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Plastic bags ?
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I have been shoving my emptied plastic bags (from Co-op,Tescos, Asda etc.) to the right hand side of my undersink cupboard for many years. There must be thousands in there and they keep going in with no resistance. I have lost a tool-box, an Iron and a shoe-polishing kit recently and so will clean the bloody cupboard out on Sunday ? Do you have a bag for life or are you similarly plagued with the one-offs ?
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Personally hate plastic bags and always use the "bag for life" type. If I had my way I would charge a £2 each for plastic bags at the checkout - maybe then people would start to carry their own bags with them. You will see from this that I'm really just a grumpy old git with a bee in my bonnet about bags!!♥
Things that I NEVER remember to take to the shops.
In reverse order ...
5. Loyalty cards from coffee shops ... I must have dozens of half filled cards ... I could drink free coffee for a year if I consolidated them all.
4. My shopping list ... I'm always chaining up my bike at the supermarket when I remember that it's on the fridge door.
3. Vouchers of any sort ... don't know why I even bother keeping them, frankly.
2. Things that were a bit dodgy and that I was going to return ... by the time I remember them, they are so old that they would have gone off anyway.
1. Reusable carrier bags ... I've bought loads of those "bag for life" type of things, and I've never, ever remembered to take one shopping with me.
In reverse order ...
5. Loyalty cards from coffee shops ... I must have dozens of half filled cards ... I could drink free coffee for a year if I consolidated them all.
4. My shopping list ... I'm always chaining up my bike at the supermarket when I remember that it's on the fridge door.
3. Vouchers of any sort ... don't know why I even bother keeping them, frankly.
2. Things that were a bit dodgy and that I was going to return ... by the time I remember them, they are so old that they would have gone off anyway.
1. Reusable carrier bags ... I've bought loads of those "bag for life" type of things, and I've never, ever remembered to take one shopping with me.
I have a drawer full of bags for life, never remember to take them with me. One of my big peeves is when the person on the till asks if I want bags - NO, I'll carry a weeks worth of shopping for seven people home in my bloody pockets!!! (Know I should take my own bags, it is about the only thing I can never remember to do.)
I will pay for carrier bags when:
Supermarkets stop wrapping cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms, swede, cauliflower, lettuce, apples, oranges, pears and all other fruit and veg in plastic shrink wrap, plastic bags and/or moulded plastic boxes. I bought a pack of 4 large open cup mushrooms the other day. They were carefully packaged in a specially designed plastic container, with a circle for each mushroom and then the whole thing was shrink wrapped.
Bin bags are free. My kitchen bin is designed to use carrier bags. Pointless using a bag for life and buying kitchen bin bags.
Fresh meat isn't sold on a polystyrene tray with a strange plastic thing between the tray and the meat and the whole thing shrink wrapped in plastic.
Frozen food such as salmon fillets isn't sold in a big polythene bag with each fillet shrink wrapped in its own plastic bag;
The plastic in my pack of jaffa cakes doesn't weigh more than the jaffa cakes.
They stop selling individual portions of salad in a plastic tub with its own plastic knife and fork.
They stop selling bin bags wrapped in plastic.
They stop selling magazines shrink wrapped in plastic.
They stop selling fresh cream cakes in plastic boxes.
The list is never ending. Carrier bags are the least of the problem.
Supermarkets stop wrapping cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms, swede, cauliflower, lettuce, apples, oranges, pears and all other fruit and veg in plastic shrink wrap, plastic bags and/or moulded plastic boxes. I bought a pack of 4 large open cup mushrooms the other day. They were carefully packaged in a specially designed plastic container, with a circle for each mushroom and then the whole thing was shrink wrapped.
Bin bags are free. My kitchen bin is designed to use carrier bags. Pointless using a bag for life and buying kitchen bin bags.
Fresh meat isn't sold on a polystyrene tray with a strange plastic thing between the tray and the meat and the whole thing shrink wrapped in plastic.
Frozen food such as salmon fillets isn't sold in a big polythene bag with each fillet shrink wrapped in its own plastic bag;
The plastic in my pack of jaffa cakes doesn't weigh more than the jaffa cakes.
They stop selling individual portions of salad in a plastic tub with its own plastic knife and fork.
They stop selling bin bags wrapped in plastic.
They stop selling magazines shrink wrapped in plastic.
They stop selling fresh cream cakes in plastic boxes.
The list is never ending. Carrier bags are the least of the problem.
