Thread: Only in Valencia to start with !

The Mercadona chain will be offering re-useable bags for sale, from Monday but will not start charging for its disposable carrier-bags until July.

A bag which can be re-used 10 times costs 10 cents, and a raffia basket lasting for 50 trip will be retailed at 60 cents.

But it will be another two months before the store starts to apply charges for regular carrier-bags.

Consum, the cooperative also based in the Comunidad Valenciana, says it will start charging for carrier-bags in all its supermarkets from June 6.

A smaller version than the usual bag will cost one cent, with a slightly larger one at three cents and a raffia bag at 60 cents.

Mercadona, which will initially only launch its reusable bags in the Valencia region but will later roll it out to stores in Murcia, Andalucía, Catalunya, Castilla-La Mancha, and Cantabria, will charge two cents for its mainstream bags.

The charges are to encourage sensible use of disposable carrier-bags and to comply with the National Integrated Residual Waste Plan (PNIR), part of the ministry of the environment, which intends to ban supermarkets from giving out carrier-bags free and has ordered the sector to reduce its bag consumption by 50 per cent.



Getting greener :-)

Time to use our own bags me thinks ;-)

Originally Posted by Val

The charges are to encourage sensible use of disposable carrier-bags and to comply with the National Integrated Residual Waste Plan (PNIR), part of the ministry of the environment, which intends to ban supermarkets from giving out carrier-bags free and has ordered the sector to reduce its bag consumption by 50 per cent.

Is it really greener?

Or is it a hijacking of the green movement in order to tax it?

A real green approach would be to BAN plastic bags and then enforce an alternative...

Taxing won't solve the plastic ocean:



Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N.[1] The patch extends over an indeterminate area, with estimates ranging very widely depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area. Although many media and advocacy reports have suggested the patch extends over an area larger than the continental U.S, recent research sponsored by the National Science Foundation suggests the affected area may be twice the size of Texas

Originally Posted by Val

The Mercadona chain will be offering re-useable bags for sale, from Monday but will not start charging for its disposable carrier-bags until July.
A bag which can be re-used 10 times costs 10 cents, and a raffia basket lasting for 50 trip will be retailed at 60 cents.
But it will be another two months before the store starts to apply charges for regular carrier-bags.
Mercadona, which will initially only launch its reusable bags in the Valencia region Getting greener :-)

Nearly right Val..The Mercadona stores here have stopped giving Plastic bags since 9th May....They are selling small bio-degradable bags or raffia bags..
They won't use any more plastic bags, and don't give any free bags.
I have put some cardboard boxes in my boot, and today, I just put everything in the trolley and unloaded it into the boxes in the carpark.. Easy.
CD

OMG that is awful ! I had not seen anything as bad as that.

I would think it is not the right way at all but so many people in government and other places do not understand not want to understand the whole global warming issues. I do not know enough about it but I think there are targets set by the EC for the reduction of use plastic and the governments see this as a start and of course a way to get more funds.
I am sure there was a Directive on it.