Two eco-surprises at the shops today

Well, it's not what I stuff my turkey with OP, but I could give it a try!

Everything we are doing here pales into significance if you go shopping in Colorado where every purchase, no matter how small, comes in a plastic carrier bag

so many funny posts here, funny ha! ha! I mean

huh to supermarkets ditching free plastic bags,,, what about the plastic they use for veggies, meat etc.... duh!!

and yes, little bits,, it`s a start,, but a long, long, way to go yet..
lets keep on keeping on

lol I too thought sage and onion stuffing at the beginning

I’ve dismantled polyester pillows for their stuffing - recycling if nothing else!

Caro57 I do that too, great for stuffing knitted toys! I also dismantle anything useful from an item before I recycle in case I should need anything. Nice buttons on a garment for instance that could be reused.

I agree with Humbertbear.
We bought about 20 items recently in a US supermarket and the cashier packed them in at least 15 plastic carrier bags. My US host unpacked and threw the bags into the general rubbish. I told her I would've used them as bin liners and she opened a large drawer full of bought liners of all sizes.
The UK efforts need to be matched by the rest of the world.

Lack of bags is a good thing as not all people dispose of them responsibly which I frequently find when taking walks on a local beach.I prefer to large shop rather than bits here and there so find cardboard boxes shops leave out for us are ideal to be put in a trolley ready to take out to the car park. These boxes last a long time and eco friendly.

Some of the worst offenders are the large bakeries. I have started buying Warburtons white sliced bread because it is the only one that does not come in a plastic bag. I much prefer brown bread, but need ready sliced loaves because I cannot slice a loaf to save my life. I have tried going to the bakery section and getting them to slice it for me but it doesn't last as long and even then they put it in a plastic bag! Very frustrating

pinkquartz Why not get several of those fabric bags that fold up into their own teeny bags? They sell masses of them on a rack at our local garden centre and many other places too. I always have one in my handbag. If you want to send others out shopping, just hand them one of those. None of us really need any plastic ones now. Also, remember string bags? They've made a come-back too. Not expensive and thoroughly re-usable.

I love the paper bags with little handles that Fat Face offer you when you buy from them! They are free and I always keep them and try to re-use. Why don’t more shops do this? Not only are the bags an advert for their shop, they are much more “eco friendly”. I am sure that when I was a child (many years ago!!) all of our food shopping used to be put into paper bags. Didn’t sugar used to be sold in thick blue paper bags?

Actually I checked the JL website and they do still have the polyester toy stuffing online.
Haven't used the wool version yet, but I'm having a mammoth sewing-up-and-stuffing session today, so will see how it compares.

I bought a couple of the Sainsburys reuseable bags, small drawstring mesh bags for fruit and veg. Haven't actually used them yet because I just put loose veg into my main shopping bag.
You could make your own from a pair of charity shop net curtains, you'd get quite a few bags from one pair.
I too find the old carrier bags useful for all sorts of things, but am running out.
Thinking cap on.

Just make sure you weigh your veg loose first. Even the smallest bag adds to what you’re paying for. To be fair Sainsbury's now have a sign that says weigh them loose before bagging. I remember lots of publicity about saving the rainforests by not using paper . . .

I have been getting my groceries delivered by Sainsburys for some time now. However, I shall now have to stop as their new policy of 'no bags', will make it too inconvenient. The drivers are only given a short time for each delivery and they will now be expected to empty the boxes as well as deliver them. It will be too much hassle. I suggested that each customer should 'rent' a box which would then be returned at each delivery, which the driver I spoke to said was a good idea, but they are not acting on it.

So did I BlueBelle

I buy or sew cloth bags, or buy one of the good quality reusable carrier bags that Aldi, Lidl etc. sell. If I am on my cargo bike I always have two giant shoppers and a folding basket with me, if I walk I take a rucksack and a cloth carrier bag with me.

Remember what our mothers did when we were children?

If you can't carry things, a good shopping bag on wheels is the answer.

An Eco shop has just opened in our street, DGs and I had a wander round on Saturday. I was amazed at all the plastic, all the toiletries, cleaning stuff and quite a lot of items such as Honey and spreads all in plastic containers. The f ruit and veg was dodgy to say the least, wrinkled peppers and very limp lettuces.
The prices made my eyes water, we have a corner shop opposite and they are much more Eco friendly and a lot cheaper. From 1933 and still in the same family, guess where I will be shopping?

I bought sainsburys veg bag as I had lots of small Brussels sprout sand didn,t like the idea of having to catch all to put in my shopping bag!

Most things can just be put into your trolley loose then straight into your shopping bag.

Gilly1952

Yes, I remember the thick blue bags sugar came in. My dad was a smallholder, Mum sold eggs at the door using the bags to put them in.
Our parents generation really did make do and mend. I was brought up to save all paper bags, buttons were cut off old clothes, string was saved, veg peelings etc was fed to the chickens and pigs, glass bottles were refundable, and so on.
Everyone had proper shopping baskets, and I suppose many people shopped on a daily basis, so you didn’t need lots of bags.

Ladymuck too inconvenient? Duh!

I am very green and always have been because I am frugal and don't like waste. I have always looked out for the planet.

However, all this greenwash, hypocrisy, ill informed greeniac nonsense and sanctimony gives me the pip. I am completely fed up with people who fly long haul for holidays lecturing me about things I am not even doing!

I've found that market prices aren't always cheaper than those at the supermarket.

I am all for doing away with single use plastic bags, paper ones are so much better, but if people dont have anything and just put things on the conveyor belt and into their trolley is there going to be a mess left on the belt, soil, leaves etc? No doubt it will be sorted soon when people remember to have bags with them.
I wish they would do away with putting cucumber in plastic,I take it off as soon as I get home.

I saw Boots had brown paper bags the other day.