5p bag charge - your views
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For those that do a trolly full of shopping at a time, the trick is to get a couple (or more) large plastic boxes and keep them in the rear of your car then empty the trolly into them.
This is OLD news for us and those in Wales :rotfl:
Say about 90% of the customers I saw had their own bags. Last week, I say about just over half had their own bags.
Saw one customer kicking off with a checkout supervisor.
Going to work later and interested in how my colleagues got on with shouting etc.
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I didn't know that Sainsbury's long-lasting bags can be replaced for free if broken! Good to know, than you The-Person-Who-Wrote-About-That.
The only problem I will have now is I will run out of bags to line my small bin in the kitchen but from time to time I can just buy a bag from nearest store - problem solved.
As I mentioned in the post, we don't have wheelie bins for our general waste. Many people use the black sacks as their bin liner. Been told not to do this as encourages foxes etc. As some people don't even have a dustbin to put their rubbish in. They leave it on the pavement until it gets collected so the neighbours will get rubbish in the front gardens.
I don't disagree with the environmental aims but I think part of the reason there's such a fuss compared with other countries is the timing. There's a general feeling about that this government is out to make the poorest in society pay while they rarely challenge their friends in big business. So shops can deduct money from the 5p to pay for staff training and are keeping very quiet about which charities exactly are being helped by the tax/levy. If we're so concerned about plastic why not force producers to cut back on the ridiculous amounts of packaging around some products. A lot of that is pure marketing to make their product look appealing and generally larger than it really is.
I'll continue taking my reusable bags and just pay for a roll of bin liners. They'll cost a lot less than 5p each and I'll choose which charities I want to support as I do now. But I'll also be asking which charity is being supported by the supermarket while I'm at the checkout.
I overheard a conversation in Primark between a customer and the cashier; she said bags with company branding on is one way to advertise the business.