Comments on: Stop using plastic bags for vegetables!

By: Mrs Green

Mrs Green — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:16:36 +0000

@Diane: Hi Diane, great mission! It’s good Tesco are making it more attractive for people to reuse bags by offering loyalty points. Sainsburys do this too. Love the story about your Grandma

@russell: Hi Russell, lovely to see you again I agree with you; we favour profit over anything else. I think Waitrose come close too, but like you say, they are priced out of the market for the average person

@Michelle: Good question about the grape bags, Michelle. I guess I might reuse them for buying cherry tomatoes or other small fruits and vegetables. Apart from that I’m not sure! I try to avoid plastic too.

@Eco-Vegan Gal: I’m glad you enjoyed the article. Keep up the great work on your own site; I love what you are doing over there

By: Eco-Vegan Gal

Eco-Vegan Gal — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:06:15 +0000

Thank you for writing about this - it is so important that we bring our own bags when buying produce and items in bulk! I didn’t know about Onya Weight though - checking them out right now! I also like the “totally naked” idea - I usually do this too.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:11:11 +0000

I popped over here from Small Footprints to see what you had to say in your entry about this, & you’ve given me some great ideas. I’m going to look in the nearest city for green options for produce because I rarely use produce bags anymore, but sometimes I just have too much produce to just carry around or I want to keep them separate from other items in the basket.

I have a question about grapes that’re already pre-packaged in bags - it’d be silly, to me, to just leave the bags there, but often I find a package with just the right amount of grapes for me (I eat a lot of them when I buy them). I don’t like the idea of using those bags since they’re plastic, but any ideas about reusing grape bags? Anyone come up with ideas for reusing them? I’m going to try & think about some.

By: russell

russell — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:40 +0000

Great to see the Onya range expanding with some more great products. I tend to go naked in the supermarket now! I do get some funny looks at the checkout but why do I need a bag for them to weight a couple of carrots?! We have become a society obsessed with convenience for the sake of convenience. When it comes to the supermarket it makes me sad that I believe it is fuelled by wanting more profit. Profit over responsibility. I dream of a nationwide supermarket brand that is ethical and authentic. I think Waitrose is the closest, but unfortunately they are aiming at the more expensive end of the market pricing a lot of people out being able to shop there.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:32:30 +0000

I remember my grandmother treasuring the small plastic bags she got from the supermarket. They’ll all be reused many times - and she’d wash them out and dry them off ensuring they were good to go. They were invaluable for us fetching fruit and veg from her garden to our home.
I avoid taking them were possible - and I do keep them to use again and again.
I’ve avoided taking carrier bags too - and at Tesco you are rewarded by green club card points for doing this too.
My mission is to convince everyone to carry reusable bags and to ditch the plastic carriers.