by Michael Smith
It's in the bag at Woolies
As British stores, whether high street, supermarket or corner shop, are making an attempt to use lees and less of plastic bags, and legal measures are in the offing, one should not be surprised, to in fact ban, in due course, the polythene grocery bags and carriers, Woolworths now makes it possible for you to go and ditch the plastic carrier all together.
You can go, from the end of September 2008 when they will be available, to your nearest Woolies and pick up one of the new re-usable bags of theirs and do your part in ridding this country of the blight of the polythene carrier.
Heavy bottles are no problems with one of their divided bottle carriers holding six bottles and priced at £2.50 a bag and extra large drawstring shopping bags that can handle a lot of shopping are priced at £4 each.
I am hoping to be able, once they are about, to bring a review on the large shopper and one or two other items of the Woolies “green” range.
Bright ideas for recycling
In addition to the re-usable bags for your bottles, groceries and other shopping needs, Woolworths also makes recycling a dawdle by stocking, from the end of September of this year, a can crushed for aluminium cans – with bag for the cans – at £20 retail, which is wall-mounted and makes short work of tins and cans.
Furthermore they will have a set of 3 recycling bags in different colors for the different recyclables such as paper, glass and plastic. For tins you have the one that goes with the crusher, and they are sold at £7 the set.
So, get yourself over to Woolies to get your green credentials sorted. As soon as I am able to lay my hands on some of those things from Woolies I shall give you, the reader of the Green (Living) Review here, also reviews on the bags and such themselves.
© M Smith (Veshengro), September 2008
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Go Green at Woolworths
