To ask you to remember your bags!

[Irritatedcashier]

At work. The same people every single day buy a plastic bag for their 3 items, moan about the cost of bags, never bring one with them. Always "hehehe I've got loads in the car"
fucking use one then? Obviously can't say that 😂
Each and every time they moan about the price I tell them it's to discourage plastic waste but they just carry on.
Same conversation every day.

AIBU to expect people to bring a bag when they know they're going to a shop?

Probably am, I'm just grouchy cause I just finished a late 🙈

I don't disagree 😄

Used to work with someone who bought lunch every day in a supermarket

Took a plastic bag and binned it straight after

Every day. Too cool to carry placcy bag in pocket for reuse

How would you like it if all of the waste plastic bags were dumped in your hallway, up your stairs and all over your beds, suffocating your kids and entangling you so you can't move?

Because that is literally what happens to wildlife and marine life because of the huge amount of plastic waste humans generate.

Some humans are trying to change their habits.

Some humans are ignorant.

🤷🏻‍♀️

"But why are you doing a security check on me? I'm a regular customer?"

Mate, that's VISA doing the security check, not me 😂

I avoid glitter/ glitter wrap. Really simple to do but has a decent impact in reducing micro plastics.

Me too

Still see people picking up loose veg and putting it in a bloody single use plastic bag though. How do you know they're single use? I still have plastic bags around from the days when they were free. They have the advantage that they can be rolled up and put in a pocket, which "bags for life" can't.

I think retailers should go the way of the co-op. But have a lower charge. The bags are compostible and can be used in your food bin. And if you don't use them for that then at least they break down. Co-op compostible bags are useless for lining the food bin. They biodegrade from the bottom, and when you pick up the bag to take it out, you run the risk of the bottom collapsing and dumping all the rubbish on your feet.

The inventor of the plastic bag thought they'd be an environmental alternative to one use paper bags. Back in the 70s and 80s we were all desperately trying to avoid paper use to "save trees". Hence the rise of plastics to replace paper and wood. Now we're encouraging people to use paper instead of plastic. Just goes to show you can't judge people of previous generations according to the knowledge of the current generation.

I shop at Booths and don't remember them not using paper bags. Likewise, Morrisons also use paper bags.

I'm not aware of the bags in either store splitting and causing the sort of disasters you're dramatising.

I rarely forget my bags but live in Wales who were the first to start charging for plastic bags.

I remember when the law came in in Wales, they reported that even paper food bags would be charged - such as those used in McDonalds. I presume that's still the case?

Assuming the bags do need to be used in the first place, it seems very dishonest to me, when you have no say in being charged an extra amount for receiving your order as standard; it's not like you can easily bring your previous greasy McDonalds bag and give it to them to put your current order in. It's obviously designed by the government purely as a money-making scheme and nothing to do with trying to encourage better environmental choices.

I remember when the law came in in Wales, they reported that even paper food bags would be charged - such as those used in McDonalds. I presume that's still the case?

I don’t think that’s the case. I do know that Tesco no longer supplies paper produce bags, you have to buy reusable ones.

Take more bags for life into the supermarket than you think you’ll need and offer them to people in front of you without a bag.
My New Year’s Resolution 2018.

If I forget my bags I use an empty cardboard box from the veg section, that in my local store would otherwise be flattened.

Erm I know they're single use plastic bags because I work in the shop? The shop that puts them out for customers to use? They're actually for the loose nuts but people use them for everything. Even already packaged stuff 🤷🏻‍♀️ gets on my nerves

Also, compostable bags only biodegrade before you get the bag to the bin if you're a slob who doesn't empty the bin for days. I use compostable bags daily. Empty immediately if contents are wet. Empty at the end of the day or when it's full if contents are dry.

Simple really

@Irritatedcashier The point I was making was they may be intended as single use, but how do you know people use them only once?

Also, compostable bags only biodegrade before you get the bag to the bin if you're a slob who doesn't empty the bin for days. I empty the bin when the bag is full. I do not believe in throwing away half used bags. But thank you for your character assessment.

I know because I work in the shop FFS. I see the people take the bags off the roll. I see the same people take a bag every time they come in. I see the rolls going down. I have to replace empty rolls. How do I know? Because it's my fucking job. God. How many times do I have to repeat myself 🤣

Sorry for the language. I'm irritated again 🤣

I could say the same. You see the same people take bags every week but you don't know what they do with them. If they do anything other than put them straight in the bin, then the bags aren't being used just once. Agree this is more likely for carrier bags rather than the rolls of bags put out near the fruit and veg that you're talking about, and I agree with you that those are quite unnecessary. AT most a paper bag to keep stuff together, but there's absolutely no need for a bag of any sort for a couple of parsnips.