Say no to supermarket plastic bags
I feel so strongly about this that whenever I’m offered one from now on I have decided to say that I don’t want it. At firstthis might be annoying but I will soon learn to bring a bag with me to the shop.
According to Waste Watch, every year 17.5bn plastic bags are given away by supermarkets. That’s equivalent to more than 290 bags for every person in the UK.
Some supermarkets have started to charge for a bag or reward people who re use bags. But what we really need is a sea change so that bags are not given out at all.
This week San Francisco has made plastic bags illegal. In Ireland the government has taxed plastic bags, but sadly nothing in the UK.
If you agree with me and would like to see plastic bags disappear from our lives, pick your shop from the list below, phone them and tell them you don’t want plastic bags and when you are in their shop just refuse to have one given to you.
UK Supermarket Share – the 10 biggest.
Tesco (31.3% share) phone 0800 505555
Asda (16.9% share) phone 0845 300 1111
Sainsbury’s (16.5% share) phone 0800 636262
Morrisons (11.1% share) phone 0845 611 6111
Co-op (4.7% share) phone 0800 0686 727
customer.relations@co-op.co.uk
Waitrose (4.0% share) phone 0800 188 884
customer_service@waitrose.co.uk
Somerfield (3.6% share) phone 0117 935 9359
Aldi (2.4% share) phone 01245 215000
Lidl (2.1% share) phone 0870 444 1234
Iceland (1.8% share) phone 01244 842842
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