This needs clarity
Bag for life scheme
South Tyneside shoppers will be given the chance to ditch plastic carriers and bag themselves a more environmentally friendly ‘bag for life’ next week.
Wonderful scheme, I’m all for us shoppers re-using a bag for life, we did it years ago and I’m sure we can do it again now. The use of supermarket carrier bags is extremely wasteful and damages our environment. However, I’d like to know if the scheme is being used to distribute the supermarket’s branded bags or whether South Tyneside Council has spent money to produce it’s own bags, the article isn’t clear on this. If the supermarkets have been encouraged to give away their own bags than I assume there will be a small cost to them,and I hope that the council tax payer is not reimbursing that cost. We could use some clarification here.
With the government hinting that it may legislate sometime in the future over plastic carrier bags and South Shields shoppers already becoming more aware of the availability of bags for life at the checkouts, I wonder if our ‘re-education’ is being achieved with our own money?
I note that Tesco who are to bring value to Hebburn town centre are only prepared to help out the first 400 customers- more reasons to shop at Jarrow?
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You’re right to be cynical about who’s footing the bill for this. Why is it that it’s always down to the consumer and not supermarkets or companies that over-package their goods to do something?
katesaltfleet
May 17, 2008 at 9:49 am