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!

i will admit to using supermarket carrier bags(although i thought thats what they were there for)but it does annoy me when the cashier says 'would you like a hand with your packing?' and i say 'no' as im usually planning to put as much shopping under the pushchair as possible,but the cashier totally ignores me and packs my stuff anyway

i just take the stuff back out of the bags and give them back.

ll - I have to confess to not buying one of those bags because they didn't seem to have a 'base' like the tote bags in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. More like the Bookstart bags?

I use cloth bags when I remember - so if you see me using plastic ones then it just means that my scrambled egg brain didn't get its act together that day!
When I'm a bad girl I always feel very guilty so I make sure that the bags get re-used or recycled.

They are recycleable you know

Re: bagless delivery (sorry for hijack) - just went to checkout on tesco.com site and had to choose bags or bagless. Faced with disclaimers about how it will take longer to unload my shopping, and recommending that shoppers help the driver unload the stuff (they CAN unload every item into your kitchen for you but who would stand back and watch anyway?).

By the way, it won't be 100% bagless - there are a few exceptions, but I can't remember what. I think one was bottles of bleach, and another was packs of cooked & raw meats in a box together (1 will be bagged, I think). Who knows . It can only be better though.

I will see how it goes tomorrow...

Thanks pobletsmum, I will check that out next time I do an online shop. I have no problems helping unload, and would far rather it takes a bit longer than be faced with a pile of unwanted bags.

Pobletsmum, at what point did Tescos give you the bagless option? I did my normal shop this week with them to be delivered tomorrow and didn't notice any such option? I would much rather have it bagless. My shopping comes with sooo many bags, I know they will take them away to recycle them but there's really no need!

I use the au naturale (like onya but cheaper) bags, cost £1, they are great, though the most recent ones are acid colours, sadly, but the style of them is good, over the shoulder..

I do keep thinking I might be better just using the co-ops bags, which are sort of biodegradeable. thye would fit my kitchen bin...

Panth - it was at checkout, and you couldn't miss it if it had been offered - you have to select one option or the other before you can pay. Maybe it's a regional trial? I'm in East Anglia.

because I forget to put them back in the car, then I'm driving by the supermarket on the way back from getting the dd's from nursery and I think, ohhhh I need this.....

its hard sometimes, like today on the way home from school I popped into the supermarket

hadn't planned to so I didnt have the funny 'instead of plastic' bag I bought last week!!

maybe will have to keep it in the boot!!

Our local Waitrose has the self-scanning option with which you get 4 free heavy-duty bags with re-inforced bottom/sides aswell as an insulated bag for refridgerated goods.Haven't needed a carrier since. However, if I use Ocado then it comes in loads of bags but you can get them to take away those from your previous deliveries for recycling.

bagless Tesco trial ???????!!!!

can you imagine!

Great idea so plastic bags are not used but it would take ages!

imagine a £100 shop being brought in without bags!!!!!!

I couldnt help and leave the children in the house!!!

I always give the plastic bags back to Mr Tesco man the week after

You are being so vbery reasonable, pesme. This is lazy behaviour

you need the lightweight, tiny when scrunched up in the wee holder, incredibly strong, au naturale/onya bag they are so light you don't notice them, hold loads, 3 tesco bags of shopping can sometimes fit into one of these bags, you can have some in the car, your handbag, nappy bag, buggy etc.

when I shop in a big supermarket, if i don't have a bag with me I usually just bung it loose into the boot, then transfer to a bag when I get home, it takes less time than getting a fecking plastic bag to open... but i seldom spend more than £30 in one visit to tescos, so I don't buy loads there

ah kiss, it's not just me then. If I have to use a supermarket bag I can never open the fuckers. It gets embarrassing.

I have very very dry cold hands.

Do you people use bin liners then for your bathroom bin? Because my supermarket carrier bags get recycled for that, and also for cleaning out the cat litter tray.

I try to use bags for life plus a few odd nylon and jute bags I own. But I do feel like a sad little old lady compared with those carefree people loading their tons of shopping into the supermarket bags.

wel I don't have a cat, and I do still accumulate bags, dh is not great at avoiding plastic bags, I have a dilemma with bags, because if I used co-op plastic bags instead of my own their bags do degrade in 5yrs, so if I use there bags they would be "better"? for the environment ? and then I could use them for my wee bins, though I often don't put a bag in the bahroom bin, it is washable

I get my shopping deliverd so they come in the bags, and they don't recycle them here.

V annoying

No you're not, because they are. And if San Francisco can ban plastic bags from all its shops then why can't we? I blame the big supermarkets.

So when we become a plccy bagless society - what will I use to pick up the mutts crap ???

Nappy sacks - they are much smaller and require less plastic, although it would be better if they were made from biodegradable plastic.