supermarket carrier bags

[sandie]

not sure i will get any response with this post but just curious as to others views on the subject.

having spent a fair bit of time over in ireland i discovered all there food shops from tescos to the newsagent charge 2cents for a carrier bag.
this at first was rather annoying but i now think its a fantastic idea.

tescos here offer to take back your un-used bags when they deliever your online shopping and i just noticed sainsburys have a sign up saying they are removing all the free bags from the checkout to encourage us to re use but we only have to ask and they will priovide a free bag should we need one.

i dont see why they dont adopt the same policy as ireland. there efforts seem abit half hearted if u ask me.

[scouser28]

they will put re useable bags out for you to buy like asda do

[Deuce Bigolo]

The only bags that should be used are canvas. bought two inAustralia for AUS1-00 each and been using the same ones for the past year

Plastic bags recycled or not should be banned outright.Just one percent makes it to the sea but thats enough to start killing wildlife onmass

Plastic bags are the devil

[Marino]

I been using the sack type bags for a quid from Tescos. brilliant gets loads in and never a split handle.
The only problem is remembering to put them back in the car for my next shop.

[sandie]

ahhhh... having pointed that out i didnt see many re-usable bags/sacks in ireland.

six of one and half a dozen of the other in that case.

i'll keep my trap shut.

[Harry Hardon]

The co-op now charge you 10p for a bag and so do places like M & S.

This is an old 70s idea which worked well but Tescos and sainsbury's got rid off in the 80s and 90s, now we have masses of carrier bags.

Sainsburys's answer - 1 extra profile point.. Tesco's - nothing.

Most women carry handbags so a plastic bag can fit in, and I've always got on in my jacket / coat for shopping.

We should all do something about this and use less bags, but I will need a few for me tissues as I look at SAndie's films

[andy at handiwork]

Tesco's give card points for each re-used bag. Have done for yonks.

[sandie]

yeah but i cant get a tescos reward card. they refused me. im taking them to the european court of human rights.

[JonnyHungwell]

I like the free bags, they're handy for bagging rubbish. If I didn't get them free I'd just buy them, so I'd still throw the same number away.

Industrial waste accounts for 90% of all waste in this country, and virtually none of it is recycled. Cutting down on carrier bags won't make much dent in the total waste produced. Let the supermarkets and manufacturers cut down on needless packing first - then I may consider my carrier bag wastage.

Also, seeing carrier bags are just made from a by-product of oil - not making bags won't get round the by-product having to be disposed of.

At present shops give the bags for free, factored into their overall budget - but when they decide to charge they operate at a profit, the customer paying way over the price of production. Even 2p a bag is ten times the production cost. - at 5p a bag they're laughing art us, being able to rip us off in the name of being green ---- whilst at the same time piling thousands of pounds of stock a week into dumpsters because they're out of date, slightly damaged or whatever.

[JonnyHungwell]

Stop drinking milk if you want to be kind to the environment - for every litre of milk produced, the cow burps 24 litres of methane into the atmosphere. 1 kilo of beef takes around 7 kilos of grain to produce - kill the cows and feed more people for less.