I’ve had cause to drop into Waitrose Bloomsbury a couple of times in the past week (I don’t often go into shops), and found simply shocking the usage of plastic bags. Both times I happened to end up at a till at the far end, with about 10 in use between me and the door. Both times, only one other person was making alternative arrangements to the disposable carrier bags. In fact it was even worse than that – the average use of them must have been over 95%, when I put together all of the people walking around the Brunswick Centre.
Quite what made London councils decide to quietly drop the much lauded plan to the ban the bag I don’t know, but it certainly can’t have been because voluntary measures are working.
No, this isn’t the biggest issue in the world – but as a symbol of humans being prepared to make very minor adjustments to their lives to save the environment, it’s pretty telling.
Not to mention the question of what business is doing. I asked for a comment form at the “help” desk, but I must have looked scary for the man there muttered that he was going to find some, then ran away and didn’t come back.
So Mr Waitrose, with your environmental claims: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!!!!! Why are the bags still casually laid out in free profusion at the end of each till?
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