Guilt trip to the supermarket

[meridian]

Co-op use biodegradable bags which disintegrate in < 1 year

< the time it takes to get from the storefront to your car

[BoredBloke]

Not sure I see the issue over plastic bags. plastic can be recycled can't it?

I recycle all of mine - I use them as bin bags. OK they all end up ina land fill somewhere, but at least they are not all contained inside another plastic bag.

[NotAllThere]

Co-op use biodegradable bags which disintegrate in < 1 year

Unfortunately, they disintegrate into radioactive dioxin.

...or something.

[AtW]

Unfortunately, they disintegrate into radioactive dioxin.

...or something.

If it's meta-dioxin then it should be allright...

[Lucifer Box]

Unfortunately, they disintegrate into radioactive dioxin.

...or something.

They disintegrate into Co-Op meat and potato pies, except nicer tasting.

[hyperD]

The patronising little cow on the till asked if I wanted to "buy a bag for life?"

I would have said: "Buy one? I tuliping married one, why would want to buy one?"

[PAH]

I do my bit to save the planet by re-using the bags next time I go shopping. Would be more effective though if I remembered to take them more often.

Other than that I give them to friends who are obsessed with doing car boots at the weekend, so they can bag up their tat for their customers.

[SueEllen]

In my local Sainsburys yesterday they decided they would hide the free carrier bags in some kind of attempt to preach to the customers on global warming.

Nope it's nothing to do with that.

Supermarkets have been warned the if they don't get the number of bags they give away down, then Gordon Brown will introduce a new law to ensure they do in the next budget.

Hence M&S are giving away free bags during this month with your shopping and will start charging for them next month.

[PAH]

Why's it so difficult to make them out of recyclable plastic? There would be no issue then.

Unless the supermarkets are using it as an excuse to make some money charging for them. You only need to look at the amount of overpackaging supermarkets already supply to see their green intentions are ultimately driven by profit.

[hyperD]

Many years ago in Hungary, people used to bring their own bags to do shopping as quite simply, shops couldn't afford any plastic ones.

Now that Tesco have invaded, everyone expects all shops to have free plastic bags.

Funny old world...