People still buying bags when shopping

I forget all the time sadly, wish I didn't but I have so many things in my brain to organise and sort I simply forget. I begrudge every bag I buy but hey ho

I don't carry a hand bag

the level of narcissism is impressive. Don’t you care even a little about the planet more than “I want”

@XenoBitch
I strongly suspect that the bags are not being recycled correctly after you say bye bye to them at Tesco. It's probably like the issue of where our 'recycled ' plastic bottles end up - in a third world country or in the sea having been tipped there by unscrupulous companies who are paid to recycle our rubbish. I actually work for a charity in a small shop. I only say the 🐢 thing to customers who bring their own bags although I'm a mid 50's post menopausal woman with cancer and a put it in the fuck- it bucket attitude so perhaps I should 😁
@IloveAslan
I agree with you. We, the staff, would rather not sell plastic bags at all. We do a nice range of brand new reusable bags which are really nice - I have some.

I’m afraid you’ll hate me. I regularly buy new bags for life and ‘strong carrier bags’. They are in great demand at my local food bank so I always get them some along with my donations. I do try and get some bags for life along with the plastic ones but the price difference is prohibitive if I’m getting a dozen at a time.

I haven't bought a bag since 2015. I just bring my own.
One of my bags I've had since day one too.

I do recycle the plastic bag packaging from food at supermarkets too. I really hope they do get recycled.

But i am doing my bit and not buying anymore plastic bags for my shopping (even for clothes) since 2015.

I'm sure you'd find me extremely irritating. I walked to the shops with Dbaby the other day in the pram, to get a few bits. Usually I just shove it all under the pram, but forgot that I needed to buy some pork belly to roast and didn't want the possibility of the packaging leaking pork juices all over the pram. So I bought a single plastic bag to wrap the pork belly in. Don't worry, I'll reuse the bag many times before it eventually gets binned when it's tatty and broken 😉

I put my old plastic bags in a recycling bin. How is it my fault if it gets dumped into the sea? I am depositing it into recycling bins in good faith.

I could understand this if you were concerned about the environment, but why are you bothered about how other people manage their money?

Some of us actually give a shit about the planet, the animals who share it with us and the wildlife.

I’m too busy doing things more interesting than remembering a bag ✌️

Bumping this comment.

People just don't give a shit, and it's the poor sea life and wildlife who are suffering.

Definitely this.

@StSwithinsDay not just recycling plastic though. Anything that could be recycled.
Where my parents live the local council doesn't take glass as part of the doorstep collection.
You either have to take it to a public bottle bank or put it in the landfill bin.
I have no car and struggle to carry heavy bags. So if I lived there anything glass would have to go to landfill.
That's ridiculous.

I have literally hundreds of carrier bags. I try to keep 20 in the car but sometimes I forget.

I don't normally carry a bag anymore since Google pay.

I think it's too late for recycling plastic bags. There is so much else going on - the production of lithium batteries for example is so damaging to the environment. The bombings in Ukraine and Gaza are releasing tons of carbon.
It's pointless worrying about bags and bottles.

@StSwithinsDay I agree - unfortunately investment in decent recycling methods seems to be low down councils priorities.

The planet is fucked. It will be our grandchildren who will pay the ultimate price for the damage we are doing now.

@IloveAslan do you live somewhere where it doesn't rain much?
Because paper bags are frequently pointless in the typical UK rain.

I keep forgetting to come out with bags. As as result I have a ridiculous amount of carrier bags at home. For the past couple of months Ive got into the habit of putting a carrier bag & tote shopping bag inside my work handbag, even if I don't think I'll go shopping. Its solving the problem somewhat as its silly to keep buying carrier bags. The ones at home im repurposing them as bin bags as theyre taking up unnecessary space and its annoying. I do think about the environmental aspect as well.

@XenoBitch that's the issue - somewhere along the link of a bag being recycled some bags are ending up in the sea (and bottles etc).
We should be able to trust that placing objects for recycling in the correct recycling bins means they will actually get recycled.

Just keep increasing the price until the morons learn, IMO. A fool and their money are soon parted.

If they want to keep buying new bags at £2 each because "it doesn't hurt my pocket" then fine, supermarkets are single-handledly solving an issue with the redistribution of wealth.

I wish more places did paper/cardboard bags

Why on earth are plastic bags still available in stores? Where I live they were phased out years ago and if you buy a bag when shopping it is paper. Many stores still give you a (free) bag if you want it, but supermarkets charge for them.

I take my knackered plastic bags to Tesco, where they send them off for recycling.
I am not stood on a beach and yeeting bags into the sea.

If a cashier told me to carry my own bag and save a turtle, I would be telling them (in my mind) to fuck off and stop working for some huge company that has more of a negative impact on on climate change than I ever will.