Supermarket Plastic bags

[JimK]

/Since this idea was announced I have saved all my bags, and I have economised on my re-use of them. I now have approx 1 trillion. I use them for: Bagging used incontinence products Bagging soiled underwear on its way to the wash or the bin Bagging mass-produced meals for freezing Collecting clothes from hospital patient for washing at home, and the return trip Making up bags of chicken food Storing confidential paperwork until I have a bonfire Collecting scraps of wire etc in the workshop for eventual recycling by Mr Scrapman Sandwiches

Bill /q

Give em a periodic rinse won't you?

Jim K

[Brian Gaff]

No cos most supermarket bags are crap in any case.

Ireland have been doing this for some time I believe and I was told that what has happened is the bags are not no longer bio degradable. Brian

[Tim Streater]

What's this / /q nonsense? Can't you quote properly?

[Adam Funk]

It only costs £1 to buy a trolley to take home. ;-)

[Adam Funk]

[Judith]

Perhaps they want you to pay for everything.

(You could use the self-service tills and scanners - you can then not scan one in five items - it saves a fortune ;-)

[Judith]

One of my local Tescos (Lincoln) has introduced conveyors and scanners where you put the item on the belt - and they are all scanned automatically - not picked up by operator. They then go in to a specific collection area - and whilst you are loading your bags from that one - the next customer's are going in to a different collection area. Wicked.)

[Judith]

I suppose in your case - for the small penis.

[Bob Eager]

Even less for a lump of plastic rod and a hacksaw...

[Adrian]

As might anybody with working tastebuds.

The "excessive plastic packaging" is probably the tastiest, as well as the most nutritious, part.

[whisky-dave]

I don;t have a car so I'm saying the planet that way :-)

If my bags were strong enough I:d reuse them again and agin, but I';m lucky if tehy make to 3 mile journey home without splitting. If they do make it home in one piece I reuse them.

For me it's those belts that making loading bags slow.

[Clive George]

I was reminded that icky meat scraps go on the fire (ok, in the stove), which would be a problem otherwise. Fat burns very nicely :-)

[Bill Wright]

No I'm grumpy because I'm surrounded by uppity women who think they're as good as men.

Bill

[whisky-dave]

I know the feeling and they(SOME) get equal pay for less work.

[harryagain]

Well, that would make anyone grumpy. They only want the cushy jobs too. When did you last see a woman mixing cement/emptying dustbins?

[ARW]

So is every bloke in the UK.

[tim.....]

Because some people are morons

when I first moved into a shared house, one of my sharers went to the supermarket.

After he had unpacked the shopping the kitchen bin was full to the brim of the bags he had carried the stuff in. No thought at all that they might be reusable in some way or other

tim

[tim.....]

whey do you have cloth bags that you never use?

Anyhow there's a limit to the number of cloth bags that one can take to the supermarket. And I usually avoid putting fish/meat in those plastic trays that don't quite seal all the juices inside, in mine

tim

[tim.....]

Hm,

I can beat your green boast

I walk to the supermarket thus avowing polluting the atmosphere on the way

tim

[Tim Streater]

You're breathing out aren't you? Thus adding to the CO2 burden.