To not use the little fruit and veg bags

[ObiJuanKenobi]

...at the super market that they provide at the end of the aisle?

DP has only just noticed I don't use them which he thinks is really weird.
I just think it's a waste of plastic if you wash your fruit and veg anyway.

Am I the only one?

Or take the paper bags near the mushrooms and put other fruit/veg in.

I don’t think I’ve ever used one in all my years shopping at supermarkets.

fuzzy ok very imaginative...but that's never happened to Me!

Thank you, leslie.

I’m more excited than you’ll ever know!

Net bags look brill. I will be buying some of them for sure.

Paper bags should be the standard.

I also don't like it when then put cauli's and cabbages in their own plastic bag, with the name of what it is, printed on the front of a bag. What a bloody waste of resources!

People put their children in the trolley with shoes on or their dogs or their Sholley things with dirty wheels. Rats crawl all over them. It's disgusting to put food in them without any packaging.

Nope never use them. Have been tutted a few times by checkout people though It doesn't need to be "kept together" in the trolley and I'm yet to dump a strange squash vegetable puree on the conveyor belt..

I don't use either. Only use the paper bags for the mushrooms.

I use muslin cloth bags when I need to use them (mushrooms, sprouts), otherwise no bags.

Same with the bread rolls - wish they had paper bags by there not the plastic ones :-(

Haven't used them in about 10 years.

One of my New Years resolutions is to cut down on as much single use plastic as possible. Am currently looking into finding a milkman, am washing body and hair in soap (but still use conditioner), use a proper mug when all others are using disposables. It's hard, but not impossible to make changes.

Those little bags are a bloody waste.

I take my own cotton bags - I have one I keep for rolls etc, the rest get used for fruit and veg. I fail to understand why they don't provide paper ones nowadays

I never use them if i can avoid it. I am so glad that other people are making an effort to cut down on wasted plastic.

They've started introducing the biodegradable plastic bags in my local Carrefour, which means the bags can go in the recycling or veg/fruit waste bin.

People put their dogs in shopping trolleys?! I've genuinely never seen that. Are they even allowed in supermarkets?

Given that the food comes out of the soil, which is full of bacteria, and then is stored in warehouses where rats probably run all over the place, I really cannot get worked up about it. I wash my fruit and vegetables thoroughly before I use them.

I personally think it is more disgusting that we waste so much plastic.

I bring my own net bags! Plastic ones just frustrate me

I don't use them either

Hey, treeofhearts, I use them too!

Reusable shopping bags are dirty, they contain E. Coli and loads of other bacterias. I use the plastic bags and then reuse them as dog poo bags.
Paper or fabric is not necessarily more environmentally friendly than plastic. Cotton for example takes a lots of water and pesticides to grow, making cotton fabric bags not so environmentally friendly.

Rarely use them. Far too much worry about possible dirt and germs as most fruit and veg is either peeled, washed or boiled.

I use them for sprouts. Mushrooms keep better in a paper bag.
Otherwise it just goes in the basket.

I don't use them either - they are just a waste, especially for things like baking potatoes or apples. They are fine in the basket or trolley by themselves!

No they are not allowed in but people still bring them in and sit them in the trolleys. They just whinge oh he's only little, he'll sit in there, if challenged.

I have my own onya mesh bags. For small items but mostly I don't bother. On the very rare occasion I do have to use one of the plastic ones, I keep it to reuse

Reusable shopping bags are dirty, they contain E. Coli and loads of other bacterias.

Eh? I wash mine - they are the nylon ones which stuff into a little pouch, and they wash and dry in a trice.