5 pence

[securespark]

yummy mummies

Drool......!!

goat feather boots

Pant.......!!

 

[xerxes]

Sainsbury's are putting up large signs inside and outside their stores proclaiming their commitment to the reduction in the use of plastic bags.

The signs are made from, er, plastic.

 

[securespark]

It's to stop the bags going to landfill thus polluting the planet.

How does sticking plassy bags underground pollute the planet? It's all feckin rocks down there anyway.

Not just underground. Read this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/caring/article.html?in_article_id=431217&in_page_id=511

This quote:

Even when they do break down they leech toxins into the ground.

From here: http://www.customplasticbagsdirect.com/poba.html

 

[sooey]

Yes well, obviously they can pollute the planet if they ain't stuck underground. But that's beside the point I was asking about.
As for the releasing toxins bit, the Earth is full of all kinds of them.

 

[conny]

As for the releasing toxins bit, the Earth is full of all kinds of them.

So why add to it?
Enough is enough and someone has to be the first to try and stop.

 

[seco services]

who needs a bag in bq ?

i make sure its in my pocket before i get to the till.

 

[dextrous]

In France (amongst other countries most likely) they don't provide plastic bags in most supermarkets at all - you have to remember to bring your own. After the first shop, you don't forget on subsequent visits. Makes sense to me.

 

[very_pointy_ears]

It's to stop the bags going to landfill thus polluting the planet.

How does sticking plassy bags underground pollute the planet? It's all feckin rocks down there anyway.

That's hardly the point and besides, if memory serves me correctly a surprising quntity (something like 35%) of plastic bags used in this country end up blowing into the sea and creating havoc for sea life. And as someone else said, there's an environmental cost to producing them in the first place.

 

[sooey]

The point I was making was that it's not the buried bags that pollute the planet, it's all the unburied ones. There again, rereading Joe's post he may have meant it that way anyway.

 

[tim west]

If they attached velcro to the outside packaging of your goods you could stick them all together and carry them all in one big lump

 

[Steve]

If they attached velcro to the outside packaging of your goods you could stick them all together and carry them all in one big lump

In my shop we ask the customer if they have their own bag. If they dont, and they dont pick up a 10p bag for life, we simply give them a small free carrier bag (its very weak though lol)

 

[ColJack]

give them one of those hessian bags every time they need one and charge them 35p..
they get a refund if they bring it back...

I've got 2 freezer bags, 2 bottle bags and 2 of the sturdy sainsbury bags, but often forget to load them back into the car when I've bought the shopping in.. or just drop in on the way back from work and don't have them with me..

our local sainsburys has the wine boxes piled up for the customers if they want to use them..
used to be that most supermarkets did this with the apple boxes and such, but since the drive for "reducing the packaging", not many things come in substantial boxes now..

we don't seem to have taken on the american idea of "paper or plastic"..
you get a choice over there..

 

[seco services]

id just take the whole trolley home.
they'll soon come and collect it.

 

[ColJack]

cheap enough at a pond a time, we had 4 at work..

they worked for one of the big supermarkets and often used a trolley to cart all the stuff round the store to get where they needed to..

quite often on the way home they'd just lift the trolley into the back of the van with the kit still in it and bring it back next day to carry on working..
once or twice they got pulled off the job and forgot to take it back..

since woolies went under and sold everything, shelves and all, who bought all the trolleys?

 

[namsag]

Personally i just send the bag shopping by her self