to think that all of UK's supermarkets should charge for a carrier bag?

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I pkan to use my big blue Ikea bags for shopping from now on and the bag for life for just a,dew itens.

Sorry it is boring but I feel important.

T- Rex's get free bags, of coyrse

Yes - most of the time, people don't need one. I take my own bags when I go shopping, every time. It's not that difficult. Rather that than be drowning in plastic bags that I don't need.

The alternative would be to phase out plastic bags and bring in paper bags instead.

In the Hollywood films most people that carry groceries do so in a big brown paper bag. They look a bit fragile to moi.

In the US they are much more likely to pack your shopping for you and carry it out to your car

Oooh how lovely. I have never visited the USA. Vallium limes packibg her own bananas dontcha? (suggestively).Lol! :)

Oooh how lovely. I have never visited the USA. Vallium likes packing her own bananas dontcha? (suggestively).Lol! :)

LOL!

If a bag for life falls apart take it back to the retailer who supplied it and they will replace it free of change.

I work for a retailer that does charge for plastic bags and has done for about four years now.

Customer complaints has gone from roughly 70% to a very rare one (normally a grumpy old man who would find something else to complain about anyway type).

I will say though only 50% of customers bring their own and the rest just pay for new ones every time.

Every little helps I guess

I think plastic bags are an easy issue for the supermarkets to latch onto. I'd like to see packaging in general tackled.

My local tesco and asda does give points for not using disposable plastic bags, the countryside is so much better looking since the plastic bags are so little used nowadays.

I walk to the supermarket (and back). Carrier bags are perfect for taking shopping home on foot - bags for life are too big and I never have a fabric bag with me even though I've bought several - they are always in another handbag or coat pocket.

I recycle the old carriers, after I've used them half a dozen times, so they get turned into benches instead of being gobbled by turtles or damaging other wildlife.

I was really, really pissed off by the anti-carrier bag campaigns. Why should I be penalised for being environmentally friendly and carrying my own shopping, instead of dumping it into the boot of a gas-guzzling 4x4?

YABU. Unless course they employ human packers that take goods from trolleys to your boot and manually unload. Jump in with you and unpack at the other end straight into your cupboards.

Yanbu.

M&S does my head in for this. I often buy a snack for work and they always offer plastic bags (the little ones), they don't seem to be able to get their heads around the fact I'm already carrying a bag and can pop everything in their. I don't think shops should offer them at all, the onus should be on the customer to ask.

It makes me pathetically angry actually .

Exactly Horace I think supermarkets need proper recycling policies instead of focusing on carrier bags because they're an easy target. Now the cost of plastic resin has risen it's becoming more cost effective to recycle plastics like stretch films which wasn't seen to be economically viable before.

YANBU. It really isn't difficult to take your own bag.

I do make an effort to take my jute bags (bags for life are too big). But I agree that the issue is packaging in general.

If they genuinely don't want people to use plastic carrier bags then they could just stop providing them.

Those saying it's not a win on CO2 - maybe it isn't but at least a cotton bag will rot in landfill.

I live in Wales so it's second nature to me to take bag for life bags out with me wherever I go although I seemingly never take enough and end up having to buy a couple more...

I know at Asda though, it's only the charges from the 5p carriers that get donated to charity, they keep the money from the 6p one. A bit sneaky maybe?

Either way, it's a good thing. I find it very strange when I cross over the bridge and they just shove it in a bag regardless.

I was a bit when I had to pay 5p for a big posh bag at the bridal shop to carry my (v.expensive) veil home. Especially as I'd paid for it in advance and they then had to ring up 5p on the till...

When I lived abroad everyone seemed to have a wicker/ rattan basket that they would use. I would actually buy one for here in the uk ..but alas I buy everything down to a battery online ( which of course comes in buckets of packaging!)

Why do online supermarkets pack like one item in each bag? Our weekly shop probably has 10 bags brought to the house, but it could easily fit in 3! We had a bag solely for a cucumber once.. What is that all about?

Yanbu it can only be a good thing to use less plastic bags as lets face it, paying for them will make people remember to bring their own. Agreed there are other environmental things to think about such as the foods packaging but at least this is one step in the right direction.

But then I'd have to buy bin bags. I'd be using the same amount of plastic so there would be no environmental benefit.

But then I don't take many as I have one of those granny bags with wheels.

Once again it's targetting the consumer though isn't it. Surely in this day and age another form of bio-degradable material can be found.

Another issue is why should I pay 5p for something that allows the retailer free advertisement. They should frigging pay me to use one.

So the 5p charge for plastic carrier bags in Wales is donated to a charity?

Good point Clipped!