*International Plastic Bag Free Day* tomorrow July 3rd

It must be years since I used a plastic bag. 🤔

Same here. I can’t remember the last time I used one

I use them all the time, the ones I have kept for years and reuse.

My supermarket bags are well used, they're always in the car. Yes like others I can't remember the last time I bought a plastic bag.

I wish that they would just stop selling them, full stop. 😡

The fresh fish from the fish stall in the market was in two small plastic bags. I cannot think of a way round that. I wouldn't have wanted to put my two fillets of smoked haddock directly into a cloth bag to carry it home.

Thats easy don’t eat fish 🤣🤣🤣

Lidl provide paper carriers now, but no good if you do a big shop, because they’re only lidl.

Scooping up dog detritus in a paper bag 🤮
Oh I know! Don't have a dog!

Putting food waste, even if you have very little, in a plastic bin liner . . .

OK, I know, don’t eat food.

Compostable plastic free food bags are available. There may also be environmentally friendly poo bags. Dog owners will know.

Parsley3

Compostable plastic free food bags are available. There may also be environmentally friendly poo bags. Dog owners will know.

There are. Most poo bags say biodegradable but judging by the ones that are left on the ground or hung on trees and are still there weeks, even months later biodegradable doesn’t have much meaning.

I use mainly cloth tote bags or Hessian shoppers for my " ordinary " shopping.

My supermarket items ( big shop, once a week ), goes in 2 of those insulated picnic baskets with handles. Cost about £6 from B & M/Home Bargains. These sit nicely in the supermarket trolley. I use the scanning handset as I go round and pack directly into them. A few people have stopped me to say what a good idea. Easy to lift in and out of the car boot and into the house.

The only plastic bags that come into the house now are MrLP's Iceland delivery ( once a month ), and the thin blue ones from the plant stall at the local market. I try to remember to take these back with me to re-use.

Any random bags that come into the house (ie with gifts or posted items ) are re-used as collecting bags for the charity shop. I always have one on the go and when it's full, off it goes!

Having said all that, I've just realised that I do buy plastic bin liners, as I don't like messy things like food waste going straight in my bin. Our area is supposed to be getting a food waste recycling bin sometime this year. The bag in my inside recycling bin gets re-used until it tears.

Gone are the days when I used to have a huge collection of plastic bags that might just come in handy!

Take care all xx

We also carry our own bags, hessian or cotton mainly, although the insulated bags will contain some plastic - but they have also been in use for nearly 10 years.

We have a few plastic bags remaining around the house, mainly because we never use them.

Like others on here, we haven't used plastic bags for years. Apart from anything else, the large, sturdy, reusable ones are so much better and hold a lot more.

Any plastic bags such as those from the takeaway, and other soft plastic packaging, go in a large cage in our Tesco where they get collected for recycling.

I'm guilty of buying a bag for life today. Took two foldable fabric bags in my handbag. Used them both. Went to go into a supermarket and realised I hadn't replaced anything in the car when it came back from the car repairers yesterday so no spare bag in glove compartment. The new bag for life now has a new home in there.

I and many other old people take their bags with them, its the young who buy plastic bags , what's another 30p on their £3 sandwich and coke bill, so much for their environmental credentials

M0nica

The fresh fish from the fish stall in the market was in two small plastic bags. I cannot think of a way round that. I wouldn't have wanted to put my two fillets of smoked haddock directly into a cloth bag to carry it home.

We used to buy fish that was wrapped in a piece of greaseproof paper that was then wrapped in newspaper.

I don't remember the bags or baskets we carried it home in stinking of fish and if they did, they could be washed.

Nothing needs to be wrapped in plastic. We could take a bowl or dish with us to the shops to carry foodstuffs home in.

AuntieE

M0nica

The fresh fish from the fish stall in the market was in two small plastic bags. I cannot think of a way round that. I wouldn't have wanted to put my two fillets of smoked haddock directly into a cloth bag to carry it home.

We used to buy fish that was wrapped in a piece of greaseproof paper that was then wrapped in newspaper.

I don't remember the bags or baskets we carried it home in stinking of fish and if they did, they could be washed.

Nothing needs to be wrapped in plastic. We could take a bowl or dish with us to the shops to carry foodstuffs home in.

Of course nothing needs to be wrapped in plastic, but I am entirely in the hands of the fish monger in how he wraps chooses to wrap his fish.

I walk around town doing my shopping and buy fish in the market. Taking a bowl or dish with me would be totally impractical, whether carrying it home in my shopping basket or trolley.

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I don't remember the bags or baskets we carried it home in stinking of fish and if they did, they could be washed.

Of course they can be washed, but that uses precious water with potentially toxic detergent and fuel . . .

I take a 'tupperware' type box to the butcher for him to put meat in. I suppose you could do the same for fish

When little my brother & I had, as part of our jobs for pocket money, to help with the shopping on a Saturday morning. One of the shops we went to was a Fish shop. We would give the man behind the counter a note from Mum telling him what we needed that week. He would wrap in a couple of plain paper sheets then in newspaper. Bags that we put smelly or leaky items in were always ones that could be washed. Much better than plastic. If plastic disappeared overnight I would not miss it or the damage it does to the environment!

The use of plastic bags has fallen substantially since the introduction of charging for them was implemented.

Most of us probably reuse them over and over again.
I know I do.

We will never be completely rid of them. Obviously!.

I love hessian bags and have quite a collection of them. Many of them are artistically beautiful.