Plastic Bag 5p Charge

[jonny jeez]

It's an interesting question, the issue of dual use. Paying 5p each for dual-use carrierbag bin liners seems crazy when 95 of them cost £1 and would last me about eighteen months.

My local Tesco has a bin for people to return their 'unwanted' carrier bags. I collect all the plastic bags and packaging (not plastic trays though) from stuff I buy, bag it up and return it to them every so often so they can have the expense of dealing with it all. That's part of the way I can manage to use one bin liner a week, on average.

On the other hand, if you have already paid for them and they have performed their purpose...then they are now free and buying additional bin liners is a waste of a pound.

I do agree though, this practice will stop as just using more bags because it suits me to have a free bundle of them at home is daft, if I am paying for them. It also suits me because, much as we do this now, it grates with me as the bags are useless. They are Too small and are always tearing. Whereas the purpose built bags are bigger, with a drawstring and are just better...but I am never allowed to buy them as the store ones are "free"

Not any more though

 

[pplpilot]

Why spend 5p on a bag when you can get a trolly for a quid!

 

[vickster]

From what I've seen the tesco 5p ones are of a higher quality than the free ones were...no more poky out cucumbers
@Fnaar

 

[theclaud]

From what I've seen the tesco 5p ones are of a higher quality than the free ones were...no more poky out cucumbers
@Fnaar

 

[theclaud]

I'm not sure it will translate. The M&S move was driven by a "choice" to curtail bag use, which promoted its philosophy and marketing shift. Today's initiative is a statutory thing, so trusting the public not to put the store at risk of contravention of statutory compliance, seems a risky strategy.

I see this as a nightmare for the stores having to employ dedicated bag compliance officers Or maybe even stock auditors to ensure the store is complying with the law.

I totally agree with the charge,mor at least I agree with the reduction in the use of bags, so the charge seems a good attempt to change the social value of bag use etc....remains to be seen if it is actually better for the environment or not. What is better is that this issue has gained social acceptance.

Seems to work fine in M&S in Wales. Not that I'd be caught dead in such a middle-class establishment. Especially not trying to beat the pensioners to the reduced-price cream cakes.

 

[jonny jeez]

Seems to work fine in M&S in Wales. Not that I'd be caught dead in such a middle-class establishment. Especially not trying to beat the pensioners to the reduced-price cream cakes.

The trick is to watch their elbows, they have years of experience in deployment.

 

[mjr]

As much as I go there rarely, lidl have always charged for their bags and I've never seen abusive customers...and some of their customers don't look the most salubrious of individuals, I doubt they have been conditioned by M&S policy

I go there infrequently, but based on the quite international items on the checkout conveyors, maybe a decent chunk of local lidl and aldi patrons have shopped in other European countries, where plastic bags have cost money for years?

Did you bother to read the article? If you're not washing those cotton bags they're probably spreading germs. The whole business is just a joke.

The claim about bags spreading diseases just popped up again on another social network. Someone smarter than me linked to http://news.consumerreports.org/saf...gs-make-you-sick-or-is-that-just-baloney.html to refute it, which contains the lovely quote “A person eating an average bag of salad greens gets more exposure to these bacteria than if they had licked the insides of the dirtiest bag from this study,” says Michael Hansen, senior staff scientist at Consumers Union.

 

[vernon]

Fortnums are still supplying free hampers.

I still don't know what Fenton does with the empty ones.

 

[buggi]

I'm all for it. Anything that gets rid of plastic waste is fine by me. Already I've seen people refuse bags in shops today because they had to pay when they only had one item to carry, and my local shop is a bugger for only putting one or two items in each bag. I already use proper shopping bags and no matter how many times you use them before you discard them,I don't see any evidence of them wrapped round turtles. Talking of turtles, saw a video of one having a MacDonalds type plastic straw removed from his nose. The WHOLE thing.

 

[vernon]

Talking of turtles, saw a video of one having a MacDonalds type plastic straw removed from his nose. The WHOLE thing.

An occupational hazard of sneezing while snorting cocaine...

 

[subaqua]

An occupational hazard of sneezing while snorting cocaine...

i could tell you about the time I sneezed at my bachelor pad in N Wales, after partaking of some marching powder.

it is funny now but back then sneezing and seeing £200 of white powder off the coffee table into the air was not a move that enamoured me to my friends all waiting to have their turn.

 

[snorri]

Here is a link from a skeptical website that puts some simple facts down backed up with research.

I would go along with 'Benny from Cape Canaveral' who said of the article linked to.....I could not bring myself to read the entire article because it became obvious to me that you sir have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[vernon]

i could tell you about the time I sneezed at my bachelor pad in N Wales, after partaking of some marching powder.

it is funny now but back then sneezing and seeing £200 of white powder off the coffee table into the air was not a move that enamoured me to my friends all waiting to have their turn.

Like this?

 

[Racing roadkill]

You wouldn't believe the lengths I've been going to to avoid the charge today.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Talking of turtles, saw a video of one having a MacDonalds type plastic straw removed from his nose. The WHOLE thing.

His whole nose?