People are just realising supermarkets actually mean ‘for life’ with Bags for Life

Did you cognize a container for beingness tin really past you a lifetime? (Image: Getty)

The instauration of Bags for Life astatine supermarkets and different businesses astir the UK has changed the mode we store for the better.

Most of america retrieve the flimsy integrative bags we utilized to get astatine the supermarket - you were fortunate if they didn't illness by the clip you got your shopping home.

But, arsenic portion of a thrust to trim the usage of single-use plastics successful the past mates of decades, shops and supermarkets astir the UK introduced the sturdier bags for life, which tin beryllium re-used implicit and implicit again.

But did you cognize a container for beingness really tin past you an full lifetime?

A treatment connected net forum Mumsnet was afloat of members amazed to larn that galore supermarkets successful the UK volition springiness you a caller container for beingness for escaped if you instrumentality successful an old, worn, oregon damaged one.

Many supermarkets volition springiness you a escaped caller container for beingness (Image: Getty)

The idiosyncratic who posted the taxable admitted they'd lone conscionable learned this themselves, saying: “Honestly, I conscionable recovered retired that if your Bag for Life gets damaged, you tin instrumentality it backmost to the supermarket, and they’ll regenerate it for free!

"I ever thought ‘Bag for Life’ was conscionable a fancy mode of saying ‘sturdier integrative bag’ – but no, it’s virtually for life. How did I not cognize this?! Have I been throwing them distant similar an implicit fool each these years?! Please archer maine I’m not the lone 1 who lone conscionable figured this out…”

And it rapidly became apparant it wasn't conscionable them, with galore admitting they’d unknowingly been binning their reusable bags for years alternatively of swapping them for a caller one.

Some supermarkets similar Morrisons don't connection escaped replacement bags (Image: Getty)

Which supermarkets volition swap bags for life

Here's what each of the UK's large supermarkets accidental connected replacing bags for life:

• Asda: “If your Bag for Life breaks oregon gets damaged, we volition happily regenerate it escaped of charge.”
• Sainsbury’s: “We connection reusable Bags for Life, made from 100 per cent recycled content. When they deterioration down, we regenerate them for escaped and recycle the aged bag.”
• Tesco: “If your Tesco Bag for Life becomes worn out, bring it to the checkout and speech it for a caller one, escaped of charge.”
• M&S: “You tin instrumentality your Bag for Life for replacement oregon recycling erstwhile they deterioration out.”
• Morrisons: No escaped replacements. Morrisons scrapped integrative Bags for Life and replaced them with insubstantial alternatives.
• Aldi: No escaped replacements. Aldi does not connection a argumentation for swapping aged Bags for Life for caller ones.

"Many shoppers don’t realise that ‘Bags for Life’ are much than conscionable a sturdier alternate to single-use integrative - they’re portion of a wider effort to trim waste," said Richard Price from the online supermarket BritSuperstore.

"Supermarkets offering escaped replacements are encouraging customers to reuse alternatively than repurchase, which is simply a measurement towards much sustainable buying habits.

"The information that truthful galore radical are lone conscionable discovering this shows there’s inactive a spread successful awareness. If much shoppers took vantage of these policies, we could importantly chopped down connected integrative discarded and unnecessary spending."