Ethos Public Relations Manchester

Make it Paper! Time to start a Campaign...?

by Shaun

There have been many posts and much discussion about the use of plastic bags in shops in the past and almost all of it seems to focus on reducing the number of bags used - rightly. The environmental consensus seems to be that shops should shop giving them out. But yesterday I heard an alternative view.

I turned down a free carrier bag in a shop yesterday and the shop assistant said she always did the same if the bag were not paper. She said that her shop had recently changed from using paper bags to plastic ones.

From now on I am always going to ask shops if they have paper bags (in non-food stores) because if I chose to take one, I can at least recycle it after I have finished with it.

Why don't we all do the same and get more stores to use paper?

Posted at 9:25am on 2^nd May 2008