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5p bag charge - your views
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If the produce bags have handles (and are plastic and thinner than 70 microns) then they are single use carrier bags and must be paid for, unless being used for appropriate items. Uncooked meat or unwrapped food, fine.
Leaking bag of flour, interesting one. "A bag intended to be used solely to contain wholly or partly unwrapped food for human or animal consumption" is exempt. If the bag of flour is leaking, I would say the food (flour) is partly unwrapped, so it should be ok to use a free bag to contain it. Just my opinion. Unless it ever went to court, no one can say for sure.
good for shops though as the 5p from those who pay for bags and they also sell lots more bin bags! lol!
Deal with your own hygiene, don't expect the nanny state to do it for you.![/QUOTE]
Codswallop! The 'Nanny state' is the regulation enforcing this charge in the first place. Stop trying to shift the blame.
Said she wouldn't charge us 'this time' load of pap.
If i'd been quicker thinking I would have told her it was mine out of my handbag!..will next time.
The "jobsworth" was quite right. You are not entitled to a free carrier bag for cooked food. The supermarkets are responsible for enforcing this law and can be fined if they allow people to do what you did. The jobsworth could lose her job. Pity you don't appreciate her putting herself on the line for you. And a pity she did.
She was actually applying the thing properly, annoying as it is, but here's what you do... You have, say, loose tomatoes in a produce bag, and loose onions in another. Once these have been put through the till, put both into the same produce bag thus instantly giving you the second bag to reuse
Now of course, if those produce bags didn't have handles, they wouldn't count as carrier bags in the first place so would be exempt from the charge.
Edit: Since I'm following the law to the letter