I know it's not very blokey, but it's very easy to take your own reusable bags to the supermarket.
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Quote: zooo @ 4th June 2014, 2:10 PM BSTI know it's not very blokey, but it's very easy to take your own reusable bags to the supermarket.
You are a child of the world, RCP. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Do you people have to go to the supermarket yourselves??
Alas we can't all have probation officers notorious
Does anybody remember the days of Safeway when they supplied heavy brown paper bags for your shopping? They were strong enough to be used for lots of things (though not as a sick bag as I learned to my cost when one of the boys was car sick on a day out).
Re packaging - when the freezer's filling up near Christmas, I remove all packaging and decant to freezer bags. It's bloody ridiculous how much packaging is thrown out and how much extra space there is after it.
I used to buy a green plastic crate from Safeway. Only a couple of quid and I did reuse them.
Quote: zooo @ 4th June 2014, 2:10 PM BSTI know it's not very blokey, but it's very easy to take your own reusable bags to the supermarket.
But what if you just want to buy a bottle of wine on the way home. It's alright for chicks, they usually go everywhere with a bag, what's one more to them? But for free wheeling, no ties, adventurous spirits like myself, poncing around with a giant girl bag is a no-no.
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 4th June 2014, 2:52 PM BSTYou are a child of the world, RCP. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
It's better then being a Jimmy Savile of the world. 
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ 4th June 2014, 3:13 PM BSTPlastic bags and packaging are a menace.
Forget taxing the retailers and/or the public - hit the manufacturers who don't invest a certain proportion of their profits into research into degradable plastics.. and give them a tax incentive if they do.
It has to be sorted out - those who say such things as: "Plastics degrade over 500 years or so, which is the blink of an eye in a cosmological sense - so what's the problem?" are forgetting the fact that the pile of 'slowly'-degradable plastic is being added to every day and will continue so to be, ad infinitum, unless something is done.
The way things are at the moment, that '500 years' will always be 500 years in the future, no matter how long the planet lasts.
I agree with your hitting the manufacturers. The rest of your 'chicken littling' concerning carrier bags is laughable. Your 'unless something is done' is very melodramatic, but entirely silly. Nature is extremely robust, plants and animals have returned to Chernobyl and are thriving - I don't think a few plastic bags are much for Mother Earth to contend with - particularly as they'll break down back into the oil from whence they came.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 4th June 2014, 6:25 PM BSTBut what if you just want to buy a bottle of wine on the way home. It's alright for chicks, they usually go everywhere with a bag, what's one more to them? But for free wheeling, no ties, adventurous spirits like myself, poncing around with a giant girl bag is a no-no.
Just put it in your shopping cart, with your 10 bin bags, 2 dead cats and the 300 cans you were going to recycle.
Quote: sootyj @ 4th June 2014, 6:28 PM BSTJust put it in your shopping cart, with your 10 bin bags, 2 dead cats and the 300 cans you were going to recycle.
Or drink it in Tescos?
I have a woven cotton shopping bag in green from Bakers & Larners of Holt. I think it makes a nice statement when I venture out for some fresh crusty rolls and celery salt.
I'm not going back there since those fascists told me I could put some pants on, or not drink the wine, but not both.
Quote: Marc P @ 4th June 2014, 6:33 PM BSTI have a woven cotton shopping bag in green from Bakers & Larners of Holt.
Does it go with your vagina dress? 
Quote: sootyj @ 4th June 2014, 6:33 PM BSTI'm not going back there since those fascists told me I could put some pants on
Every little helps.
Not in this shade of green!
Quote: Marc P @ 4th June 2014, 6:36 PM BSTNot in this shade of green!
