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I take all my own green bags shopping and don't accept any plastic shopping bags - if I find I don't have enough green bags then I will buy another but I have a huge collection of them now! I also shop once a month at Aldi & love the fact that tehy make you pay if you want to use their bags! We still have a cupboard full of plastic shopping bags from years of shopping before we got green bags (and we have been using green bags for 4 years) but we use them as dirty nappy bags (instead of buying nappy sacks), bin bags & dirty clothes bags when we go away & they are slowly dwindling - they do get put in the dump here on the farm but instead of just covering the dump when it's full they burn it so there isn't much left to bury.

Hi we shop everywhere like safeway and iga but we don alot of shopping at aldi..I thik aldi is great cos all they do is swipe your stuff and you have to put it in your trolley.If you want bags they charge 15cents for them and you have to pack your things yourself..So wat happens is ppl keep bringing there bags so not many are getting used and wat u have gets reused when you go shopping.Ive heard they are going to start doing this at other shops aswell.PPl say that aldi is just lazy but there not there helping the enviroment by making ppl pay for bags if they want them

I get as many plastic bags as i can get. I agree with angieh. I also use them as bin liners in my bedroom, toilet, kids bedrooms, and bathroom. I don't buy the black bags either, as i find they can get stuck at times in the rubbish bin that gets emptied once a week, and the plastic shopping bags are just perfect to fit in there, and the bags i buy for the kitchen and lounge rooms are just the right size when they're full to go into the rubbish bin without getting stuck. I am always collecting the shopping bags, as they're very usefull, and the one's that i get dont rip either when i get home from shopping which is a bonus.

I love plastic shopping bags.

I also forget to take them shopping though use mine for bin bags too. My cupboard is overflowing though with the plastic bags now so thanks for the reminder. I never thought of not using plastic bags at all though. They come in handy. I always reuse them so I don't see it as so much of a waste. Maybe I should look at alternative options too!

I use any plastic bags I get from shops as rubbish bags. But my supply is dwindling as I am using my 'green bags' as often as possible. A true 'greenie' would suggest to use no bag at all. If you compost all food scraps, recycle properly and rinse off all non-recycables then your rubbish should be 'clean' enough to just place into your bin and then empty straight into your 'wheelie'. I can't say whether it would work with children in the house, unless you make a rule to ask mummy where the 'rubbish' should go. It looks as though I may be doing this myself in a week or two, so I will report back on whether it is successful.

I have to disagree with the whole plastic bag issue. You need plastic bags for your rubbish bin, just re-use the plastic bags from there for the bins. Don't go and buy those extra black rubbish bags if you don't really need them.