... to think that charging 30p for a carrier bag is taking the piss and has naff all to do with Attenborough and his polar bears?

[BerwickLad]

Seriously, 30p in Morrisons now. Even a paper bag is 25p. And Sainsbury's are charging 30p for little bags to put your loose fruit and vegetables in. This has gone way beyond trying to get people to cut down on plastic. What is wrong with just recycling the damn things anyway if you don't want them choking sea-lions etc? Rather fleecing customers?

The idea isn't to fleece customers. It's to stop customers using them.

It's so you get pissed off buying them and remember to bring your own reusable ones!

Reusing them is a lot more environmentally friendly than recycling.

YANBU.

When they stop bagging bananas and shrink wrapping broccoli I’ll take them seriously.

And the Morrison’s paper bag charge is hilarious.

You are being beyond ridiculous OP. We are in the middle of a climate / environmental emergency.
Stop using them and remember to take your own like everyone else. Plastics are actually very rarely recycled and even the recycling process contributes to carbon emissions.

Get your own back by taking your own bag and reusing them. That’ll show them!

@RJnomore1 exactly. It's cheaper now to buy prepackaged veg and fruit in Sainsbury's than it is to buy one of those stupid little bags to put them in, so the environmental benefit is 0.

The planet is choking with plastic, we ALL need to cut back on it as much as we can. If course the supermarkets need to do more but so do we, take a reusable bag with you, it's not that hard once you get into the habit.

The idea isn't to fleece customers. It's to stop customers using them.

Exactly ! Besides, I notice the OP hasn't complained about the cost saving that's been passed on to the consumer !

I thought bags had a mandatory government charge of 5p, so where is the extra money going?

I’ve bought a few of the fruit and veg backs for 30p each from sainsburys. They’re really useful (and obviously reusable)

Why aren’t you taking your own bags?

When they stop bagging bananas and shrink wrapping broccoli I’ll take them seriously.

You do realise that we all live on the same planet don't you? There isn't one for the people who are happy to co-operate and a different ones for the ones that refuse..

Some of my shopping bags are over 2 years old I have 4 larger bags and 4 smaller ones and probably spend £1 a year in replacing. Don't get the angst at all

cheaper now to buy prepackaged veg and fruit in Sainsbury's than it is to buy one of those stupid little bags to put them in

Am I the only person who just chucks it all in loose and it's not a problem?

It’s not about taking your own bags, sometimes people forget like I did today and had to pay 15p per bag in Asda. It’s just odd how TopShop charges me 5p a bag, and Asda 15p. So where is the extra 10p going?

@Pumperthepumper well I do generally but made an unexpected trip and didn't have any with me so I got stung because, unlike all the people who drove there causing untold environmental damage and killing asthmatics as they went and therefore didn't need bags, I didn't have any other way of getting my food home.

I don’t disagree with charging for carrier bags, but what really pisses me off is the supermarkets putting the onus on the shopper rather than getting their own house in order. I went to Sainsbury’s a day or two after they brought in the no loose fruit and veg bags rule. Every single thing I bought was packed in or had some kind of plastic on it except for eggs, even the bananas had a plastic sticker on them.

The amount of plastic waste that one shop produced was probably equal to around the same amount of plastic I’d use in those tiny, flimsy bags in a year.

You are being beyond ridiculous OP. We are in the middle of a climate / environmental emergency.

No we aren't extinction rebellion would have you believe that , but plastic bags are a tiny part of that anyway.

I was watching Inside the Supermarket yesterday and they were experimenting with reusable mesh zip bags for fruit and veg that cost 25p I think.

Interesting to see the different options they considered but it did make me wonder why they are needed at all. I haven't used a bag for fruit and veg for years. It just goes in loose. The only thing I would use one for is Brussels sprouts or a paper one for mushrooms.

Why are people so wedded to needing any kind of bag for everything else?

tableclothing I too chuck all the fruit and veg in loose 🙋🏽‍♀️

No we aren't extinction rebellion would have you believe that

It’s those pesky scientists that are having us believe that actually.

Crosspost Tableclothing. Not just you!

Am I the only person who just chucks it all in loose and it's not a problem?

I chuck loose fruit & veg in the bag & when using self scan I stick my labels to the outside of the bag in case I get stopped for a random check.

I remember my bags because I hate the bags for life!

They should charge a pound, and then put that money towards environment projects.