Questionairre on paper and plastic bags?

Question

Hi could you please fill in this short questionairre about paper and plastic carrier bags.


1. When you go shopping are the retailers supplying paper or plastic bags? i.e. Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys.

2. How do you feel about the threat of plastic bags on the environment? please indicate

Not bothered Deep concern Dont know enough about the subject

3. Do you recycle old plastic carrier bags?

4. If a celebrity was to get behind the campaign would it encourage you use less plastic?


Thanks for your time. Please send your answers back to me. If you have any other comments please include them.

Answer 1

1) Plastic
2) None
3) Reuse, not Recycle
4) No, Why?

Answer 2

1. Still supply plastic, but encourage use of own bags, and take plastic back for recycling.

2. Very concerned.

3. Use own non plastic bags, and the few plastic that do come my way are recycled.

4. A celebrity wouldn't make any difference to me, personally, but one may encourage a few more people to use less, and be more careful when it comes to disposal.

Many of the smaller retailers ask if you would like a bag.

It's not just plastic carrier bags we should be concerned about, but all plastic packaging.

Answer 3

Plastic, I can re use a plastic bag. I've had the same 4 re-usable bags for over 2 years now and they are still going strong, like to see a paper one do that. I would prefer a natural fibre one, but have you seen what shops charge for those? My girlfriend tells me paper bags take a lot more energy to produce too

Answer 4

1. nearly every store uses plastic bags. The grocers no longer ask if you want paper or plastic, although they do have paper if you insist.

2. Concerned, since plastic does not decay as fast as other materials. Mostly, because it's time to stop putting our trash into landfills. It's time to turn the trash into new materials. Someday, there will be companies, 'mining' the old landfills for resources to produce products and to make paper.

If you look at many lesser developed countries, some of their poorest people make a living (a poor living) 'mining' the refuse of the better to do people and selling it to recyclers. That day will come for all countries, but for items that today, we leave as trash, i.e., composting meal waste, recycling all paper, plastic, metals, etc.

3. Yes, we recycle plastic bags, for use a plastic bags by the food pantry. We also recycle other items, all plastics, paper, metal, tires, batteries, etc.

4. It would not make a difference to me if a celebrity got behind recycling. But, I think it would raise the awareness of the general public.

Answer 5

1. half of the places offer both plastic and paper. All of the ones offering plastic, have that really thin plastic bag that doesn't hold any weight at all and tears very easily--throughly useless to the consumer and a waste of resources and energy to make them. I have seen several places begin to market canvas shopping bags.

2. somewhere between not bothered and deep concern. The whole burying the trash thing upsets me more, nothing decomposes quickly (and in some cases not at all) when it can't get air and water to it.

3. when I get the plastic bags, yes I reuse and recycle them.

4. no, celebrities don't influence my life choices. A well presented and logical argument will though.

Answer 6

. When you go shopping are the retailers supplying paper or plastic bags? Paper bags (pathmark, bjz, ).

2. How do you feel about the threat of plastic bags on the environment? It is not good we need to go green

3. Do you recycle old plastic carrier bags? yes i do

4. If a celebrity was to get behind the campaign would it encourage you use less plastic? i already use less plastic

Answer 7

1. Retailers primarily supply plastic, but I ask for paper
2. I am deeper concerned about plastic bags in the environment -- they are energetically costly to produce and are never disposed of properly. I hate it when i see plastic bags flying around or floating in lakes and rivers. It makes me think of the poor sea turtles who eat them thinking theyre jellyfish.
3. I reuse then recycle plastic bags if I get them, or I use cloth bags.
4. Depends which celebrity. My behavior usually is not influenced by celebrity actions, but celebrities can be useful in creating awareness.

Answer 8

1. Yes, but they also encourage the use of "green" bags where you get clubcard points for not using a carrier bag - Tesco.

2. Don't know enough about the subject.

3. Yes i do.

4. No.

Answer 9

1. Plastic
2. Concerned, but paper's not much better since it destroys natural resources (i.e. deforestation). "Plastic" bags can be made of corn and other "renewable" vegetable oils. This seems the best solution (second best after reusabel cloth ones).
3. Recyle most of them. Some I reuse as lunch bags or to hold nasty stuff that goes in the trash.
4. No.

Answer 10

1. I try to avoid the major supermarkets because of their wasteful approach to packaging (check out the old display stands, packaging in the skips). I use my bike to shop at local independent retailers.
2. Concerned. Too easy and convenient to use without thinking.
3. Always
4. I hope I think for myself (and the environment). But some leadership on this from someone might help.

90% of car journeys are less than 2 miles long. Travel that could easily be replaced by walking/cycling/public transport.

Answer 11

I carry a jute bag to the shop.

They are terrible. Choke up storm drains. Cattle die swallowing them. Much else besides. Deeply bothered.

I reuse them many times for various purposes. Finally the rag pickers collect them for the recyclers.

Do not care much for them. After one such appearance the park where they campaigned was almost completely covered with dumped plastic waste.

This is not the place to vent all my feelings on this subject.