Reusable plastic bags won't solve all environmental issues
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Plastic carrier bags
At the same store a few months previously I stood behind a couple at the till and was served up a pious and overly loud diatribe about how damaging 'single use' bags are and how people who use them are irresponsible.
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I am fed up to the back teeth with the 'nanny' politics surrounding supermarket plastic carrier bags. Please can the anti-bag 'police' just pipe down a bit and let some balance and proportion come back into the debate?
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| 10-3-2010 | If I am going on a supermarket shop, I remember to take my re-usable bags.
If I do a spur of the moment shop, I expect a free carrier. The Spar are terrible at this though. They don't provide single use carriers, only 10p re-usables.
I got fed up with the pile of re-usabled bags I had col...more | BaggedOut |
| 14-2-2010 | has anybody noticed that some shops only have tiny tiny carrier bags that will only just fit a few sweets then you stand there struggling to bunch them together and put one item in each one....the checkout person grunts a few times whilst agressively pointing at a rack filled to bursting with £...more | keep the change ya filthy animal |
| 14-2-2010 | A nice little earner, 60p, what sorry, 3 carrier bags 20p each. sir....its for the environment....actually its because we dont give you cardboard boxes like we did in the 80's because we sell those by weight to get recycled and they get shipped to china and made into new boxes for next years th...more | doink doink |
| 17-1-2010 | One in three tv sets that arrive at the tip still works, so do a lot of other things, computers, tools, lawnmowers ect,(I know someone who works there)
A conservative guess at the "average" age of items dumped there, would be well less than ten years old,
And yet carrier bags seem t...more | Gainsborough lad. |
| 17-1-2010 | I re-use my single use carrier bags because in a way I dont like waste so wont throw them away and have a cupboard full of them at home. I re-use them to stop me from adding to my collection and also because I get extra clubcard points. if I shop on spur of the moment or forget my bags I have never...more | anon |
| 27-12-2009 | Since it now is a thing of the past to expect that there will be carrier bags at the checkout in our local Tesco, I have bought numerous of their bags for life, BUT, just how long is life? as the handles regularly break on the day of purchase. I have pointed this out to customer services, and was ...more | Magz |
| 20-12-2009 | Apology accepted Rori, btw are you jewish? I do my bit for the enviroment anyway I throw all my old newspapers and plastic cartons on the coalfire to keep my frontroom warm. | Lenny the Lion |
| 15-11-2009 | When the world ends you will burnt/cremated in a recycled plastic bag on top of a pile of logs cut down from an Amazonian forest. They said you were irreplaceable. But I don't believe them. I married an old carrier bag, and we ended up in land-fill. For fifteen years we were on the council-hous...more | Incineration Generation |
| 15-11-2009 | Youthful Griper, Grumpyoldwoman & Gainsborough Lad & others
I have a fridge freezer that is 20 years old, I forget how long I have had the microwave but it is the only one I have ever had and my armchairs came to me third hand. I buy new stuff only when the old runs out.
I don’t...more | Rori |
| 11-11-2009 | Grumpyoldwoman, yes, that will never end up down the tip, I can see it on antiques roadshow in 2350 ad. | Gainsborough lad. |
| 10-11-2009 | I hate the way Sainsbury's checkout people ask, "Do you have your own bags?". "Yes, that's why I'm stood here with all of my shopping piling up (with no bags in my hands)". | Me |
| 10-11-2009 | Wow, GL, that's a big one! A very worthwhile investment I should think; a place for everything and everything in it's place.
grumpyoldwoman | GRUMPYOLDWOMAN |
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