Don't Trow Your Shopping Bag, It Is Useful!

There are changes here in our country when it comes to shopping bag. Some supermarkets implement that buyers/shoppers must bring their own bags every weekends because the mall/supermarket won't provide a single bag. This is a good way to motivate people not to throw but reuse their shopping bags.

Hello Jam, you are very right. We should not throw the plastic bags because it takes long time to be rotten. It takes as much as 300 years to damage it automatically. It blocks our drainage holes and creates water logging. It creates adverse effect over the environment. In many countries using of plastic bag is banned. This bags can be used in the recycling process. Have a nice day.

this is a good way of reducing our excesses by reusing the plastic bags. i bring my shopping bag whenever i go to the supermarket because i do not want to pay extra for a bag. by bringing my one bag everytime, i am spared to spend some money and i also spare the world of another plastic bag to be thrown and added to the wastage.

It will encourage shoppers to recycle all plastic bags. If they reused all bags it will minimize the garbage that can cause flooding in many areas specially in the cities. For example here in our country, the main cause of flooding are the garbage. Which people living within the city throw their garbage anywhere in their areas.

I can't remember that time anymore we could get a shopping bag for free. In many countries I have been/lived it's normal to pay for a shopping bag or take your own with you. If I have one I always take it with me or use it again.. if it's (partly) broke I use it as a garbish bag.

Back when I was small, I remember that we never throw out the plastic bags from groceries. Mom would fold them neatly and use them to line up our trash bins, or use it whenever she goes to the wet market. Now that our town have an ordinance banning all plastics, we have those cloth-like shopping bags and we always use these and carry them back whenever we go grocery shopping. These can be bought from the groceries at 20 pesos minimum, depending on the size.

Only one store around here makes you pay for bags, but you are welcome to bring your own from home. I always forget though, but they do leave items in boxes so if box empties out you are allowed to use it to bring your stuff home in so I usually keep my eye out for nice boxes. I use the plastic grocery bags I get from other stores to pack my husbands lunch in every day. I use the bigger ones as garbage bags for my kitchen garbage, and I use some of the smaller ones for my bathroom and bedroom garbages.

If it is make of non biodegradable material, then it is reuseable for a long time, and most of them can be kept for other uses or reuse as shopping bags again in the future. Only those biodegradable type should be thrown away if you wish, they will not harm the environment chemically speaking after they are in the landfill.

Hi Jamz, same like your area nowadays i will need to pay for using the plastic bags in my area here. So, i usually would bring along my eco-friendly shopping bags with me, whenever i go shopping in the supermarkets. But, when i go buying fruits and veggies from the wet market, i don't bring any bag with me. Because they always provide free plastic bags to put my fruits and veggies. After i unpacked my veggies and fruits into the refrigerator, i would use those plastic bags for throwing away my rubbish. At least, i don't waste them. I recycle them every time for throwing away my rubbish.

In kerala the price of the plastic bags has just raised now. Due to this simple reason many of them started to carry bags with them, before this people including me do not carry it with me. I just used to get it free from the shops. I think this will help our environment a lot.

Hi jamz! In our country, the use of plastic is being banned especially in our province. So we really have to bring our shopping bags whenever we go to the mall. This is one of the programs of the government to address the present problem of the country with regards to environment.

Hi friend, you are right, we are using the shopping bags to collect the garbage, in some big shopping malls, they are collecting money for the bags, if we keep a bag with us while shopping, we can reduce the unwanted bag expenses, you are right, we never through the shopping bags, it is really useful

The shopping bags can be useful in other stuff. You need to keep it for future usage. It is also an environmental-friendly thing to do.

We don't throw shopping bags, we keep it for garbage too or for other usage. Shopping bags are still free here where I live and I actually like having them. After putting our shopped goods in its storage. I always fold the bags and put it where I keep it. Shopping bags are useful if we only know how to use them. :))

Any form of recycling and reusing is always a good thing, especially when we are dealing with non biodegradable items like plastic. Unfortunately it is not always so easy to comply with what we know to be the right thing. A few years ago the major supermarkets in the UK stopped giving away cheap carrier bags and offered good quality ones for sale to be used over and over again. I bought several of these, but always ended up returning to the supermarket without one, which made the whole process quite impractical for me. I realise that it is my responsibility to conform in such cases, but I did not plan supermarket visits and never did manage to remember. I was obviously not the only person to do this because the practise was soon abandoned and now cheap carrier bags are given away as before. In many ways this is a pity, but I cannot criticise anyone for failing to reuse their bags because I was as guilty as anyone else.

In my country, it just started recently to require to pay for the shopping bag in recent two years, but only on Saturdays. I suppose this rule is going to apply for all days, but slowly. I always collect and keep the plastic bags, and use them as rubbish bags, or to pack something. I don't just simply throw them away, as I think it's too wasteful if we simply throw something that can be recycled away. It'll be harmful to the environment.

I reuse my shopping bags when they give them to us from the grocery market.. I find them useful around the house..put kids toys in the storage, use them as lining for the garbage, etc. Another tip would be to remember to bring them again for reuse next time we go to the market again..