Use a bag for life
Get into the habit of taking your bag for life everywhere so it's close to hand when you need it. Cutting the number of carrier bags that you use will help reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfill.
The problem
Nobody is sure how long plastic bags take to degrade – estimates range from 100 years to a thousand!
Not only do plastic bags contribute to the growing landfill problem, they litter beaches, choke marine life, require crude oil for their manufacture and cost energy to transport.
What you can do
Refuse to use plastic bags and instead carry your shopping in a reusable Bag for Life, made from durable materials. It should last you lots of shopping trips - and when it begins to wear out, the retailer should replace it free of charge.
If everyone in the UK stopped using plastic bags and switched to a reusable bag, each year we'd save enough plastic to tie around the earth 103 times.
It can take a while to remember to carry a Bag for Life with you. But once the habit is established you'll find yourself refusing hundreds of free plastic bags a year, benefiting the environment every time.
Pledge to remember your Bag for Life today!
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