Green backlash?

[jackie j]

I have a green caddy supplied by the council for food waste but I only use this for cooked food everything else goes in a large square tub with a snap on lid and a handle cost me a couple of pound or less.

[Winged one]

We have been buying black sacks for the kitchen bin for a long time, as we have a large kitchen bin (but really, we could do with a smaller one at this stage). And long before the bag tax came in.

We were also using the reusable bags long before the tax came in - unfortunately, some shops then changed their policy (I think they had no real way to avoid it) from a once off payment and replacing the bag if ever necessary for free, to payment for each bag whenever it was needed.

Our favourite supermarket also has paper bags for tomatoes and mushrooms, and a larger one for spuds. So we use those, and tend to not use bags for other fruit/veg unless really necessary (we can weigh ourselves still in this one, and we also do the self scan thingy so pack the fruit/veg straight into our reusable bags, so no rolling around for cashier). If I am in my other almost favourite supermarket, I tend to bag a little more (the cashier has to weigh everything), but I still often leave most non-messy things loose, and they only have placcy bags for everything.

But there are lots of folks around who look at you strangely for doing things in a non-comformative manner. I think I am acknowledged as the green nut in our office, but being mainly civil servants of an older vintage (I am the baby of the group), they are more tolerant as most of them remember growing their own at home during the 80's, and have parents etc who grew lots around the wartime and "emergency" afterwards.

[yoanbob]

I can believe the green backlash at the market eventhough its crazy, I get very funny looks when I'm forced to go to the supermarket, I leave all unessasary packaging at the till, it takes forever and really pisses the cashiers off but who cares.