Supermarket bag claims an empty gesture?
I wasn't surprised when I read in the morning papers that just six months after pledging to cut down on plastic bag usage, at least two supermarket chains have failed to do that. Worse, they're actually getting through more of them, according to retail trade magazine The Grocer.
Sainsburys and Asda are the chains named in the report, but I'll bet they're not the only ones. In my local branch of Tesco, and even in environment-loving Waitrose I'm still looked at like a freak for bringing my own bag, and have to wrestle with shop assistants to prevent them providing me with a new one.
So how does this make you feel about other promises that are made to us by supermarkets and other stores claiming to do the 'green' thing? Hardly a day goes by when another large organisation doesn't make some pledge or other. Some of these may well be genuine, but I'm now far less inclined to trust them.
