Paying for carrier bags.

Me too gillybob! Will they take our intentions into account so we don't have to pay up?!

I now leave one of those bright nylon bags by the front door as a reminder to self.It hasn't worked so far.

Does it include clothing? Say, in Marks and Sparks? I got charged 5p for a bag for a t-shirt for GS in Peacocks on the Welsh border last week. (I was grumpy about it!)

Leave it rolled up in your handbag rq. (right pain having to roll it up again when you get home though. #lazycow)

honestly, 5 p too much- and too complicated, etc. Really? How difficult is is to take your own bags with you. It takes very little time to get used to it- and having to pay when you do forget soons concentrates the mind.
Can't believe all the fuss!

Sorry. The other rose.

I have been buying bags for life since Marks and Spencer introduced charging for bags, not that I shop there all the time! I now never go out without a couple of bags, I am shocked at how many free bags some people use when doing a big shop. I often use Sainsburys and it really stands out there, maybe because their bags are orange. Having to pay for them will probably annoy some initially, but having seen how these bags affect marine life, I think introducing a charge is justified.

Well don't aim that at me missis. I've been doing it for years!

Do you really believe the stores pay 5p each for them? Sounds a bit "plucked out of thin air" to me.

That was to gj

For a big shop you would have to use the "Bags for life". That's ok. I presume the shops will still be allowed to replace those bags for free once they wear out.

Civilisation as we know it won't grind to a halt because you have to remember to take a bag with you or pay 5p for one. Maybe if you had been storing all the free ones you got since it was known that this would happen, you could have staved off the vast financial impact of that 5p for another year or so.

Bin liner sales will shoot up. (And where does that the environment ) With fortnightly bin emptying you can hardly put the rubbish in loose. It would soon stink. Have they thought this through at all?

Elegran

Yes very easy to get a "bag for life" replaced once a tear or hole has appeared, I've never had a request turned down - well not in that respect anyway I'm not sure about clothes though, many shops offer a nice paper type carrier bag for clothing. Marks don't, I hadn't thought that one through, I don't think I'd want to put new clothes into a screwed up old carrier bag Maybe I'll bring my nice "East" paper carriers to Marks to carry their clothes home!

I keep a set of these in my car boot. If I had my choice again, I would go for the shorter bags for shallower trolleys. The full sized ones are a bit heavy when filled, and also reach the ground when carried, as I am short.
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I think the original set is now sold by Lakeland.

Many years ago, I did refuse a FCUK bag in French connection, when they began that stupid campaign of theirs, and put their clothes in a Marks carrier.

5Live Breakfast was trying to make a big thing of the bag charge. I don't remember their doing that when the charge was introduced in the other countries of the UK!

of course they don't pay 5 p for them - just as if you buy a pair of jeans for £20 they probaly paid the supplier perhaps £7 or less. The whole point is to be a deterrent from taking 15 bags per shopping trip or more- as I regularly witness in when we visit UK supermarkets on visits, and do some shopping in town for clothes and other stuff.

Not 'aiming' at anyone jingl (and so glad you've been taking your own bags for yonks9- just saying I can't fathom all the fuss. If the Welsh, the Scotts and many other nationalities can do this, I am sure the English can manage too- as they are a clever lot ;)

If you are shopping on-line, it is worth knowing that Morrisons will refund your 5p for every bag you return to them (even someone elses).

As usual nothing is properly thought through. I use those flimsy little carrier bags to bag rubbish to put in my outside bin. They are pretty useless for bottles of wine anything heavy.

I have heard that our local authority will begin charging for emptying the green bin as from next year. Where I live most people have small gardens and many have paved them over. My neighbours on either side have paved both their front and back. Is charging for emptying a green bin (that is turned into compost and sold back anyway) not encouraging more people to "pave paradise".

Stores use their carrier bags as a form of advertising with some being instantly recognisable. As other have said, will NEXT, M&S etc.. be happy when we all carry our purchases home in shiny black bin liner? Will the shops be allowed to take on the cost? For example charging us 5p less for a pair of jeans and then charging for the carrier bag?

Ocado do the refunding I'd the bag charge too. Including anyone else's. That scheme will surely cost a fortune to carry out, and that will be reflected in prices.

It is good that there will be less plastic bags lying around which might choke animals. TBH.

The 5p charge in Wales goes to charity.

You expect them to make a profit on the actual clothing.

Actually, I have just read the shop cannot keep the money. Some goes to the Treasury(there's a surprise) and the rest must be given to charity.

It will be interesting to see what happens. (If I ever get off my fat arse sit-upon, and actually go out of this house. )