5p for a carrier bag

[deptfordmarmoset]

http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15400 Here you go. They call them caddy bags.

Cheers Martin. I did a search for caddy bags and I got this...

I said bags not bugs! I'll have a look in there later.

 

[Sandra6]

I'm all for it, and from experience charging for bags discourages people taking one they don't actually need.
" you'd like a carrier bag for that 50p discounted airfreshener the size of a fifty pence piece? Certainly. 5p. Oh? You don't need one after all? Thank you and goodbye"

Shops have always been at liberty to charge for their bags and most of them chose not to. Now they have to by law. There are some exceptions but I'm not curious enough to find out what they are.

Main exemptions are for smaller businesses with fewer than 250 employees and for " sensitive" items, such as prescriptions or dangerous ones, like knives.

Home delivery has a flat 40p charge for the use of carrier bags per delivery.

Shaun

Thanks for that Shaun, I did wonder if they'd charge for the 2 dozen bags they insist on using when 3 would suffice!

Drago makes a good point but taking it further, we seem to just buy stuff that is over packaged and disposable.

Halfords for example used to sell concentrated washer fluid so the 500mil bottle made 20 Litres of fluid. I have one 5litre bottle that has lasted me 10 years by making up my own from concentrate. Now they have stopped selling it and only sell 5 litre bottles that are 95% water (or something like that).
Everyone seems to buy drinks made up in a single use container. Buying bottles of water and fizzy drinks. Then there is the whole culture of just buying cheap crap that then gets thrown away and replaced.
The carrier bag is just the outer layer of a much bigger problem.

Halfords still sell concentrated screen wash. Lemon and lime or berry scented.

 

[nickyboy]

Just popped into Tesco and they are giving away "bags for life" ie. take one, when it finally expires bring it back and they'll give you another.

It is a small thing, but it's a small thing that further contributes to the changing of people's mindsets about using resources and that's what's really important

 

[hopless500]

I use my own bags and don't mind the idea of paying for plastic bags. Bit of a bummer when it comes to the useful placcy bag stash though. What am I going to empty the cat litter into now?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Who's going to decline a carrier bag based on cost (be it 1p or £1), where the only alternative is to leave all your shopping at the till because you can't carry it home? In my mind you either offer bags for life at £1, or nothing at all. If you're forced to spend £5 on BFL, you;ll soon remember to bring them with you the next time. And if you're only buying fags and a pasty then you shouldn't need a bag. The Supermarkets and big stores are once again the problem; they think that if they try to enforce green initiatives then they'll lose customers.

There is nowhere near enough capacity to enforce litter dropping fines, so the only option is to attack the issue at it's source. People will always pay for carrier bags when the price is so low, so it's a bit like telling a teenager that they'll have 1p less pocket money if they're naughty. They won't care.

 

[Milkfloat]

The supermarkets must be loving this - they save a fortune on providing free bags and can also drop the bonus points they gave for using your own bag, all whilst blaming the government.

 

[Fnaar]

I managed to rip a "bag for life" at the checkout once... was trying to fit 3 boxes of cereal into it.

I'm wholeheartedly in favour of charging for bags/encouraging you to bring your own. The amount of plastic pollution in this world is truly shocking. We should have done it years ago.

 

[Stephenite]

I managed to rip a "bag for life" at the checkout once... was trying to fit 3 boxes of WINE into it.

The amount is truly shocking.

FTFY

 

[Fubar]

I remember being charged 5p in Boots in Dublin in early 2000's and being outraged! But since it came in up here it really is no big deal, though I get really annoyed if we have to buy a bag 'cos we've not brought enough of our own.

 

[Stephenite]

They cost 10p here in Norway. You've gotten off lightly. And we have 10p deposit on plastic bottles - going up to 25p for 1.5l bottles. With the option, upon return, to donate the deposit to the Red Cross. Bluddy savages you lot.

 

[Over The Hill]

I'm all for it, and from experience charging for bags discourages people taking one they don't actually need.
" you'd like a carrier bag for that 50p discounted airfreshener the size of a fifty pence piece? Certainly. 5p. Oh? You don't need one after all? Thank you and goodbye"

Main exemptions are for smaller businesses with fewer than 250 employees and for " sensitive" items, such as prescriptions or dangerous ones, like knives.


Thanks for that Shaun, I did wonder if they'd charge for the 2 dozen bags they insist on using when 3 would suffice!


Halfords still sell concentrated screen wash. Lemon and lime or berry scented.

Just looked on line and see they do-
They used to stock 1L of Comma screenwash that would make 10L of screenwash. Cost £2.90
Now they have 2L of cherry flavour screenwash that still makes 10L (at best) and costs £5.99!
But website says it has a special additive to stop kids drinking it!! Sort of think if you did not make it cherry flavour and left it blue colour then they would not be trying to drink it.
I have managed to find the Comma stuff in a motor factors so go there now. It is a bit blokey so have not ventured in with my hessian bag for life.

Jumpers for goalposts.

 

[raleighnut]

About time yon McDonalds started charging for their brown bags! You know, the ones that get dropped by fecking slobs with their contents spewed all over the road.

There is some pillock that stuffs em midway up my hedge at the front of the house, I wouldn't mind but the nearest McDonalds is 3 miles away (Meridian South in Leicester) so I guess they're driving a car.

 

[snorri]

I just don't know what I'm going to do with all the extra space in house and garage in 10 years time when I've used up my stash of once used poly carrier bags.
The only time I've paid for a bag since the ban came in was at the chip shop where I hoped the extra expenditure would help retain a little heat on my way home.
There's always an empty cardboard box in the supermarket if I've not got my usual shopping box with me, so no inconvenience there.
The reduction in windblown litter since the free bag ban has in itself made the whole scheme worthwhile IMO.

 

[nickyboy]

There is some pillock that stuffs em midway up my hedge at the front of the house, I wouldn't mind but the nearest McDonalds is 3 miles away (Meridian South in Leicester) so I guess they're driving a car.

Don't farking remind me. I live on the edge of a beautiful National Park. Glossop has a KFC and, just down the road there's a McD.

What happens is carloads of folk get a drivethrough McD/KFC then set off on the long drive through the National Park. They finish said grub. Instead of hanging onto the rubbish, they chuck it out of the car window. Result: beautiful National Park with burger cartons by the sides of the roads

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I bet Ronnie Pickering won't be paying for his plastic bags.

he pays with sandwiches ............... knuckle sandwiches INIT