Thing is mate, it just goes to show, even when as a consumer you try to do the right thing, the companies you buy from mug you off. Yet a lot of the time they try to blame the consumer. It's like plastic carrier bags, supermarkets still give them to me in deliveries, even though I know they can do paper bags, and have done so, it's a joke.
Nail on the head there mate. The recent scenes on Bournemouth beach with all of that litter was a very one sided story. Yes folk need to clear up after themselves, but not one media outlet raised the question about why companies produce so much excess packaging made from plastic in the first place. The materials are out there. Like you say, paper bags. Glass bottles, cardboard containers. You can even get disposable cups and cutlery made from compostable materials these days. There's not really any excuse for wrapping everything in a ton of plastic anymore.
well you can **** off with glass bottles for a kick off 1. They are hardly ever reused 2. In this country recycling is to do with landfill planning permission problems rather than due to a true green audit and the real nail in the coffin 3. Orrible little ****ers keep breaking them giving me punctures
My suspicion is that supermarkets are profiteering off it, for example, they used to supply FREE plastic bags by the pallet load to customers, we are talking thousands every day, just for one supermarket, which goes into millions for a chain. So they no longer have that cost. Now, they charge customers for deliveries, built into that charge is the picking and bagging (ie plastic bags). Yet they could supply paper bags, but they don't and they probably don't because they cost more than the plastic ones that they have a surplus (profit and loss). I expect a lot of this **** is under contract with the manufacturing companies, at a guess.
You can buy a paper bag in Morrisons for 25p but a plastic one will cost 10p. There's part of the problem.
Exactly! The paper ones are pretty decent, if they cost 25p then charge me 25p, so for every 4 bags you pay a quid. Until someone comes up with a better method. Tbph, I expect those paper ones would hold more weight and contents than the cheap nasty plastic ones.
Thats because it is more expensive to make the paper one strong enough to carry a decent load . Also on a serious note you need a proper audit to check resources consumed per usage or you may find the alternatives themselves have their own drawbacks .
The idea of those heavy duty paper ones is that they are reusable. But most folk just forget, buy another one and end up with a **** off big stash of resuable bags at home lol. The way to really make it work is to ban plastic bags and then charge something like £3 for a really sturdy reusable one. Folk would soon remember to take their bags with them then !
Yep, covered this a bit above. The aim is to stop people from keep using single use/ disposable packaging/bags and encourage reusable containers. A good study plastic bag that's used a hundred times is always going to be better than a hundred paper bags that are manufactured and then thrown away
I would never bin the paper ones, they are really decent quality. I used one of them recently, to store a surplus of onions i had, absolutely ideal.
most people were pre lockdown but there has been a proliferation of them due to home deliveries / click & collect . I've gone from having 6 "bags for life" to have them plus 300 plastic bags though tbf some of the rearly deliveries were using really strong plastic bags but now back to standard ones .
Don't understand why the deliveries have to be in plastic bags at all. Surely they could pack them in cardboard boxes ?
Pretty sure most of those wheelie trollies were empty most of the time too, the way some of the old biddies whizzed about with them.
She buys the heavy duty bags, the reusable ones..... We got a tallboy cupboard with about a monkey’s worth of the ****ers in it
