Tightest shop in sheffield???

[poppins]

My local supermarket has started selling canvas bags now, with their name and logo on, now they have free advertising too, also the bags are so small you would need 10 of them to fit a weeks shopping in.

[jaiden]

it's good idea , maybe people will now think twice about hanging them all over the trees full of dog poo.

[rhythm_bound]

it's good idea , maybe people will now think twice about hanging them all over the trees full of dog poo.

 

Where do you live?

[DaFoot]

How many people though honestly go to the supermarket and before they set think "Oh got to take my own bags" you don't do you, you just pick up more when you get there and then most likely bin them when you get home or use them as a bin!

 

Yep. Have done my best to take my own bags with me for the weekly shop since about the time I started at uni (96). At the time it would have been because a backpack/rucksack is more comfortable to carry than 'carrier' bags though.

 

Later it became a principle thing - hate seeing empty bags blowing around in our already messy cities.

[jaiden]

Where do you live?

 

next to a woodland walk where people think it's ok to pick the dog crap up then just hang it on the nearest branch or fence post although there are poo bins provided.

[Tets]

I was a shop manager for 30 years and during that time our owners forced us,at times ,to sell the plastic bags. They never have loved giving bags away. They'll be glad to get on this bandwagon. They can still give a paper bag,or a carrier bag, as they used to-----but bet they won't. I read on Teletex yesterday of a person who put some documents in a plastic bag and stowed them away on top of his wardrobe. Four years later the bag disintegrated into dust in his hand when he tried to pick it up. That didn't take thousands of years as we are being conned into believing. If anything changes suddenly,always consider the financial aspect first. The root is usually there.

[LJB23]

Places like chippies have been charging for bags for years, this isn't anything to do with helping the environment it's just to get some more money off you. You think if they charge 3-5p per bag and the amount of chips and fish they sell over a week, nice little earber that!

[rhythm_bound]

Places like chippies have been charging for bags for years, this isn't anything to do with helping the environment it's just to get some more money off you. You think if they charge 3-5p per bag and the amount of chips and fish they sell over a week, nice little earber that!

 

But that isn't really the point is it. I couldn't care less if some chippy owner makes a few out of selling plastic bags. Too many people use far too many bags which equates to billions of bags per year. Just look in any shop and there will be some muppet putting a tin of beans into a bag a walking of. Most bags used are not necessary. If EVERYWHERE starts charging, supermakets, chippies etc then people who use bag after bag will perhaps start to stop using quite so many. The issue is reducing the number of bags used and if some shop keeper makes some money out of this so be it, I couldn't care less. Just stop being a bunch of wastefull little critters and develop some morals.

[LJB23]

I understand people are trying to save the environment but is it not too little too late? I think people will just pay the 5p and still use as many bags, only a small majority will re-use bags unless like ireland they get banned.

[rhythm_bound]

No, its not! The majority of people I know are now using bags for life or recycling bags they already have. People just need to stop looking for excuses and accept they they have a responsibility to stop causing environmental damage.