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.

Ooh good idea I never thought about that with the big wheelie bin bags! Saves on using a few probably to many bin bagts because our recycling boxes are useless! They are so small and they don't recycle plastic which we use alot of I'm afraid!

Personally I don't see the problem with cloth bags or anything else like that. I use my Bookstart bag for my milk LOL Have had a few funny looks and had one girl call me a 'skank' I think it was for using a freebie bag?!?

I never bring my own bags. The free supermarket carrier bags make excellent nappy sacks and pedal bin liners.

YABU. I re-use my bags at the supermakreket and keep a bag for life in my handbag for lunchtime shops and use old carrier bags as my bin liner and still don't seem to be able to make a dent on the pile of plastic bags we have.

Part of the porblem I think is that dh picks up stuck at the local supermarket on the way back from dropping ds off at holiday club (or scholl) and gets a "new" bag then.

I am not doing it for the environment per se - I just doen't like the waste and our throwaway society. years back, when Safeway used to supply brown paper bags, I used to use them - and even used them to lin my pedal bin (although you did need to be careful about liquids!)

Excess packaging at the supermarket does bug me, but I think there is an EU law that means that the "prodcuer" has to be laible for all packaging - so e would be netitled to unpack or return excess packaing to the upermarkets (who in turn can have a go at thier suppliers).

prettybird...yeah, we also have such a pile of stacked away plastic bags....it will last us at least a year, without needing to get any new....terrible really.

PurlyQueen - yep same here.

Only use nappy bags when DS has soiled his nappy and when I do I use Boots biodegradable ones have had the same box for ages because half the time I just turf the nappy in the bin!

Also people bring us things in plastic bags (eg to a party) - just can't get rid of them!

Having said that, in resposne to mamadiva's querstion, I have never ever used a wheelie bin bag - hadn't, until Mumsnet even realsied that such things exist and still don't see the point of them) but I do use a (carrier) bag to lin my pedal bin in the kitchen.

In fact you have made me thing that 'cos I also have a wee compost bin in the kitchen, so most of the "wet" stiff goes in there, that in fact, if I were ever to run out of this self sustaining pile of plasitc bags, then I don't actually need to line the bin and could just use bags when I have something gungy to put in (eg the chicke carcass and stewed veg left over from making the stock last night).

I already carry down the other bins (paper, bathroom etc) to the bins and empty them direct into the wheely bins (recycling bin or green bin as approproaite)

i don't get nappy sacks. my friend uses them but as far as i can tell they don't mask the smell at all.

prettybird - so you don't use a bag in your wheely bin? and you don't get told off for it or anything?

nappyaddict - I totally agree about the nappy sacks they really are pointless, only use them when DP is about as he's a bloody clean freak and is disgusted at the thought of carrying dirty nappies through the house LOL. He doesn't seem to think i wash my hands.

I have never seen any "wheely bin" bags used in any wheely bin in Glasgow. ( presume that there some sort of mega sized bag.

A lot fo t our rubbish does go in "loose": the bin in the living room giets filled with wee fromage frais pots by ds and that just gets emptied straight into the wheeely bin.

Wheely bins get clipped on the dustbin lorry and lefted up and empited automatically. Why would a bin bag be needed?

We have put all sorts into our bin: bits of rubble from taking out a fireplace (not too mcuh a week otherwise it weiged too mcuh), excess wood, carbarod packing from furniture deliveries. As long as it fits, they take it (and we don't even have to have the lid flat down).

In practice we only usually put out one of the two green wheely bins we have (two houses converted from one, so technically one is ours and the other is our downstair's neighbour's) - and even then it is often only half full.

i didn't know there were wheely bin bags either. when we got one we were just going to use normal bin bags like we have to use now.

i am also amazed that people can fit a week's worth of rubbish in a wheely bin. i must say i am a little worried about moving over to one cos then we will have to take the extra bags to the tip ourselves.

prettybird - I've never seen these bags either but have heard of them. I did live just outside of Glasgow and know that at one point our council wouldn't allow it without bin bags, I'm up in the Highlands now and never actually thought about it I guess. Might try pushing my luck

nappyaddict - What do you use at the moment? We have one whelie bin that gets emptied every 2 weeks. You'd be surprised at how much they hold especially if you recycle.

No wheelie bin liners here. Or nappy sacks unless I've been out and have to bring a dirty nappy home.

Actually, I do use nappy sacks. The compostable ones from Naturecare which I use to line my Peely bin in the kitchen!

My wheelie bin is rarely more than half full each week

we just dump our bin bags on the pavement and they get collected from there. we have about 10 bin bags of rubbish a week. we recycle but our council doesn't take any card or plastic.

prettybird, wheeliebinbag are just bigger then ordinary refuse bags (those black ones)...you would use it instead of using bags in your normal bins, iykwim...not aswell as...!

nappyaddict....how big is your family, lol...saying that, we havw 3 wheeliebins, one black for normal rubbish, a brown one for cardboard and gardenwaste (grasscutting and stuff) and a green one for plasticbottles, papar and tins.

Only thing that we have to collect in boxes and bring away ourselfs is glassjars and bottles

YOu can get wheelie bin bags in Lidl and Asda and I htink most supermarkets....

4 adults and 1 2 year old.

so, 5 people...just like us....but, beffore w were able to seperate everything we often had to ask nextdoor if we could use their bin when ours was full (as it is only the 2 of them, they always had space in theirs)

phew - thought we had an abnormal amount of rubbish for a minute. i know all our rubbish won't fit in one wheely bin.

oh, and we also have a compost heap....more stuff out of the black bin

We have three bins: a green bin for "landfill" waste; a blue bin for recycling stuff (paper, aluminium, tin, plastic; no carborard, carton or margarine tubs/yoghurt pots) and a brown bin for garden green rubbish (but not kitchen compsting stuff). The green bins are collected weekly, the brown bins fortnightly except in winter when it is 4 weekly and the blue bins are 4 weekly.

We are a family of 3 and downstairs are a family of 4 (including one still in disposible nappies) and we still manage to fill less than one green bin a week.

Both families also comport though.

Glass bottles we need to take oursevles to recyscling points.