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To think the Body Shop shouldn't be charging 5p for paper bags?

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FatherReboolaConundrum · 05/10/2015 11:33

Went in to the Body Shop at the weekend and the tills had a sign saying that from today bags would cost 5p. Since they only use recycled paper bags, not the plastic bags that are covered by the new law, AIBU to think the Body Shop is being very cheeky indeed?

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fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 21:58

Make the multi million pound conglomerates find a solution and stop passing the buck.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:02

MissBattleaxe, I pay enough for my shopping thank you very much. To lie down and say, ok, its my problem to find an alternative to carry these goods off in is ridiculous. The multimillion pound companies need to find a bio-degradable solution.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:02

The problem is not solved at all. You are still using bloody plastic carrier bags!

MissBattleaxe · 05/10/2015 22:22

To lie down and say, ok, its my problem to find an alternative to carry these goods off in is ridiculous. The multimillion pound companies need to find a bio-degradable solution.

Oh for goodness sake. I cannot believe the reaction to having to provide your own bloody bags! It's a shopping bag not a pint of blood! People used to use shopping baskets and string bags all the time. Then shops started giving out billions of plastic bags that don't degrade and many people used them only once. Then they realised that was a bad idea and caused pollution so we're going back to using shopping bags again. France does it. Wales does it. Ireland does it. Scotland does it. Usage has been reduced by 90%.

I agree that there is too much manufacturers packaging these days, but I think that's another thread.

Being a customer doesn't make you royalty. Drop the attitude Margo Leadbetter and use your own bloody shopping bag.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:29

Oh for goodness sake Battleaxe, its the likes of you roll overs that help the bloody conglomerates pass the buck.

I have no idea why you think its your "duty" to do this.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:31

Oh, I forgot, you are helping the climate Grin

Help by forcing these companies find an alternative.

MissBattleaxe · 05/10/2015 22:33

I have no idea why you think its your "duty" to do this

Um, it's not my "duty", I just don't get all the indignation about paying 5p for a bag.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:35

It isnt going to make a plastic problem go away is it? Why on earth I should pay for a non solution is beyond me.

MissBattleaxe · 05/10/2015 22:38

It isnt going to make a plastic problem go away is it?

Well yes, it will a bit. plastic bag usage was reduced by 90% in other countries who introduced this initiative, so I would say that was a start.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:40

This should be stopped at source, those who sell need to find an alternative, the buyer of goods should not be made to pay at all.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:41

A bit? why are you making it your problem at all is my point.

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:42

Introduced an initiative? that solves the sellers problems?

fulldutypaid · 05/10/2015 22:43

and makes the buyer pay more.. Really?

HesterShaw · 06/10/2015 18:05

There is no such thing as biodegradable plastic. All it does is break up into tiny bits which enter the food chain, including the stuff humans eat. Bioaccumulation it's called.

I'm sure you'd love tucking into a fish marinaded in microplastics.

Morsecode · 06/10/2015 18:41

Ah now fulldutypaid, are you saying it is your human right to be given a free carrier bag whenever you grace an establishment with your kindly custom?

DoJo · 06/10/2015 18:47

those who sell need to find an alternative

And the alternative they have found is that people bring their own bags when they go shopping - it seems like a reasonable solution to me.

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 06/10/2015 20:15

The real buggers are plastic drinks bottles, they're the things that we remove the most of on river cleanups at my canoe club.

That could be solved at source though by charging the buyer an extra 10p per bottle & then refunding it when they're handed back in. Used to happen in Germany for the larger drinks bottles & makes perfect sense.

Even if people do just chuck them away kids can make some cash by picking them up & handing them back in.....

fulldutypaid · 08/10/2015 00:05

Actually, now it's happened I've had second thoughts. Whilst I am still opposed to large conglomerates passing the buck, it has an upside! It's saving me a small fortune. I actually do only pop in a get the one or two items needed in between a big shop Grin

LucyF6 · 29/11/2015 12:45

I work for The Body Shop and we've been charging for over a year. It's an ethical company and it wants to discourage people using bags when unnecessary, they still have to use resources to make them. The money actually goes to charity. It's 5p for gods sake, us people who work in retail have to put up with customers having a go at us for it.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 29/11/2015 12:53

Hilarious at body (sold out to loreal) being an ethical company.

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