[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's more about the way it scales, though. If you're not spending much then it's going to cost you 5p... If it's costing more than say 30p (six bags) then you must have spent at LEAST £30, which then makes the 30p negligible.

Anyway, it's been in practice up here for ages, and genuinely, I'd day less than 10% of people actually carry bags around with them. Most people just pay the extra. Although I guess 10% is better than nothing (if you care about the ducks and stuff).

I would be interested to know EXACTLY where that money goes, though. As far as I know the supermarkets don't get to keep it, but they ARE allowed to make profits on their "bags for life" (which, by the way, are crap and fall apart after a couple of uses).

..it's not all about the fluffy ducks.....us humans quite like this earth as well and it lasting longer for our children and children's children etc is all a good thing...waddle they do without it....

..yeah, the charges were something I was worried about because them going to the supermarkets themselves would be all kinds of wrong considering all of the non environmentally packaged stuff they sell and how ironic that would be but it's all going to charity...(I think..)..the charities will be different with each one because the one I shop at is all local charities atm and chosen by the shoppers and will change regularly...they've already been doing that at Waitrose for quite some time with the green tokens at the checkouts, I don't know if you've eve r seen that...but you put your token in the charity you want to support and then funds are donated ...