406
Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
406 points (98.3% liked)
United Kingdom
4076 readers
48 users here now
General community for news/discussion in the UK.
Less serious posts should go in [email protected] or [email protected]
More serious politics should go in [email protected].
Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Self serving checkouts ask you how many bags you want and charge for them in the UK. I have seen a growth in adults using backpacks, it wasn't the norm before the bag charge.
Yeah I use my backpack, much better for carrying heavy groceries
Doesn't everyone else just click no bags? Free bags baby.
Cameras, I mean you could pretend to scan stuff and walk out if you wanted.
@Wooly @Magnus I click no bags.... after I've scanned them.
What's the outcome of that?
@Wooly I pay for the bags, but only once.
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Either you scan them, or tap however many bags at the end. Not both.
Btw you don't need to @ me when replying, this is double bag scanning but for Lemmy.
Yes, that was kind of the point.
(The @ ing is because I'm replying from Mastodon, it does that by default)
Oh fair, first mastadon person I've met.
Even the federators get confused by federation.
If you have like, more than a few things and click no bags they often freeze and signal an employee to override. Annoying when you brought a bag