Paying for carrier bags

[luciemule]

Just out of curiosity, would you still carry on using your main supermarket (say Tesco, or Sainsbury's) if they stopped giving you any carrier bags and said you either had to pay for them or use another method (eg -boxes or jute bags).

Would you simply go to a supermarket that didn't charge for them or go with the flow?

the effluent from paper plants is , quite frankly, disgusting. There is one not far from where I spent summers growing up, and when then wind was bad it would blow into to bay making the beaches in the area unusable, or at least going into the water

Yeah, right, Elusis, because I can really manage with four or five bags of shopping AND an umbrella.

I am being environmentally friendly by walking to the supermarket in the first place, I can really do without some half thought through policy making it impossible.

Sorry Eleusis, think you were being amusing while I was being grumpy!

I'm going to remember this the next time a British person tells me American don't get their jokes...

Sorry, cheesy one. Was just kidding. How bout an unbrella hat that you don't have to hold?

Your a better person than I am because I wouldn't walk in the rain without bags. I'd get in my car.

It all gets very messy.
When waste breaks down, it rarely produces good things.
Anything that once lived, tends to produce a mix of methane (which can catch fire or explode) and carbon dioxide which is no one's friend these days.
The fact that polythene lasts a very long time may actually be good.
Or bad.
It's not enough to say that that something's "natural", we need to work out what the breakdown sequence will be and manage it.

Almost the least important term is the space it occupies. Holes are easy to source.

I don't drive, Eleusis, so no option, really!

And PMSL at umbrella hat, btw, such a good look.

How about this one, edam? Cheap too!

i have asked my town council to look at banning carrier bags like Modbury did. i try to shop locally and carry a jute bag around. i get quite annoyed when i tell assistants that i don't require a plastic bag and they say "are you sure?"

i remember supermarkets used to charge you for carrier bags and used to have boxes for you to use.

a few supermarkets did try the plastic tubs but they never really took off, perhaps they should try again.