Supermarket plastic bag recycling

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I was just wondering what items can be put in there and what other people do.

I don’t have any carrier bags to recycle but I’ve been storing up things like bread bags and any other bags that come from grocery items.

I told a friend I did this (clutched pearls) and she thought it was just meant for actual carrier bags.

As far as I know it's anything that is made of the same type of plastic as carrier bags that can go in there, so I put (clean and dry) bread bags, plastic wrappings (the kind that comes on multipacks of cans/tins), freezer bags etc. A lot of it says 'recycle with carrier bags' on the packaging so it must be fine! This link explains?

www.recyclenow.com/what-to-do-with/plastic-film

I've taken to removing as much plastic as I can from supermarket shopping and handing it back to them. Anyone with me squirms uncomfortably, but they're getting used to it. Sainsburys tried to direct me to their recycling bins, but I felt that it was their problem not mine. Other supermarkets' reaction vary from helpful to surprised, but all have taken the plastic back.

I guess I need to start remembering my plastic as well as my bags when I go to a supermarket, if I'm going to do this properly.

Many thanks for this. . Really useful.

That RecycleNow website is excellent. I’ve taken a massive amount of eligible plastic that I’ve been storing to bag recycling atTesco. I notice that the Tesco one near me says “carrier bags” but the Sainsbury’s one says “plastic bags”. I had a delivery from Next and the plastic wrapping had the RecycleNow logo on it.

Cynderella, yes I know what you mean. I used to work in FMCG consumer products and the Germans would do this 20 years ago. I noticed that the produce bags in Waitrose are recyclable and could double up as a food waste caddy liner. I’d like to see more supermarkets doing that.

Actually sorry, I think the Waitrose bags say they’re compostable.

Often if you Google plastic bag recycling you can jump to the part of their own website which tells you. I use Morrison's who say everything like carriers, bread bags, cereal bags etc all fine.

I actually just found this, so good on Tesco (if you have one near you):
inews.co.uk/news/consumer/tesco-recycling-scheme-soft-plastics-bread-bags-crisp-packets-504375?amp