I might set up a stand outside my local Morrison’s selling all the bags I’ve collected and are sitting in the cupboard under the sink. They hark back to the age of being free, and I think I have hundreds.
I think it’s less the value of the bag and more that it’s making it less of an incentive to treat them as disposable.
Unfortunately, we as a culture have a littering problem. There are many ways to address it. Unfortunately they’ve resorted to that because enough people are dicks.
In the year 3000 our hands will have evolved into five times the size they are now so that we can just carry our shopping without needing a bag.
Who actually pays for carrier bags?
I’m so sick of this. I had to pay for a paper bag the other day, a PAPER BAG. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the initial issue and charge to do with the amount of PLASTIC bags we were getting through and the impact of plastic on the planet? Why am I being charged for a bag made from trees!??!
You’re supposed to bring your own, you dill pickle.
I’ll take a 0.47% rate of inflation for the next 975 years thanks.
This is actually a reality at my local Waitrose
Backpack. Solved.
So I mean it’s a way to try and reduce waste by putting people off spending stupid amounts on a plastic bag but I have noticed retailers are starting to take the piss with it a bit. I do feel a limit on the cost of these bags should be set for the ones that were designed to replace disposable plastic bags.
Some retailers offer a variation of carrier bags as well that doesn’t help. By all means deter people from wastage but don’t let companies exploit a situation either
Tbh the part I hate about not being able to get free carrier bags like these is cos we used to put them in bins as bin liners for the smaller ones we had in the house or use them for when we give some food or something to a relatives house. My mum has to put it in a bag and give it cos it’s weird just giving it like that according to her 😂
Just take a bag with you, how is it not automatic now?
Anyone who is annoyed about this needs to get in the sea (where ironically, you can have all the free plastic bags you want).
I’ve been stealing all the reusable bags from work
Oh you don’t want this? Don’t mind if I do
They should be £50 and the money should go to environmental or animal charities.
It started off as a good idea but has now become another way for supermarkets to make money.
I don’t mind the charge for disposable bags, my only issue is shops profiting from it. All money made from them after tax should be donated
Most times I will make sure I take a bag with me. On the off chance that I forget and I need one from the shop.. well, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I pay for a bloody plastic bag. As most shops have those self checkout bits now, I just take a bag, some staff have even watched me do it and say nothing. No way I’m paying £2 for a bag.
That song was kind of contradictory.
Not much has changed except we live under water?
I’d call that a massive motherfucking change right there
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I might set up a stand outside my local Morrison’s selling all the bags I’ve collected and are sitting in the cupboard under the sink. They hark back to the age of being free, and I think I have hundreds.
I think it’s less the value of the bag and more that it’s making it less of an incentive to treat them as disposable.
Unfortunately, we as a culture have a littering problem. There are many ways to address it. Unfortunately they’ve resorted to that because enough people are dicks.
In the year 3000 our hands will have evolved into five times the size they are now so that we can just carry our shopping without needing a bag.
Who actually pays for carrier bags?
I’m so sick of this. I had to pay for a paper bag the other day, a PAPER BAG. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the initial issue and charge to do with the amount of PLASTIC bags we were getting through and the impact of plastic on the planet? Why am I being charged for a bag made from trees!??!
You’re supposed to bring your own, you dill pickle.
I’ll take a 0.47% rate of inflation for the next 975 years thanks.
This is actually a reality at my local Waitrose
Backpack. Solved.
So I mean it’s a way to try and reduce waste by putting people off spending stupid amounts on a plastic bag but I have noticed retailers are starting to take the piss with it a bit. I do feel a limit on the cost of these bags should be set for the ones that were designed to replace disposable plastic bags.
Some retailers offer a variation of carrier bags as well that doesn’t help. By all means deter people from wastage but don’t let companies exploit a situation either
Tbh the part I hate about not being able to get free carrier bags like these is cos we used to put them in bins as bin liners for the smaller ones we had in the house or use them for when we give some food or something to a relatives house. My mum has to put it in a bag and give it cos it’s weird just giving it like that according to her 😂
Just take a bag with you, how is it not automatic now?
Anyone who is annoyed about this needs to get in the sea (where ironically, you can have all the free plastic bags you want).
I’ve been stealing all the reusable bags from work
Oh you don’t want this? Don’t mind if I do
They should be £50 and the money should go to environmental or animal charities.
It started off as a good idea but has now become another way for supermarkets to make money.
I don’t mind the charge for disposable bags, my only issue is shops profiting from it. All money made from them after tax should be donated
Most times I will make sure I take a bag with me. On the off chance that I forget and I need one from the shop.. well, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I pay for a bloody plastic bag. As most shops have those self checkout bits now, I just take a bag, some staff have even watched me do it and say nothing. No way I’m paying £2 for a bag.
That song was kind of contradictory.
Not much has changed except we live under water?
I’d call that a massive motherfucking change right there
“he’s fine except he’s dead”
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