to think people who use supermarket plastic bags are unthinking and lazy

[pesme]

why can they just reuse old bags. i am bordering on the obsessive with this!

Becausae i am unthinking and lazy. I agree. However i did a weekly shop for 5 people and a dog and only used 2 carrier bags. I refused the small see through bag on my meat. i refuse carrier bags at local shop now all due to MN carrier baggedness.

I try to but usually forget or only take one and end up needing 3 or 4

I do reuse them at home too so much so lately I have had to get bags from the shop as I had run out

With you pesme!
I tut at people who use them.
I'm always armed with my cloth numbers...quite obsessive about it too.

It is the online shops that drive me mad. They use so many bags, each with about 2 or 3 items in. Why?!

I have a car full of reusable shopping bags but half the time i only remember them when i'm at the check out!

Pisses me off every time and i end up with yet more bags stuffed in the drawer in the kitchen.

I have a tesco.com delivery arriving tomorrow bagless - it's a trial apparently. AND I get green clubcard points!

online drives me mad! dh actually blurted out 'oh good we are running low on those' after the last online shop.

I recycle my carrier bags. But I do take new ones from the check out every time I go - I walk so I need to use the normal, small carrier bags, if I used a bag for life all the stuff inside would be distributed oddly and it would be hard to carry (and too heavy). I'm too disorganised to cope with a shopping trolley, often nip in when I'm on my way back from something. As I don't drive, I shop every couple of days, bringing back three or four bag loads on each trip. Think by recycling them it ends up being better for the environment than someone who drives to the supermarket but uses a bag for life.

ooooh bagless, i am sadly v. excited by that!

I have to say we use our T carrier bags as kitchen bin liners so we get thru them. I do sometimes forget to take them with me to reuse them in T first, but I think that's having 4 dc and living in a constant rush rather than unthinking & lazy, after all I want my green points!

best thing is fabric bags, you get them in Germany as a matter of course it seems. Here I make do with DS's Bookstart bags. They last forever and are smaller than the bags for life.

I go round the supermarket and have potatoes, veg and fruit all rolling around - refuse to use those plastic bags for everything.

comes onto thread purely to be tutted at

sorry

consider yourself tutted

tut tut

BUT if they brought in the 10p per bag tax they have in Eire I'd probably think about it a little more

tut

Tut me, too. I couldn't care less about supermarket bags.

I'm not religious, you see

Yes, you are. It shows a distinct lack of imagination on your part!

true it has made a huge difference there but they were crazy with the bags. people used to just grab handfuls of bags with their shopping just cos they could.

No, you're not being unreasonable. I always take either my trolley, or one of my own bags when I go shopping (depending on how much I'm likely to buy).I also use public transport, so I must be quite a green shopper.

I also hate the ridiculous waste of bags when you do an online shop. How are you getting a bagless delivery pobletsmum? Is it just a trial in a particular area, or can you request it or what? I'd be very interested as the excess baggage is one of the things that puts me off online shopping.

am so forgetful and impulsive am always caught without. Would welcome a charge for bags thoug - sad but true that this might act as a stronger reminder.

I saw a woman put an apple in a little veg plastic bag, pay for apple, put in carrier bag, walk out the store, put both bags in bin and eat the apple.

I of course went and got the bags out of bin and reused them

yes but it's people like me who keep people like you supplied with plastic bags. my sister won't get any at the supermarket and then nicks all mine to use as those dog poo bag things. and i use all mine as bin liners so I'd be horrified if I had to actually buy bin liners instead

I'm excited by the bagless Tesco trial as well, call me sad, I don't care.

I do try and take my fabric bags to the supermarket but quite often they are full of random other things, like the 300 light bulbs dh insists we own 'just in case'. My great revelation has been the Onya bags which are fabulous, and I see from their own website they now do a washable fruit-'n'-veg bag for using in the supermarket too.