Yeah but the tw*ts who wear clothing with the name on the outside are at least making a choice.

It's annoying when you take your car in to a garage for a service etc, a garage you are giving business to and paying, and they stick their name on your car wiithout asking giving them a free advert.

I always take them straight off. Once I even drove back and made the mechanic guy take it off.....

athelstan wrote:

EYorkshire wrote:

I find it odd in that it is your choice whether to accept a free carrier bag

They are NOT free here in Swiss supermarkets (in fact the you'll struggle to find anything that is "free" here)

Oh! then I'm in full agreement Bloody cheek
Advertising aside, I must admit to re-using the free bags and wish they were charged for here. There's no greater non recyclable polluter going plus there's more on the trees in the countryside than there are chickens on CG's ranch.

perhaps we should ask for plain bags when we buy things, does anyone know of a large store that provides bags (free or not ) that do not have their name, logo or slogan printed on.

Then if we are really ' green ' we use them again and again

OMG more free advertising...........

snappa wrote:

Yeah but the tw*ts who wear clothing with the name on the outside are at least making a choice.

It's annoying when you take your car in to a garage for a service etc, a garage you are giving business to and paying, and they stick their name on your car wiithout asking giving them a free advert.

I assume we are all going to rush out and remove the 'Land Rover' and 'Freelander 2' badges and logos off our vehicles.

Don't be silly we want everyone to know but it was our choice..... 2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

I'd rather make it law that all packaging had to have logo's on it. Then when litter is collected it is obvious which companies products are causing the litter. Then the local authority could charge those companies for collecting the litter. If the cost of the product had to rise to pay for this then the companie would do what they could to reduce the packaging and the litterers might be priced out of the market.

Boxer wrote:

Don't you think turning shopping bags inside out is a bit crazy .
Glad you dont live next door to me.

Stopped using free supermarket carrier bags as kitchen bin liners, Now have to buy bags on a roll that do the same job and are probably produced in the same factory. Still, I suppose the manufactures are glad of the new business, as supplying supermarkets has dropped off. Landfill now full of plain paid for bags instead of free ones with logo.

The majority of supermarket carrier bags are now biodegradable and will degrade in landfills, whereas many bin bags wont.

many go into harrods, to buy something just to get a carrierbag with the name emblazoned on it. Wheter we like it or not, we live in a world where name and branding is everything, rather like we may not like beckham, but many people who will buy the Evoque love her.
Majority of Evoque buyers will be style choice buyers not off roaders or true 4x4 requirers.