Asda Bags ! I Have An Idea.

Stephen_Leak

I now have a nice collection of orange Sainsbury's bags, which I now keep in the car and use for my shopping at ASDA. Don't get mad, get even.

[Deleted User]

Get other bags, turn them inside out, and write ASDA on them in green marker.

silps

Its all a conspiracy by the supermarkets. Nothing to do with the environment, they just want to up their profits by selling you the bags which they have to pay for. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:;)

DenBo_4

My daughter just walks to Tesco at lunchtime to get her food shopping instead of Asda. As I'm trying to get her to break her Mr T habit, I keep telling her to go somewhere else (in Northants there's every kind of supermarket you could ask for within easy distance) but she wont go to Asda as she gets free bags at Tesco. So Asda might be the most "green" but people love their free plastic bags, I use them to put my rubbish in. When we have to pay for bags I will have buy plastic bags to put my rubbish in instead of using free ones, so once again the supermarket wins.

mrsyorkie

It's all well and good having your 'eco' bags (i was given an Eco bag from morrison's - made from plastic - but seriously, how many people actually know how many bags their months shopping etc will fit into? It's just another example of supermarkets jumping on the bandwagon to make a profit! How about having lettuces/cucumber etc. without the packaging on? how about selling cereal in the packets they come in instead of adding the cardboard boxes - and as for the Asda chicken kievs - they come individually wrapped as well as in a cardboard box! If Asda want to save the environment they need to look more closer to home than their plastic bags!

P.s. How about instead of carrier bags, they use recyclable, forest friendly paper bags instead - or will that cost Asda more money? Not wanting to be a cynic here but....!

MrsTee_2

mrsyorkie wrote: »

and as for the Asda chicken kievs - they come individually wrapped as well as in a cardboard box! If Asda want to save the environment they need to look more closer to home than their plastic bags!

Yes I've noticed that too, as do their dishwasher tablets. Surely it can only be a matter of time before companies are forced to drastically cut down on the amount of packaging on their products. Especially when we're forced to pay for excess rubbish in our bins, when the councils won't collect ALL recycleables.

chaddy7604

teedy23 wrote: »

I oftenpass by a plastic bag tree on my way to work, I could just jump off and pick a few, no really.

I've sown some in my garden, I'm still waiting for them to come up :rotfl:

silps

MrsTee wrote: »

Yes I've noticed that too, as do their dishwasher tablets. Surely it can only be a matter of time before companies are forced to drastically cut down on the amount of packaging on their products. Especially when we're forced to pay for excess rubbish in our bins, when the councils won't collect ALL recycleables.

We pay extra to buy something that comes in packaging (manufactures don't throw the plastic in for free), then we pay to have it either thrown in landfill or recycled. In my town we have 2 wheelie bin collections and 1 recycling collection. The second wheelie bin collection is for organic waste which most people could compost themselves.

Remember this is all coming out of your council tax. Manufacturers will never want a reduced packaging law because the look of a product makes it sell. And politicians will never offend big business.

What will happen is once people really start protesting against packaging then supermarkets will voluntarily start reducing packaging because there is no way they want to be regulated. Remember the traffic light system that was proposed for food labels but the supermarkets got there first with their own confusing labeling systems.

Anyway this is all a red herring, there is much more important things that need to be done to stop global warming. Strangely I think the high oil prices might achieve more in reducing carbon footprint than anything a politician will ever do. Americans are apparently getting out of their gas guzzlers...

Quasar

I was in Asda today. They will give you the usual free bags if you ask for them. Their policy now is not to have them on the counter like they did before.

As for the green, stronger bags, you buy them once only. Should they fray or break, you take them back and they will replace them free of charge. At least, that's what the checkout operator told me. In any case, I had my own cloth bags.

brettcta

i love nutters, me.