I recently acquired a "bag for life" and am now making a conscious effort to use it and NOT to use other "new" plastic bags. It was shocking to hear on a TV nature programme how many bags end up at the sesside and how they endanger wildlife (eg by being swallowed by birds). Shouldn't we ALL be making an effort to use less plastic bags - especially when so many Supermarkets are offering these "bags for life" now?
2006-09-07 23:45:20 · 11 answers · asked by big pup in a small bath 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
WE ARE WAY TOO CAVALIER WITH PLASTIC BAGS. Ain't that the truth. I always take my own plastic bags to the supermarket, and those clear plastic ones you use for fruit and veg, coz I'm a girlie swot. At least they get a couple of uses rather than chucking them out straight away. I get a kick out of using secondhand Asda or Lidl bags at Waitrose too. Hah!
2006-09-07 23:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by Boingy Tigger 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree.
I use a string bag which fits easily into my backpack. I still haven't found a limit to how much I can fit into it. The limiting factor is how much weight I can carry. I then transfer the shopping into my cycle's saddlebags or cycle trailer if I am doing a really big shop. Since I can wheel the bike from shop to shop in town and then just jump on and cycle home this is quicker and less tiring than carrying lots of bags around town and then to the car park. At the supermarket I just stick everything back in the trolley and wheel it over to the bike.
2006-09-08 07:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by felineroche 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many shops in Australia offer the cotton carry bags which can be reused over and over again. These are not expensive to buy.
Some others charge a price for the plastic bags thus discouraging customers from using them.
If only every one would follow the suite.....world would be a better place and the wild life will not suffer.
2006-09-08 06:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by kalidas_b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here in Ireland we have a plastic bag levy, your charged 15cent for each plactic bag you get in the supermarkets and shops, since this came in most shops brought in paper bags and bags for life. It worked great for the first year but people are slowly starting to get back in to using the plastic bags and the charge doesn't bother them, now there are talks of upping to levy again which i think is a very good thing to do!! then people will start using their bags for life again!
2006-09-08 06:55:03 · answer #4 · answered by shortpeg2001 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definiely, i use so many plastic bags, ive just thrown hundreds, filled a massive bin bag+
Bag for life very cool idea, plastic is good on the hoof, or in a emergency.
2006-09-08 08:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by HOPE 4 THE FUTURE: 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES! please can everyone be a bit more environmentally conscious and reuse your carrier bags - I always reuse mine and always have done and am appalled by other shoppers in supermarkets who seem to want to take away as many bags as they can with their shopping. I'm on the verge of accosting every shopper I see doing this and giving them a lecture. thank you for making this point. oh and i forgot to mention that I was recently reprimanded in Sainsbury for using a Tesco bag for life - and the checkout girl really wasn't joking I promise!
2006-09-08 06:56:53 · answer #6 · answered by Hill 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I am a round head!
I use an old fashioned shopping basket when I shop!
I think we Brits should copy Americans and use paper bags in supermarkets. They are recycled and are fantastic for using to post parcels.
2006-09-08 06:56:44 · answer #7 · answered by Nicola H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I read an account by someone who spent four years in Tibet. She said that out there, plastic shopping bags are one of the most useful commodities you can find, brought from the West! We don't appreciate our riches.
2006-09-08 06:55:52 · answer #8 · answered by kittybriton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we should!
Slightly apart from this though, think of all the money/resources/energy etc... we waste on producing elaborate packaging which the consumer will simply throw away.
We (all of us I guess) needs to change the way we shop, and try and think about the thing we are buying, not the pretty pack it is in.
2006-09-08 06:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by HP 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep definately. Tesco are doing their bit, if you take your own bags (any bags) instead of using new ones, they give you clubcard points. I think the points idea is probably a bit worthless, but at least it's encouraging the right idea, bringing it to people's attention
2006-09-08 06:55:08 · answer #10 · answered by Hellbell73 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋