Carrier bags cost 5p each from 2015

[TheSmiler]

Excuse the link..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420464/Shoppers-charged-5p-plastic-bag-Victory-Mail-campaign-stores-ordered-act.html

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They used to make biodegradable bags. It was out of this wonderous modern hi tech material called paper. You could do all sorts of clever things with it too, like use it to start a proper fire or write darts scores on it. If you did the former the enviro-carbon police in hi viz suits would be out in force, and the latter now has some Android app to do it (obviously not for iphone, since Apple users would not be seen playing darts if they even know what a dart looks like).
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[JonB]

For a lot of people this won't make a jot of difference. The only time I would use a lot of bags would be on the weekly food shop and I now take my own bags anyway.

The only issue that bugs me, if it is like the Welsh system you get charged at a maccy d's drive through just because your food is in one of those paper bags!
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[doggone]

At supermarkets we use our own, but if you go in a High Street butcher or baker you often get a thin bag to carry 3 or things together - would they be included?

Although I'm as much against bags for the sake of it as anyone it is a bit of a joke when almost everything else in the supermarket comes wrapped in plastic or cardboard anyway.

Is there even a couple of grams of plastic in a thin carrier, and I expect it's made of at least part recycled stuff too.

[Skudd]

Well if my 5p carrier bag becomes faulty I will be wanting my money back, also I will be leaving my packaging at the store so to reduce the number of bags needed.
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[Rogerborg]

Fear not, the vastly greater amount of unnecessary packaging around the products themselves will still come included in the price.
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[dan_flash]

God you Brits love a trivial moan don't you...!?

Average 21 cents here for a bag. And on top of that - we lose out if we don't take all our bottles back to where we bought them, etc etc.
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[Skudd]

Any way I'm not sure if I want a "Bag for Life" after getting divorced from the last one I'm not sure I could commit again.
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[Rogerborg]

[Derivative]

What happens if I hang out outside supermarkets and sell my own carrier bags for 3p?

Or, even better, just give them away? I'm not allowed? Does that extend to me giving a bag to my friend within my home?

[Pigeon]

One supermarket loves to claim "all profits from sales of bags goes to the baby jesus"

It irks me, because it says "profit" not "revenue". So they are claiming the highground, but are pocketing the overheads first and who knows how they've calculated those. So the consumer is paying for something that used to come out of the supermarkets end.

Not saying we shouldn't, nor that we didn't pay for it ultimately anyway. It's just their choice of words to enable them to look the nuts when they are nuts with a c.

[Skudd]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Nowadays they'd probably have the guards fitted with some sort of safety harness so such accidents could be a thing of the past.
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[BTTD]

All my carrier bags get reused as rubbish bags in the garage.
I'm still going to need rubbish bags so net saving of plastic bags is nil, while the cost to me increases. Sounds like balls.

[Supermoto_Fan]

If it makes people think twice before having one for the tiniest amount of shopping then it's worthwhile. People just say yes automatically without thinking.
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[J0Al1]

TKMAX used to charge and dont any more