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.

Whilst we are talking about bins.
We get our wheelie bins collected fortnightly.
By the time a collection is due, my recycling bin is overflowing and our normal bin isn't much better.

If our council start charging for overflowing bins, as they are suggesting, I will be dumping my bin bags in flats like yours Tinker, where no one can tell who's put what out. We have a couple of blocks by us and I will just sneak in in the mornings using the trade button and dump them in the bins they have at the back.

I already pay council tax. I will not pay twice to have my bins emptied.

It really is getting ridiculous.

i know what you mean. ours will only take 2 bags yet we aren't allowed to put birthday cards, cardboard or plastic in the recycling box. if i could recycle more then i wouldn't have as much rubbish!! our box for recycling isn't very big but they will let you put extra cardboard boxes/carrier bags of recycling out and they just empty them straight into the truck.

I stopped filling the recycling box after I saw a programme about them. The mixed boxes get put on the tip because they're not able to separate them out! Great if it saves you some rubbish from your allowance, but otherwise it's a waste of time

hughjarssss that's a good idea as long as they're being collected! I've been arguing alongside the HA with the council to get our rubbish removed, it's foul out there now as they only started doing it two weeks ago after a couple of months they've done it twice now but there are split bags they won't take, spilt rubbish, it smells and we have flies. Got to get the HA to come and clean it up.

I wouldn't do it if the people that lived in the block we're having problems with their rubbish Tinker.

why would they bother paying out the extra wages and money for petrol though to collect the recycling boxes if they weren't going to do anything with it?

Where I am (The Philippines) they automatically pack your shopping for you and I have never seen a re useable bag. It all goes into the plastic ones. And I don't think they recycle here either. Or not that I know of anyway.

So this country is in effect cancelling out everything that UK does WRT recycling anyway.

they do that in america. my step-sil has to literally shove her reusable bags under their nose and force them to use them lol.

what about weekly shopping?

are you meant to carry shit loads of bags aroung with you

what if you dont bring enough to put the shopping in?

tuff shit? juggle with them?

YABU. Reusable bags are bigger so you don't need 'shit loads'. Think of the environment.

when i do the weekly shop i take about 10 reusable bags and that is usually enough. they all sort of fit inside one another so i only carry one there. although once i no longer have a buggy to dump stuff on i think i might have to invest in a backpack or trolley.

It's easy. I used to have 3 large cool bags from Tescos which, combined with other bags being reused, fitted my weekly shop. I now have some large beach bags from Primark and some lovely big bags from Waitrose which do the job. they live in the boot of my car.

Get over it. Every little helps [snigger]

wotulookin at - i take a mixture of bigger and smaller ones cos if you only have enough to half fill one of the big bags it all ends up moving around all over the place.

But it's easy to shove all the bags inside one big one - and we use a mixture of sizes. We just keep them in the car boot all the time. I have a couple in the bottom of the pushchair too. I do still get some funny looks in some shops when I say that I don't need a bag.

i know .... that's what i said

Bonifacio- well, thank god we are doing something then, otherwise we'd all be facing doom and extinction a lot sooner then(!)

CozIsaidso- worried about carrying 'shitloads' of bags around,....????!!!! Like wotulookinat said. Just put a load inside another one.

The excuses people are coming up with are un-be-lieeeeevable!! I don't think everyone is devoid of common sense, and can figure out that a plastic bag will easily go inside another one.... for example, or to use a cardboard box, or to keep them in the boot, or in a handbag, or under the buggy,.... therefore, it's clearly EXCUSES!

Why the resistance? What is so flippin' hard? It's just sheer bloody-mindedness not to 'adapt and change', is what it is.

Keep a load folded up in the car or in your handbag. I do have a bag the size of small tend mind you! And it's taken my quite a few weeks of non-online shopping to get used to reusing them.

But it had to happen. Went to M&S yesterday and the lady on the checkout was explaining very gently to elderly gent that he had to buy a bag now. He was a little miffed

what made me chuckle were the people said they don't take a handbag out. they put their purse and keys in their pocket. fair enough but i know not all my trousers and skirts have pockets in them!! then what do they do with said items?

you are all making me lol talking about the environment and recycling and describing all the reusable bags that you keep in the boot of your car. Shop locally, get the bus, or get your shopping delivered.

erm i do get the bus.

actually more often than not i walk.

Sorr, Nappyaddict - I was agreeing with you and referring to CozIsaid's post in one go and it wasn't clear. I blame the hangover...

Timewaster, yes I use the car, but nobody is perfect and at least reusing bags is a small thing that I can easily to to help the environment.

They should provide boxes like they used to. Mind you I'd end up with hundreds of boxes at home as well as shopping bags.. and none ever when I need them at the checkout. I'm being burried alive in bags.

We go to Netto once a month and they have boxes. I like having them because I then put them in the garage and use them for paper recycling - fill them up and then take them to the tip. Not practical for everyone, I know.
I would be happy to see supermarkets provide boxes again.