Hi from Cyprus. I am known in the local supermarket as 'the bag lady' as I always take my own bags as living half the year in Wales that is the norm. I get equally frustrated with all the plastic bags that are used, the till people just go into automatic mode and put items in bags without thinking. Lidl charge here for plastic bags and this has had some small effect. The biggest supermarket, Alpha Mega, did have hessian bags at the checkout at one time, but I haven't seen any recently. There are a small number of people, usually ex-pats. who do as I do, but getting the locals to change will be a major project. I just wish all supermarkets here would follow Lidl and charge for each bag. Perhaps educating till people and packers would help. As an aside, most of the plastic bags are produced locally so I think there would be a lot of union opposition to any change, this is a very unionised country. Even secondary school students have their own union!!!
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