the dust out of my dyson into a carrier bag, tie the handles, and Bob's your uncle!

Kids take one to school on Gym day to put muddy trainer/football boots in, so the mud doesn't go on thier books.

Grew all my bedding plants from seed this year, haven't got a greenhouse, and the sunniest window sil would have been the lounge, and I didn't want trays, and trays there. So I layed loads of carrier bags down in my quite large and sunny porch, and put the trays on top, so I could water them without the porch floor getting soaked!

Queenie

soba wrote:

I do think that if we were FORCED to charge for them, the reduction in usage would be dramatic.

Years ago, all carrier bags were charged for! Consumers complained that they were paying for the company's advertising and then the revolutionary "free" carrier bags came in LOL

Seems it's not just carrier bags we want recycling, but recycling the charge for them too. :rotfl:

BTW, I'm not laughing at the "suggestion", simply how things turn around

Jet

SnowyOwl wrote:

It also irritates me a bit when I purchase fresh produce - I rarely use the clear plastic bags, but then the checkout assistant puts things into clear bags, though I ask him/her not to. There seems to be v.little awareness on the part of some check out assistants so the supermarkets don't seem to mind too much if they waste money on bags.

This drives me mad. I put all my fruit and veg in my trolley loose and yet when I get to the checkout, they put it all in little bags for me. If I had wanted them in bags, i would have put them in bags myself in the first place!

abbas_ali_2

Jet wrote:

This drives me mad. I put all my fruit and veg in my trolley loose and yet when I get to the checkout, they put it all in little bags for me. If I had wanted them in bags, i would have put them in bags myself in the first place!

I know what you mean but i suppose its to protect you as everything from dog food to chemicals goes on the checkouts so its best to put them in small bags. Generally its the bigger bags people need to stop using and its down to mainlythe customer to do this.