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There's only one sure way of dealing with plastic carrier bags, and that's to ban supermarkets from selling them completely. I know there's been a big reduction since charging for them, but is it the answer? no I don't think so. We would soon get used to taking our own cloth bags when going shopping, like years ago.
09:32 Thu 28th Nov 2019
There's only one sure way of dealing with plastic carrier bags, and that's to ban supermarkets from selling them completely. I know there's been a big reduction since charging for them, but is it the answer? no I don't think so. We would soon get used to taking our own cloth bags when going shopping, like years ago.
About a dozen years ago we bought some very thin nylon bags which fold into a small storage pouch. These are small enough for me to carry a couple in my pockets and my wife to have a couple in her handbag but are large enough and strong enough to hold as much as we can carry weight-wise. They are still going strong after all these years and mean we have never needed to need plastic bags from shops. As well as that we bought some reusable vegetable storage bags from Lakeland, which we always take with us when food-shopping, so never need to use bags for loose veg either.
emmie, as regards to bin bags, there are many items of bags of all kinds that the modern day would find it difficult to do without, but carrier bags is not one of them, as said in this post, its the easy one to do with out. You have lots of items in supermarkets ( food) that needs to be wrapped that's on sale.
There's lots of talk about supermarkets/shops selling loose ( unwrapped) food, this really is not an option in my view, they promote self service, therefore you have a very big health issue here, not everyone is fussy about keeping their hands clean when handling food, so infection could spread very quickly, could you really see supermarkets installing hand wash gel at the entrance, like hospitals, and even if they did would people use it?.
That said there are many areas were a big reduction of plastic can be reduced, for example I've just opened a plastic box of washing pods ( persil) the box is massive, but it only contains 15 pods, that only just cover the bottom of the box, this is to make you think your getting more for your money, there are thousands of items that are packed in over sized containers, just to fool us, you get a small slice of steak that's packed and displayed on a plastic tray that's 3 x bigger than the steak. disgusting and needs to be stopped. it makes me mad to see this happening.
There's lots of talk about supermarkets/shops selling loose ( unwrapped) food, this really is not an option in my view, they promote self service, therefore you have a very big health issue here, not everyone is fussy about keeping their hands clean when handling food, so infection could spread very quickly, could you really see supermarkets installing hand wash gel at the entrance, like hospitals, and even if they did would people use it?.
That said there are many areas were a big reduction of plastic can be reduced, for example I've just opened a plastic box of washing pods ( persil) the box is massive, but it only contains 15 pods, that only just cover the bottom of the box, this is to make you think your getting more for your money, there are thousands of items that are packed in over sized containers, just to fool us, you get a small slice of steak that's packed and displayed on a plastic tray that's 3 x bigger than the steak. disgusting and needs to be stopped. it makes me mad to see this happening.
Haven't bought a carrier bag in years.
As I said on Tuesday's thread...
//I shop online and get as much of my fresh produce loose as I can, they then pop it in a brown paper carrier with the bar codes stuck to that bag.
My raw meat,fish and frozen comes in plastic, I hope they will find a good way to make all of that recyclable soon.//
As I said on Tuesday's thread...
//I shop online and get as much of my fresh produce loose as I can, they then pop it in a brown paper carrier with the bar codes stuck to that bag.
My raw meat,fish and frozen comes in plastic, I hope they will find a good way to make all of that recyclable soon.//
They say it has risen, but also that it has dropped?
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I keep hessian bags in the car and use those for shopping, but I have used all the carrier bags I had as bin liners now, so might have to buy more.
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I keep hessian bags in the car and use those for shopping, but I have used all the carrier bags I had as bin liners now, so might have to buy more.
I have reusable bags...nylon and bags for life...that I got from wilko. I always carry them in my backpack. I'll get carriers in shops for loose or larger items, or clothing. I want clothing in a clean bag. Those bags I collect get recycled...either for rubbish, or I take loads to work. We give them to clients for take away food, clothing and toiletries. If you get bags, donate them to charities as they are very useful.
