Carrier Bags

Yes carrier bags can be reused and recycled.

REUSED
How?

• Use them again and again as shopping bags.
• Use them as bin liners.
• Keep your feet dry in leaking shoes/boots.
• Use them as packaging to protect fragile items.
• You can turn them into plastic ribbons for crochet/knitting.

See here for 39 ways to reuse your plastic bags

RECYCLE
Where?
Most large supermarkets run recycling schemes including;

• Tesco's 
• Sainbury's
• ASDA 
• Waitrose

DID YOU KNOW?

• Around 42% of us fail to recycle carrier bags. Annually the UK wastes 6 billion carrier bags which last year amounted to 40,000 tonnes. 
• The most important action regarding carrier bags is to reduce or re-use them. This is easily done by using a "bag for life" which is available at all major supermarkets or by re-using your carrier bags. Try to adopt a new habit of taking a handful of carrier bags with you whenever you go shopping or leaving a handful in your car.