Excess bag-gage

[TightEnd]

isn't this headline the whole point of it (multiple question and exclamation marks)

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[maccol]

Yes that's exactly it. Most people up here in Jockland now take bag-for-life type bags  with them as a matter of course. The result has been a net reduction of the order of 70%-80%

[MintTrav]

From Monday, Supermarkets & large retail chains will be charging 5p per carrier bag, after new legislation comes into force.

5p a bag soon adds up. When I spend £30 in Tescos, I need 3 bags, so that adds 5% to the bill.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/30/excess-baggage-will-5p-charge-finally-kill-the-plastic-bag

You could beat the system by changing your supermarket to Waitrose. Then, £30 worth of shopping will only require two bags, generating a saving of one-third in your bag costs.

[atdc21]

From Monday, Supermarkets & large retail chains will be charging 5p per carrier bag, after new legislation comes into force.

5p a bag soon adds up. When I spend £30 in Tescos, I need 3 bags, so that adds 5% to the bill.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/30/excess-baggage-will-5p-charge-finally-kill-the-plastic-bag

You could beat the system by changing your supermarket to Waitrose. Then, £30 worth of shopping will only require two bags, generating a saving of one-third in your bag costs.

BRILLIANT     

[celtic]

It was the lead story on the news this morning.

The second story was children are going to school hungry.

[vegaslover]

Tesco needs to sort it's self service tills out to cope with customers having their own bags imo. Tills fucked up so many times today the staff just stood at the till while I shopped as the 'unexpected item in bag' warning must of occured at least a dozen times today.

[EvilPie]

I invested £2.50 in a proper bag today. My first ever big boys shopping bag

Only 49 more trips 'til it's paid for itself....... Assuming I remember to take it of course.

[Woodsey]

I invested £2.50 in a proper bag today. My first ever big boys shopping bag

Only 49 more trips 'til it's paid for itself....... Assuming I remember to take it of course.

I've got 2 of 'em, reckon I remember then about 10% of the time, good luck lol

[tikay]

I had my first experience of the new system this morning. Tesco were giving away good quality bags last week, so I took 2 of them with me.

I use the "self-service" tills, & it was all a bit confusing, as you have to press buttons & things, but people will soon get used to it.

For me, though, I'll end up paying the 5p soon - I use those "use once & throwaway" bags at home as my "litter bins" for food packaging etc, then stick the bag in the wheely bin. I can't stick stuff in the wheely bin "loose" (as we used to with the old tin dustbins, God forbid) so the system is not really going to have much effect - I need an inexhaustible supply of new bags.

Broadly, for every bag I fill with groceries at Tesco, I then fill another with rubbish (mainly food packaging & waste food) from home.

[Woodsey]

I had my first experience of the new system this morning. Tesco were giving away good quality bags last week, so I took 2 of them with me.

I use the "self-service" tills, & it was all a bit confusing, as you have to press buttons & things, but people will soon get used to it.

For me, though, I'll end up paying the 5p soon - I use those "use once & throwaway" bags at home as my "litter bins" for food packaging etc, then stick the bag in the wheely bin. I can't stick stuff in the wheely bin "loose" (as we used to with the old tin dustbins, God forbid) so the system is not really going to have much effect - I need an inexhaustible supply of new bags.

Broadly, for every bag I fill with groceries at Tesco, I then fill another with rubbish (mainly food packaging & waste food) from home.

Was in sainsburys yesterday, the 5p bag they give now is different to the normal one they gave you before and actually pretty good, very reusable.

[tikay]

I had my first experience of the new system this morning. Tesco were giving away good quality bags last week, so I took 2 of them with me.

I use the "self-service" tills, & it was all a bit confusing, as you have to press buttons & things, but people will soon get used to it.

For me, though, I'll end up paying the 5p soon - I use those "use once & throwaway" bags at home as my "litter bins" for food packaging etc, then stick the bag in the wheely bin. I can't stick stuff in the wheely bin "loose" (as we used to with the old tin dustbins, God forbid) so the system is not really going to have much effect - I need an inexhaustible supply of new bags.

Broadly, for every bag I fill with groceries at Tesco, I then fill another with rubbish (mainly food packaging & waste food) from home.

Was in sainsburys yesterday, the 5p bag they give now is different to the normal one they gave you before and actually pretty good, very reusable.

Yes - but we still need a supply of bags at home to put stuff in the wheely bin.

If only someone could come up with the idea of bin liners.

[RED-DOG]

I had my first experience of the new system this morning. Tesco were giving away good quality bags last week, so I took 2 of them with me.

I use the "self-service" tills, & it was all a bit confusing, as you have to press buttons & things, but people will soon get used to it.

For me, though, I'll end up paying the 5p soon - I use those "use once & throwaway" bags at home as my "litter bins" for food packaging etc, then stick the bag in the wheely bin. I can't stick stuff in the wheely bin "loose" (as we used to with the old tin dustbins, God forbid) so the system is not really going to have much effect - I need an inexhaustible supply of new bags.

Broadly, for every bag I fill with groceries at Tesco, I then fill another with rubbish (mainly food packaging & waste food) from home.

Was in sainsburys yesterday, the 5p bag they give now is different to the normal one they gave you before and actually pretty good, very reusable.

Yes - but we still need a supply of bags at home to put stuff in the wheely bin.

If only someone could come up with the idea of bin liners.

Bin liners are no good for that job. They don't have handles to hook them on to the cupboard doors while yoy fill them.

[tikay]

I had my first experience of the new system this morning. Tesco were giving away good quality bags last week, so I took 2 of them with me.

I use the "self-service" tills, & it was all a bit confusing, as you have to press buttons & things, but people will soon get used to it.

For me, though, I'll end up paying the 5p soon - I use those "use once & throwaway" bags at home as my "litter bins" for food packaging etc, then stick the bag in the wheely bin. I can't stick stuff in the wheely bin "loose" (as we used to with the old tin dustbins, God forbid) so the system is not really going to have much effect - I need an inexhaustible supply of new bags.

Broadly, for every bag I fill with groceries at Tesco, I then fill another with rubbish (mainly food packaging & waste food) from home.

Was in sainsburys yesterday, the 5p bag they give now is different to the normal one they gave you before and actually pretty good, very reusable.

Yes - but we still need a supply of bags at home to put stuff in the wheely bin.

If only someone could come up with the idea of bin liners.

Bin liners are no good for that job. They don't have handles to hook them on to the cupboard doors while yoy fill them.

Ha, I use the same system. Hang them on the cupboard doors until they are full, ten dump them in the wheely, works perfectly.

Needs a constant flow of new bags though.

[RED-DOG]

How balla are we?

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[Karabiner]

Drawstring bin-liners do.