to resent having to ask for carrier bags now in Tesco?

[Ewemoo]

Our local Tesco has stopped supplying carrier bags at the checkouts and you now have to ask for them. The problem is I can't help but ask for the bags in a really grumpy and pissed off way. Why should I have to ask for bags like I've committed a heinous crime by failing to bring my own. I understand the idea behind it and I do my bit by recycling all my carrier bags. Why don't Tesco do their bit by reducing plastic packaging instead? I know that truthfully I abu but for some reason it really really annoys me.

It's not a stealth tax but some companies may see it as another revenue stream although half the time they seem to forget to charge for bags. M&S have this bizarre thing where they have a 'free carrier bag' offer at weekends. What is the point of that?

The most annoying thing is when the staff atmy Sainsbury's Local start packing a carrier bag without checking whether you have your own and then when you bring out your bag, they don't know what to do with themselves and have to pass everything to you awkwardly as the tills are not designed for people with their own bags. Surely they should offer to pack your bag for you if you wanted that as they have the space to rest the bag on their side of the till, iyswim.

Waitrose have a green till which you use if you have your own bags, their bags for life are about 10-20p each . but if they break you get a free replacement.I always put mine back in the boot.Useful if you go somewhere like Lidl or Aldi, as they just chuck all your stuff back in the trolley! I think using your own bags is the way most supermarkets are going to go, and charging for them is obviously a nice little earner for them.If you don't want to pay for a bag I would ask them to find you some boxes to put your stuff in,.

But Hughjaaaaarssssss (!),.... surely it's not a bad thing to not waste water, and to not take a bag you don't need, and to not use more electricity than you need to....???!!!

I don't get it. Would you just use more of a resource than you need purely because you can and you don't think it is doing any harm? It's just wasteful, and wasting anything is never a good thing. Money, ice cream , water, chocolate, god, I don't know, bubblebath...??, you get my point anyway.

The so-called 'bags for life' are useless. Pay a bit more for the lovely large sturdy bags (I think the're 75p in Sainsbury's) and you can use them for ages. They are still quite thin so fold up small unlike hessian ones! Best of all they won't tear or get broken handles like the horrible thin free ones. I hate it now when I forget to take my own bags - the reuseable ones stand side by side in the car boot nice and neatly.

I agree about waste bergentulip.

But I resent the hypocrisy surrounding the 'green issue'.
And I resent being charged more in the name of the 'environment'.
If the government were serious about changing the way we live they would encourage us to do so by offering incentives instead of using it as another way to make money.

And charging for plastic bags is akin to a stealth tax

I always keep bags in teh car, those sturdy ones they sell for a pound. As soon as I have uloaded my shopping I put the bags by the door so that I can put them back in the boot when I go out.

It's easy once you get into the habit.

We've just returned from a seaside holiday and visited the national lobster hatchery. Apparently tens of thousands of sea creatures die every year either from getting tangled up in discarded plastic bags or eating them.

Its's not just plastic bags, plastic packaging and wrappers injure animals as well.

But the supermarkets have no problems selling items with ridicoulos amounts of packaging.

Look if you want to believe you are making a difference then carry on, thats you're choice. I haven't got a problem with it.

Hmmm .. You obviously haven't read my limk above Riven.

The second link works, you just have to wait for it to load.

But judging by your comment you are not interested in an adult debate so I'll leave you to it

Says the person who can't be bothered to read anything that contradicts what she is saying.

[meh]

If you can't see how that article relates to what you were quoting about oil barrells then I can't help you.

Do you know how much oil is in a barrell? Have you any idea what the fact you just stated actually means? No, its just greenwashing.

Plastic bags account for less than 1% of our landfill.
And why isn't everyone boycotting supermarkets on the grounds of too much packaging if we are concerned about the animals?

I really cannot be bothered to get into this with you. Its saturday afterenoon and I don't want an argument, I camo on here for a bit of fun.

Like I said if you want to believe that you are making a difference then carry on.

I use bag for life every time I go out. I ahve a green bin where the council recycles all my paper, plastic and card. But her is the totaly stupid bit, I go to my local bottle bank to recycle my glass every week, BUT it is miles away so I have to drive there thus I am adding to my carbon footprint to recycle. Should I just put it in the bin????

I have a trolley dolly and it is great. a smart kipling style bag that fits loads of parachute style carriers in, including bottle bags, and nets for your veg. looks smart like a handbag, so I don't forget it.
Look on the zpm website, I can highly recommend them.
Now I have it I make more of an effort not to get free bags, and feel bad if I have to.

Just get your shopping delivered...in trays!!