ECO Plastic bags policies?? The Downsides?

cwp500

CCStar wrote: »

It make me buy less - so stick that in yer pipe and smoke it you greedy supermarkets!!!:D

Well done CCStar!

Hit em in the pocket and they will soon take notice.

These greedy companies can easily produce recyclable, biodegradable bags for general use but choose not to on the spurious grounds that it somehow helps the environment.

Shop at local markets if you ever can. Turn up 30 minutes before they are closing and lots of the fruit and veg sellers will clear the stall for next to nothing.

Try it - we could all do with a breath of fresh air anyway!

5and1e

It really annoys me that shops are stopping free bags, especially when some of their products are excessively packed!
I always recycle free bags in bins or for packed lunches; so now I'm going to have to buy bin liners.
Today, I went into Lakeland, only to discover that they are no longer giving carrier bags free. I had quite a few items in my basket, and no shopping bags with me, so as a matter of principle I left them on the counter!

booeyhugh

was in tk maxx yesterday and they will be charging for bags mid june but have a really nice sack bag thing for 1.99 at the tills though! i think we should follow ireland and do paperbags all the way!

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angeleyes wrote: »

if all this is in an effect to be green why dont they give out recycled brown bags like in USA!!!

At Orange we will be phasing out plastic bags and using brown paper ones from next month.

danger_mouse_2

to be honest as pointed out earlier by a few posters, the excess packaging is a huge issue and should be the thing focused on by the supermarkets.
i tend to use the carriers for cleaning up in my back garden after the hounds, saves buying more bags and saves me a few quid aswell, although i dont take excess bags with the purpose of "saving them".

As ive said before i work in a supermarket and think to be honest, using the shop i work in as an example.......

i think on average customers could easily reduce the bag usage by 25% without any bother, simply by not taking a full size bags for a loaf of bread or pint of milk, maybe instead of putting 2 bottles of lemonade in a carrier then doubling it to walk 200m to the car how about put them in just use 1 bag.

I sit at work day in day out and think it would be sooooooo easy for the companies to reduce the pakaging they use, but equally as above, the customers could do so much more aswell, although one thing that does annoy me is when people week in week out take half a dozen bags for there shopping because theyve left there re-usable bags in the car......i mean its a couple of hundred metres away, go get them or pack at the car, is it really to much to expect, i mean theyve gone to the trouble of buying the bags, just use them!

anyway rant over, gonna get some shut eye before it starts over tomorrow, although with the bonus of the new task 25....thats a whole different story though....

Clowance

danger_mouse wrote: »

one thing that does annoy me is when people week in week out take half a dozen bags for there shopping because theyve left there re-usable bags in the car......i mean its a couple of hundred metres away, go get them or pack at the car, .

since I never remember the wretched bags until checkout, do you think they would be happy if I trotted off for about 5 mins to go and get them leaving a queue?

Some of my blue "strong" tesco bags are already disintigrating, notice they are not "bag for life" though, no promises to replace.

deanos

im sure when i was a kid one of the supermarkets used to issue paper bags, key markets rings a bell or maybe fine fare

But they are a bit pointless as they dont have a handle so no good for walking if you have a few

5and1e

I was in Tesco today and thought perhaps I'd stock up on "bags for life", but none were advertised as such, I could buy green bags, but were they for life? I think not!

Stompa

deanos wrote: »

im sure when i was a kid one of the supermarkets used to issue paper bags, key markets rings a bell or maybe fine fare

But they are a bit pointless as they dont have a handle so no good for walking if you have a few

Sainsburys used to do large paper carrier bags with a handle many years ago.