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Originally Posted by poohbear  Can somebody please tell me why our wonderful government doesn't ban the great God Tescos and the rest of the high street/market destroyers from handing out plastic bags. (I know some are trying to cut the numbers down)
Why they can't be made to swap over to recycled paper bags that will quickly rot if dumped, I don't know.Or maybe too many politicians have fingers in the supermarkets pie. |
Well to me the obvious solution is to charge quite a bit for the plastic bags.
What happens in this society is often what costs the least. If it is significantly cheaper to bring your own shopping bag to the supermarket, then for the majority that will eventually happen. The richer, who would rather spend the money on the bags and the convenience, could be, in paying over the odds for the bags, subsidising, to their delight, some scheme that will benefit all. Seems like a win/win/win situation to me.
But if you listen to the people that run the Supermarkets, they say "our customers demand that we provide free carrier bags, and we are in business to supply what the customer wants". Kind of a cop out really IMHO. What they really mean is that if they start charging for bags, someone else wont, and all their customers will go there instead.
The customers won't immediately see that if they bring their own bags it won't cost them anything, instead they see the supermarket charging exhorbitant prices for the bags instead. To change this mindset will take time.
The funny thing is, this is what people used to do, our mindsets have changed to this. Everyone would go shopping with their shopping bags or trolleys on wheels. Probably because there either were no plastic carrier bags or they were rubbish and would break on the way home, can't remember now!