People still buying bags when shopping

£2 each time... More money than sense!
If it was my way they would be banned from tomorrow.

There was a previous post on this thread about the damage plastic bags cause to marine life... i wish people actually cared more about our environment and the wildlife who inhabit it.

If I was out and about and didn’t have a bag; of course.

I only take bags to the supermarket.

Would you still buy single use buy plastic bags if they were £2 each? I wish they were.... Maybe then people would think.

There was a previous post on this thread about the plastic bags and the harm they do to sea life. Maybe read back on them and then you will think.

It's interesting how these conversations always turn out:

1. Original poster makes observation about waste/pollution that we could all avoid.
2. Counter posters comment about their freedom to litter/consume.
3. Supporters make stronger point about environmental destruction, climate change.
4. Angry retort from counter posters about climate warriors and their useless protests, why can't they go after the corporations, stop virtue signalling, this is a free country etc.

I never reuse bags when I'm back in the UK. My mum has a collection of crappy reusable bags but they feel dirty, who knows what they were used for last time, it just seems grim to me. I just buy them and I don't care a jot whether someone on the Internet is fine with it or not, it's my money! It was a ridiculous rule anyway.

We keep ours in the cupboard under the stairs. It’s just automatic to get them out on the way to the supermarket now. Like putting my seatbelt on in the car.

I was defending you against the SPaG hag, Youcannotbeseriousreally, but... just as you like. Don't post on a chatboard and not expect responses when you disparage what other people do.

Bwahahaha!

Good one, OP. I felt sure it was going to end with ‘…good way to save the planet.’

I buy bags, because I find them incredibly useful for all sorts of things that a bin bag just wouldn’t work for. The 60p or 90p I spend on them a week is really not going to pay for my increased fuel bills, food bills, or frankly, every other bill.

Nor is my typo yours but here we are!

If you didn't get it, the poster understood fine well. They're having a pop at your mis-use of 'brought' and 'bought' because, that's who they are.

Your post irritated me as well but not for that reason. It's really none of your business.

Well said, Yoda!

@BobnLen

Sorry, seen your query was already answered.

Yes, YABU. Bags are available for sale; some people choose to buy them. Just because you place importance on taking your own bag doesn't mean everyone else must.

Do you genuinely not understand why some people sometimes don't bring their own bags? Off the top of my head (i) unexpected shopping trip so don't have a bag; (ii) realised upon pulling out existing bag that it's broken; (iii) not enough room for shopping in the bag(s) brought; (iv) switched handbags and forgot to check whether there was a shopping bag in handbag chosen for the day; (v) can't be arsed and happy to buy one.

If the government was really serious about reducing the use of plastics, they would give incentives for developing alternatives (which do already exist, but are just expensive to mass produce compared to current plastics).

PPs were saying they have reusable bags in their handbags.

Not everyone carries a bag.

Not everyone drives to the supermarket in order to leave their bags in the boot.

Some people might just decide to pop-in
to buy some groceries after work, so won't have bags with them. No point carrying stuff around because of 'might'.

Ditto someone might be returning from a fancy evening out at the theatre or similar - so don't bring their Bag for Life.

Some people might be irritated at repeatedly being told to bring bags to the supermarket when produce tends to covered in insane amounts of plastic packaging.

Plus, lot's more reasons, I imagine.

Some of the responses and attitudes on this thread make it extraordinarily easy to feel superior. No effort required.

(I don't really understand how people remember their bags every time... )

@SnapdragonToadflax

I leave the empty bags by the front door. They piss me off there, so I take them to the car next time I go out.

If I were to store them out of sight I'd forget them too.

Do you use toilet roll, op?

You are just turning people away from your cause, not to it

Give me strength, they're all out today! the cluelessness of it all.

"Your cause". 😂

Um I suppose you're just an alien from outer space over here on a visit.

DH fumes about those ghastly stickers that are seemingly applied with gorilla glue onto aubergines and other speciality produce. They're a nightmare, wasteful, pointless and ruin the veg.

Why the heavens they aren't just content to have the item on the computer at the checkout if they are sold by the item or by weight and ditch the individual labels is anyone's guess

Seriously it isnt hard to bring bags.

OP genuinely, are you alright? I don’t even mean this in a goady, condescending fashion but this is way too small an issue to get this worked up over. It literally makes no odds to your life how many carrier bags I keep imprisoned under my sink and likewise anyone else.