5p for a carrier bag

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3927331, member: 259"]Fnaar, if your bag for life breaks or wears out, you can take it back to the supermarket whence it came and they',ll give you a replacement free. In fact you can keep on doing it until you die.[/QUOTE]
Yep, I hadn't even left the checkout... it was instantly replaced... oh how we chuckled at the irony of it!

 

[subaqua]

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.

they do in Wales and in Scotland , so will likely do so in england.

makes getting a drive through to take to the shopping car park interesting.

oh and Scotland were first with smoking ban BTW NOT Wales.

 

[Cuchilo]

I asked at my local tesco how they where going to charge for the bags on the self service tills . They said they didn't know . It made me feel smug .

 

[nickyboy]

Are you sure that isn't cyclists

The cyclist speciality is to chuck the energy gel wrappers all over the place at the top of all the popular climbs. Nobbers and just as bad as motorists chucking KFC rubbish

 

[Sandra6]

Asda had removed their bags from " the fast lane " in preparation, I foresee a slogan on the shirt " ask me for a bag"

As for screenwash, its scented not flavoured, and having done the bitrex challenge I don't suggest you taste it.

 

[Paulus]

My biggest bugbear is the little sh*t bags for dogs. They are everywhere in the woods near me, far more unsightly in a natural wood than some dog poo

That always irks me. The person does the honorable thing and picks the poo up, then slings the bag into the bushes?? Why.

 

[Paulus]

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.

Sainsburys stopped giving bonus points months ago.

 

[Milkfloat]

Sainsburys stopped giving bonus points months ago.

The buggers did not tell me that!

 

[Flying Dodo]

Local one has had notices up for over a week now.

Still no mention of anything happening in the one in Harpenden.

 

[Speicher]

 

[nickyboy]

It appears from those photos that they throw accurately.

I think how fast you cycle will have a significant bearing on that issue

I, for example.....all a blur, yadda, yadda......warp speed

 

[Over The Hill]

All true. One of the good things about the new legislation, though, is not its direct impact - though that will be significant (the Welsh legislation has apparently halved the consumption of bags - that's a lot of plastic) - but the fact that it impinges on peoples' day to day existence in a way that well-meaning messages on the news just don't, keeping environmental issues on peoples' minds, generally. Some will baulk, obviously. But far more others will think twice, every day, not just about carrier bags, but about 'this kind of thing'. Anyway, 'every little helps', yes?

Looking at it from a marketing perspective - shops are presently hiding the environmental impact of their products by hiding the cost within the whole price (you presently pay for the "free" bag in the price of the goods in it) so to impose a split in the costs so that the enviro cost element is shown and also therefore able to be avoided must be good overall and actuall should not cost us more money

 

[SD1]

Were playing catch up with Scotland and Wales.

Anything that helps to reduce the number of them littering the streets and countryside has go to be a good thing.

I wonder how the Supermarket delivery services will address the charging for carriers.

They appear to ignore it now. I say no bags and they deliver everything in bags. How does a bag protect a bottle of cider? They left all the trays last week. Fit under the bed perfect.

 

[SD1]

PS where is the 5p is to little option?