2 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Now you can use paper bags for your rubbish, even better

We recycle as much as we can. GF is very much into it. She also regularly picks up rubbish and you don't see many Thais doing that.  

16 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Now you can use paper bags for your rubbish, even better

Paper bags are no good for wet food waste (Garbage). I use my plastic shopping bags to keep the wet waste for composting separate so that it can easily be sorted at the waste transfer station at Onuch Rd Bangkok. I will have to buy plastic bin liners now. 

I am quite tempted to go to a Tesco on that day just to see the chaos that may ensue at the counter. 

Great alternative from a BRITISH company - congratulations!

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Starting Dec. 4, Tesco Lotus will replace the plastic bags it offers customers with paper at all of its roughly 2,000 stores.

Will they be for free?

1 hour ago, johng said:

Yes anything that's been refrigerated will sweat in the outside heat...the bag will get wet

your cold beer,milk,butter and frozen peas fall on the floor...????  especially bad when dangling from  motorbike handlebars at 60++ KPH

Not difficult for you to take you own canvas bags on the bike is it?

 

 

1 minute ago, jak2002003 said:

take you own canvas bags

I'd rather have the free Tesco's plastic ones thanks.

57 minutes ago, Estrada said:

Paper bags are no good for wet food waste (Garbage). I use my plastic shopping bags to keep the wet waste for composting separate so that it can easily be sorted at the waste transfer station at Onuch Rd Bangkok. I will have to buy plastic bin liners now. 

Banana leaves are the perfect alternative to your beloved plastic/paper...

Thais trying to walk into Lotus with bags, is not going to go

down well with the security guards. !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

But well done Louts,  wonder if Big C will follow. ?

 

 

 

When you say they use so much plastic bags here, because plastic bags here are small and thin..

 

in my home country, 1 grocery plastic bags equals to 10 thai plastic bags when it come to weight, I see everyday people use plastic bag all over the world.

 

the problem isn’t plastic, the problem is people throwing them everywhere..

 

but hey this is 2018 and most people this days are hysterical about everything...

 

 

I’m sure most of you can sleep well now... but don’t forget year 2030 people will complain about using paper bags because we are cutting down all the woods.... humans are never <deleted> satisfied, by reading thaivisa everyday there are pretty easy to spot miserableness... poor people 

1 hour ago, Chassa said:

Obviously you don't buy meat or vegetables at Makro!

I stand corrected !!!! let me edit my post to include "At the checkout they do not provide bags.....

2 hours ago, blinkers said:

I can remember 40 odd years ago, all supermarkets in Australia used to put your groceries in a large brown paper bag.

Of course we don't want to cut down forests either. and recycled paper wouldn't be enough for the demand. so this is going in cycles, we don't want plastic, but then we don't want to cut down trees either, there's a fortune to be made if someone can come up with a suitable alternative.

 

3 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

...............

I guess, like in our house, your house may be likened to this cartoon as well ...................

 

 

Guilty as charged. Most of my spare plastic bags are in layers in the bins and I've been wondering what happens to them eventually in the great, sort-on-the-street Thai garbage system. I would rather use paper bags in my bins - not use any plastic bags for anything, even garbage bins.

But Makro sells plastic bags, containers, cups , straws. Food sellers buy them, Thai's toss them out of the vehicles soon after finishing the food. I bike daily and the roadsides are littered with trash. Absolutely no respect for their enviroment.

 

The problem isn't the plastiic's, it's what people do with them.

11 minutes ago, ryane66 said:

The problem isn't the plastiic's, it's what people do with them.

Exactly, and this will take a generation (at least) until they'll understand. But hopefully this is a start.

3 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Good news, let us hope more follow. I will, however, make one small point if I may. When I go to Lotus in Market Village Hua Hin I take a big bag with me that I keep in the truck. It is folded up, and I place it in the child seat of the trolley. I have been asked by security on a number of occasions that I have to check the bag into the depository ( for want of a better word ), where I get a token. Then retrieve it on my way out. When I explain it is empty, and folded up I am met with a blank look. So.....I pay for my shopping, go back to the entrance, collect my canvas bag, transfer my shopping from the plastic bags to the canvas bag, leave the plastic bags in the trolley and walk out..........

If they have shopping baskets have the checkout folks put the groceries back into the basket without using plastic bags at all. Then transfer the groceries to your bag. I do this all the time at FoodLand - they know me and know I rarely accept plastic bags so they know to simply place the goods back into the shopping basket (carried or wheeled). From there I wheel or carry the goods out to my bicycle and place them into the pannier(s).

3 hours ago, blinkers said:

I can remember 40 odd years ago, all supermarkets in Australia used to put your groceries in a large brown paper bag.

Of course we don't want to cut down forests either. and recycled paper wouldn't be enough for the demand. so this is going in cycles, we don't want plastic, but then we don't want to cut down trees either, there's a fortune to be made if someone can come up with a suitable alternative.

I remember that. Plastic bags were scarce. The butchers and fishmongers also used grease proof paper instead of plastic for wrapping meat. It sometimes leaked a little, but was a small price to pay for being more environmentally friendly.

Good, but I hope the paper bags are of high enough quality not to rip. Would like to be able to buy good quality hemp reusable bags at the counter, my old reusable ones are in tatters already.

OMG, it was one of the most pressing issues facing Thailand especially since Farang came in and started video blogging about it in front of 7/11.

 

Thailand 6.0 here we come

3 hours ago, blinkers said:

recycled paper wouldn't be enough for the demand. 

If they empty the immigration archives it should provide enough paper for the next 100 years. Got nice passport copies and bank statements to make the bags stylish, too.

5 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Good, but I hope the paper bags are of high enough quality not to rip. Would like to be able to buy good quality hemp reusable bags at the counter, my old reusable ones are in tatters already.

Can you imagine the possibilities of reusable bag production startups? 

Hope springs eternal towards society and the false economy. 

 

Go green...

Now that's how it's done.  Kudos to a retailer to take the initiative.  The plastic bag problem starts and ends at the retail level. 
Consumers take what is given.  Give 1000 consumers plastic bags, 995 consumers will take plastic bags; give 1000 consumers paper bags, and 1000 consumers no long use plastic bags. 
Also, once major retailer no longer buys plastic bags from the Petro-Chemical industry.  If enough retailers jump on board, it kills the profitability of producing single use plastic bags, and slowly drives that particular segment of the industry out of business.

This may be incentive enough to start shopping at Tesco.  Hopefully the other major retailers such as Big C will follow suit.

Joking aside I'm all for dispensing with the cheap disposable bags altogether or at least charging for them.

 

Me and the good lady wife now take our super-strong bags to the supermarche every second weekend. We can get the entire two weeks shopping into two massive reusable bags rather than 6 to 8 disposable ones.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Tesco Lotus will replace the plastic bags it offers customers with paper at all of its roughly 2,000 stores.

So they'll be contributing to deforestation and climate change in another form?

4 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Step in right direction.

What direction might that be mkp? Backwards!!

 

Although i'm not completely and utterly devastated at the news, I am upset that Tesco have read some TVForum posts on this and decided to act in this neanderthal manner. Yes you, you,, posters!! And what does it really mean? It means more business for Big C. Who, already issue environmentally green plastic bags. What more could they offer?

 

With the 7-11 scandals and now Tesco!!?? What next?

 

ps: If this nonsense actually becomes a reality, I might as well pull the Tesco bag down from the fence and continue the durability experiment with just 7-11 and Big C bags.

 

 

6 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

So they'll be contributing to deforestation and climate change in another form?

A valid point.  The government and/or retailers need to encourage the reusable heavy duty bags that you bring with you and there's only way to do that which is to make it prohibitively expensive not to.

Now this is the way to go... but just make it permanent.

 

 
But well done Louts,  wonder if Big C will follow. ?
 
 
 

Of course not, they are French, will take some time for them to digest this.

21 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Now this is the way to go... but just make it permanent.

 

Oh,  thought it was.

Silly me. TIT. 

 

Ps A brown paper bag is aways handy,  if you bring a rough one home. !!!!!!

sorry two brown paper bags, just in case, .    

 

The wife allways takes her own bags gets extra points at Tesco ,if we ever do have plastic bags ,use them as bin liners

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