Woollies 'bag for good' reusable bags on sale for $0.20
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Woolworths Bag for Good Reusable Carry Bag $0.20 @ Woolworths (Selected Stores)
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Inflation. Thanks Biden.
Thanks Biden.
Umm… Don't you mean: "Lets go Brandon!"?
Worse meme ever
In the good old days shopping bags where totally free.
Plastic in Australia, thick proper paper bags in Biden/Trump land.
Guess who is the bigger loser? Consumers!
not online
Well even at 15cents some people still kinda prefer buying plastic, thinking that in plastic they can fit more stuff (hence need less no. of bags).
But ultimately their bag is wear down, and it wont be replaced for free, whereas green reusable one is replaceable for 100% free at any woolies store (given they aint OOS)
plastic ones could be durable, Woollies in Victoria issued some free ones (thought they were virgin plastic) at early 2018 when got into thin plastic free.
I got ~ half a dozen, and some of those are still working. But they are no longer available since sometime in 2019.
The replacement 15c plastic bag made from recycled plastic, which I purchased, seems to be lucky not tearing up after 3-6 month, too soft, not strong enough.
Fabric ones are always good. so they are free to replace? never knew that!
Can confirm is 20c at my local in Qld too
people just steal them
So if you can steal something then paying a lower price for it is no longer a bargain?
If you can afford a bag what do you think will go in it…
20c and they will replace it when it breaks … it has always been a bargain for this bag
You all can get stuffed. Imma download a car if i can.
I work in the self serve it's just so worrying how angry and aggressive people can get when you point out they haven't paid for the bag.
“Should be provided”? Your rights are not being taken away, get a hold of yourself.
found the bag thief
Username checks out.
Lucky Australia has people like you fighting for justice.
An employee told me once that some customers use them as bin liners and it irritates the crap out of him
some customers use them as bin liners
Yeah I know a lot of people that do. Pisses me off I have to buy bin liners as well as hoard everything like bottles/cans just to get the added tax back or bags for no real reason but a rainy day I might need one or until I accumulate enough to make recycling worthwhile.
I snagged 15,000 of the free bags at self checkout over a period of months knowing they'd no longer be available.
@Lets Go Brandon: Depending where you worked, managers encouraged you to take bulk amounts home or they literally went to landfill. So you grabbing them helped loads with their stats and i assume you had more of a use for them then just chucking in the bin
@Lets Go Brandon: I kept some of mine in the boot, and they literally just broke up to little pieces after a while, was a bi+ch to clean up
@tharlow: I don't think they are biodegradable. I believe they are recycled plastics. Falling apart means the chains are just not holding a form suitable to make a useful carry bag. But it's still plastic.
It'd be great to hear from someone who knows exactly what these are made of.
@Tommyaka: Don't worry too much about microplastics, it's pretty much already part of the food chain. They have already found 30,000 types of enzymes created by microbes that can break down 10 types of plastic across the planet, and they find more and more each day.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21
In the words of Jurassic Park, life finds a way.
And in the future it might even become integral part of the food chain. And the lack of plastics might cause parts of the food chain to collapse, as countless specialised microbes will need plastics to thrive.
And unhygienic unwashed, so in the bin they go.
Why do you need to wash a bag that's had groceries in it.
The groceries are clean and in new packages so they won't make the bag dirty@spaceflight: am in Victoria, ~ Jan 2018, the state got into thin plastic-free. WWS and Coles handed out 15c bags for free in the first couple of weeks.
I collected ~ 8-10 of them, and they still work well! some minor holes, but still serve their purpose.
But later bought some 15c bags manufactured from recycled plastic, they can bearly last 3 months! not sure we are winning or not with those recycled plastic bags.
And unhygienic unwashed, so in the bin they go.
I agree. Reusing a bag that’s had a meat tray in it is just… nasty…
Reusing a bag that’s had a meat tray in it is just… nasty…
Nothing comes in old style meat trays now.
All supermarket meat is factory packaged and sealed so they are airtight.That means no air gets in and as a bonus it means they do not leak.
Thanks will definitely buy some more, only got a few.
I never understood how going plastic free involved thicker plastic bags that take longer to break down. Reusable bags still end up down drains and turtles necks, recycling them takes resources too.
Yep. I have long held that the plastic bag ban was performative greenwashing from the government and a thinly veiled cash grab from the supermarkets.
Now we have to buy much-too-large plastic bags both for our shopping and our bins, and even picking up after our pets.
Yep, total garbage. People got over having to pay for a bag quickly for the convenience
thinly veiled cash grab from the supermarkets.
This is exactly it.
People are so quick to forget that you used to never pay for the bags in your shopping. Now you pay 15cents for the privlidge. It's ridiculous.
I think these woven plastic bags are terrible adding way more microplastics to the environment.
Never bought one, never used one, never will.
Same.
I push the trolley home after each shop then sell the trolley so my groceries are free.I use an angle grinder to make trolleys into fire pits then sell them on Etsy
Why not? What other bags do you use when doing shopping? The cheaper one-use plastic bags? What if the trolley you're using doesn't go past the shopfront and your car is far away?
These last a lifetime (assuming you don't actively try and and destroy it), been cycling through a few for many years, stilll holding up very well.
The cheaper one-use plastic bags?
They can be used more than once.
unlikely for lifetime, but easily achieve ~ 10 years. we got some of those in SA, then moved to Victoria, some old Coles greener bags still live.
easily achieve ~ 10 years
Depends how you use them. I've had to return a few for replacement, after the stitching came apart at the top corners. It seems the stitching is just cut off, no attempt is made to secure the ends of the thread.
Next time I replace one, I'm going to put some PVA glue onto the ends of the stitching, and see if that secures the ends of the thread.
@Laziofogna: Plastic bags are actually recyclable and not the issue. People just need to recycle them with the soft plastics.
Cotton bags require way more water use and crop fields etc. to produce.@blakey32: These green bags can be recycled at the Coles/Woolies plastic recycling bins.
https://redcycle.net.au/what-to-redcycle/
Oh snap deflation has kicked in.
Hmph. Only dropped to $0.25 at my local.
These bags maybe resuable but we keep buying them whenever we go shopping, so we ended up with hundreds of them now. That sit around gathering dust. Why not just use them as bin lining. Lots of ppl forget or can't be bothered bringing shopping bags to go shopping, so they always buy these reusable bags so end up with thousands sitting around at home
It is a feel-good green initiative which serves no benefit to the environment. Maybe we should campaign for Colesworths to make their heavy duty 'bag for good' in Australia rather than China?
Why are Woolworths reducing the price of these? I don't think people were complaining about the price given the options available.
Excess of stock?
My guess is that they hope that some people will be more likely to use them at Woolworths stores. It might only be a small number, but if 0.1% of people started preferencing their local woolworths instead of Coles or other alternative, that's still many millions in market share they gained, at no real cost.
Advertising? They should really give these out for free so there's an army of people carrying green woolies bags everywhere!
Thousands of rare fish and turtles get caught up in these bags every year. I should know, I've been using these bags to collect stock for my pet store. Very effective.
Online still showing 0.50.. will check at the store if it is reduced in NSW/Sydney
50c at my local.
Semi-related question about these: When they eventually start to break and the handle falls off or they develop a tear, how do you dispose of them? Are they counted as soft plastic for the in-store soft plastic recycling bins?
You bring it back to woolies for free replacement.
Edit: It's literally written on the bag and you can see it in the post if you zoom in
Spotted, ty. I actually have a bunch of different ones (namely, the BWS wine carrier ones) that I want to dispose of. Nice to know they'll replace these for free, but in addition I checked with one of the service staff today and they mentioned that you can recycle those bags in the soft plastic collection bins too.
Anyone found it for 20c in the eastern suburbs?
Eastern suburbs of ….?
Melbourne
Betoota.
Cotton farming is worse for the environment than plastic bags if you reuse and recycle/dispose of them correctly.
Most people did reuse them and dispose of them correctly. Much like most people disposed of and/or recycled their bottles and cans. Regarding the bottle and can recycling - the scheme in NSW is simply a money spinner for the major beverage corporations and Cleanaway. The result is a far worse impact upon the environment than anything before it.
Not at my local store :(
seen at Margate & Kippa Ring QLD
Available at Leichhardt NSW
good price! not the best one but good enough
I got some of those 15c from the previous deal, ~ half a year ago?