Shopping bags!

[tiggerblue10]

Went to Sainsbury's yesterday and they said that they were going to do away with the plastic bags at the end of October.

Start saving your bags now!

[B00]

Whilst I appreciate al his bag for life business, and use them for my own shopping, im confused by it all.

Most of us use carrier bags as rubbish bags. So i'm assuming once we've exhausted all our bags, we'll obviously have to resort to buying and using bin bags- how will that 'save the planet/ environment'?

[theonlyone]

You don't have to a bin bag just
newspaper to line a bin and get
a compost bin ..sorry not easy if you
live in flat and it's not on the ground
floor ! I could natter for ages about
being eco friendly ..but cotton bags ..
also now trendy ...

[B00]

A compost bin- like the idea, but if you've no garden..........then what?

[puddicat]

My mum brings me tons of them some i use to line the pedal bin,others i take the recycling bins,i keep on at her about the bags that she takes from shops,doesnt seem to change, i noticed that the elderly are always getting carrier bags for the least thing,maybe they dont worry about issues like this at there age lol, i use a free hessian bag given by the council, if you took 20 carrier bags to there reception,think they made a mistake on the amount they should have asked for, as they ran out pretty quick, over100,000 carriers bags were handed in !!!!

[MrBen5]

All this eco stuff is a big con.
If people were that 'eco' they would go poo in a field and let the earth absorb it back into nature. Instead it all gets dumped in the ocean.
Also, look how many of these so called 'eco warriors' have changed their tune towards nuclear power, just because fuel prices have and are going to increase dramatically over the coming months. They have now come out and said nuclear power is ok...

[B00]

You know puddicat, ive found the complete opposite at work, as you probably know i work on a till at the co-op and its the kids and teens who almost demand a bag, even if it's just for a couple of chocolate bars, and sadly, our policy is, if they ask for a bag they've to get one.

Also, now this may sound racist, but its not, it's a fact- the asian community do not use re-usable bags either, again they'll ask for a bag even for the smallest of items.

The elderly on the other hand have really taken to it, the majority of them keep a good few reusable carriers and cotton shoppers, and get quite crotchety if you offer them a carrierbag!

[puddicat]

Strange boo, my mum is soooooooooo not eco friendly lol!!!

[krollonskye]

I try to remember always to take my "bags for life" things into my local supermarket BUT I refuse to put butcher meat into them. I think this policy is ill thought out, meat and milk often leak in the bags and I always take the supermarkets carriers for this purpose alone. Surely Health and Safety woud advise against putting these products into a "bag for life"

[B00]

krollonskye- the bags are washable.

[puddicat]

kroll i think health and safety maybe have better things to do, ummmm maybe not lol, we used to use brown paper years ago, lets start again!!!.

[krollonskye]

Puddi - Yep Brown paper bags would be the answer
Boo - washable? - Mine ain't
I notice that Tesco keep all their ther wine boxes at the end of the till - Double Score - they don't have to dispose of them and customers can use them for shopping

[B00]

krollonskye- sorry, no probably the hessian type bags aren't, infact I wouldn't reccommend it, I was thinking of the cotton ones.

[bigmamma]

My local ASDA has bags for life on display , and have done away with their ASDA plastic bags which have been replaced with small thin clear white ones.