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They started as £0.05 here in the UK. Now a few years later it is £1 for a plastic bag from Waitrose. Outrageous. Even worse are the places that offer only p
by mattlondon 3y ago
They started as £0.05 here in the UK. Now a few years later it is £1 for a plastic bag from Waitrose. Outrageous.
Even worse are the places that offer only paper bags, but charge you for them because they can now. 30p for a paper bag from Boots makes no sense when the whole point of the bag levy was to stop people using plastic ones.
- snet0 3y agoI think the thought is that you should buy less bags. I'm seeing you in other comments, lamenting the fact that you routinely go shopping without any bags. I'll admit that there could be perfectly reasonable situations that are negatively impacted by the bag levy, however I think the entire purpose of this levy is to discourage you from buying bags. You should have a few, and re-use them when you go shopping. Eventually you'll replace them, but it'll be after a while and it'll be at negligible cost. If you're buying so many bags that a £1 cost is "outrageous" to you, you are the problem.
- mattlondon 3y agoI do reuse them, and I have a load of "proper" bags in the boot of the car. But I can't carry bags around with me on the random off chance that I will go to the shops that morning or afternoon or whatever. Just let me buy paper ones for the actual cost, and not some price gauging plastic bag.
- willsmith72 3y agowhy shouldn't there be a cost? it's the best way to shape behaviour.