Smart Shopping

Say NO to single use plastic carrier bags at the supermarket till – instead use reusable ‘bags for life’ next time you visit the supermarket to carry your shopping home.

Store your reusable bags convenient, like in your car, so you don’t forget them the next time you go shopping.

Did you know?

• When carrier bags end up in landfill they can take around 500 years to decompose, and we use 500 million of these each week!
• A staggering 10 billion carrier bags are produced each year;
• If we laid them, end-to-end, they would stretch to the moon and back five times;
• 80% of UK shoppers put everything into free carrier bags at the supermarket;
• In the UK each year 100,000 tonnes of plastic bags are thrown away – that’s the same weight as 70,000 cars (Source: Recycle now)

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