to tell everyone to return the Tesco Bags For Life

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Can we talk about Tesco's Bags For Life because it's pissing me off.

So, everyone agrees that people using and chucking away carrier bags is an issue. Awesome! Government introduces a charge on all plastic bags. Tesco still offers the 5p bags but also 10p bags for life that they promise to replace forever. Good strong bags, nice strong handles. Great!

A while later they quietly get rid of the 5p bags. Fine.

Except now, having clearly realised that most people don't care enough to return a 10p bag, they've changed the design of the Bags For Life. Gone are the nice strong separate handles, instead we have holes in the bag itself which are nowhere near as strong. The plastic itself is much thinner. I've had these die after one use on some occasions. Yes, it's only 10p but it's also one more useless piece of plastic which I'm sure is because they know no-one will call them on their Bags for Life guarantee -- and the amount who do isn't enough to cost them more than they save with cheap nasty bags.

I think all supermarkets should work in partnership on BfL, they should be universal. None of this " sorry we don't accept those BfL from Sainsbury, they aren't ours". They should all accept each other's and offer recycle bins to put the old broken ones in.

I've got a few BfL dating back 10 years and they were really strong and thick, with nice designs on. Proper handles and gussets at the bottom which expand. Waitrose and M&S have continued with the same quality, Tesco and Sainsbury are crap, you can fit a 4 pinter and a few other items in and they're creaking at the seams - literally!

Waitrose have not continues with the same quality - at least not near me. Their bfl is virtually gussetless and falls apart under any kind of stress.

We have a Bag of Bags that lives in the boot and contains all the Bags for Life (from every shop) in it. Every so often it runs out and has to be replenished from the Bag of Bags in the utility room. The Tesco ones are definitely rubbish. I calculate the load stress based on whether I can get eight pints of milk in one and have it not fall apart before it reaches the car. I agree that when the original Tesco BfL came in, they were fine. Now, they can only handle four pints before breaking. I try to use them only for light things and use the Waitrose ones for preference.
On a side note, the Waitrose BfL, when they're returned broken, are recycled into garden furniture, which sounds like a great alternative to landfill.

It's all just tokenism. The planet is seriously fucked and reusing plastic bags is not going help when nothing is done about industrial pollution.

I a word, yes YABU, the idea is to not use plastic bags, buy your own non-plastic bags. Bag for life was never intended to be a freebie, it was environmental message.

Bloody freecakers.

I use these and they r ideal if you scan and shop in Tesco