no to plastic bags...

Just saw an article on the news tonight about foodtown and plastic bags...they have decided that if you buy under three products then they wont give you a bag..YAY!

foodtown were one of the main culprits tho i think and even tho they sell enviro bags they still packed your purchases into too many plastic bags.

i have heaps of enviro bags i use now and never get plastic bags at the dairy now either...

I think we should all make an effort to say no to plastic bags... it certainly makes for less mess around my house, let alone the landfill.

Edited by gandt

Countdown have signs that ask people to request no bag for less than 3 items. I never buy less than three tho...

I never buy less than 3 items if I walk into a supermarket

New world annoys me when we go there because of the amount of bags they pack stuff in. Some bags will only have one or two items and we end up with twice as many bags as what was actually needed.

I think it is a good idea, but what I find is like yeaterday I went in and got 3 2.5 bottle of coke and a big packet of Huggies wipes and the chicky but the 3 bottles in one bag. I picked it up and it broke. I am finding they are over packing the very thin bags. I'm all for the reuse, recycle and (I can't remember the other one), I use the plastic bags to put our recycling out but if it breaks on me how can I reuse it? I have to bin it. I have just started buying the reusable bags (you can fit so much in them) but yesterday Countdown didn't have any (all sold out which in a way is kinda cool).

I am a shocker..... have the green reuseable ones which are fab!!! but forget to take them...

We also re-use all of our plastic bags as our kitchen rubbish bags because we are too cheap to buy proper bin liners.

I get my groceries delievered and the amount of bags they use is SHOCKING!!!!

I've emailed them suggesting using the re-usable bags, and each time you have a delivery you could just return last weeks bags etc but didnt' get much of a response.

We do re-use our bags to pick up doggi doos, but I still would like less.

I've only got one reusable bag at the moment... we use it when we're only getting a few things from the supermarket here. When we do our monthly shop we usually go to Pac N Save, so we've got boxes to pack our groceries into in the car... we reuse old shopping bags for any left over stuff.

I've given a whole heap of plastic bags to the local kindy when they wanted some, and then more to the high school so we've got very few left here.

I got a re-usable bag from New World it folds up small, i also got a plastic box from Pak n Save, Shop in Go which fits all our weekly groceries, and its already packed by the time i get to the checkout. I use their free green one for fruit and vege and thats all we use.

I reuse plastic bags for rubbish bags, but usually end up with more bags than rubbish.