In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
  
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
  
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
  
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.
  

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

 

[SandraD22]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

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One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

Why don't the supermarkets reuse the boxes their products are delivered in to deliver customer orders

 

[bluetang]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

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One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

Hello! Are cardboard cartons only for the recycle cardboard machines. Most Bunnings stores put them out for their customers to pack their purchases in. Why can"t the supermarkets do the same for home deliveries?

 

[Suzanne rose]

I hate these paper bags, we too have a huge stack of these.
Hubby is going to use them in the garden as he starts to plant new plants.

Cardboard boxes sounds like a good idea , then the delivery guy can pick them up next time but I don't think it will work.
1. Boxes will be too heavy for people to lift
2. You will have them hanging around until they arr picked up.
3. Then you will be using Boxes that have been store who knows where !
4 . Bunnings sell Boxes they are not for free! The free ones are the ones they have used.

So I feel Boxes sound good but not the answer

I actually think the plastic bags were the better choice as they are reusable.

 

[SBJSMum]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

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One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

We have one in each room to put recyclable stuff in. It means the little bins in each room only have rubbish that goes to landfill. When a bag is full we put it in the recycling bin. Works especially well in the bathroom for all the cardboard rolls from toilet paper and beside our desks for putting waste paper there. In the kitchen we have two near the bin, one for paper/ food cans/ glass bottles and jars as well as one for drink bottles and drink cans that are part of the 10 cent program. We put that one on the top of the bin on bin night for a local who collects them.

Doing this means we rarely have a stack of spare paper bags.

 

[Vikki.]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

View attachment 29116

One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

I’m curious, do theses companies charge customers for the paper bags which they deliver her groceries in?
if that’s the case, and she or others have a large collection, at 30c a pop, I can’t see much savings.

these companies have most of their items delivered in cardboard boxes, so why aren’t they providing these to customers at no cost!
My local Green grocer, Fresh and save, Dan Murphys, Golden Circle, Costco, Bottlemart, just to name a few, give away their cardboard boxes to customers at no cost.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I’m curious, do theses companies charge customers for the paper bags which they deliver her groceries in?
if that’s the case, and she or others have a large collection, at 30c a pop, I can’t see much savings.

these companies have most of their items delivered in cardboard boxes, so why aren’t they providing these to customers at no cost!
My local Green grocer, Fresh and save, Dan Murphys, Golden Circle, Costco, Bottlemart, just to name a few, give away their cardboard boxes to customers at no cost.

They charge 25c a bag , cost more than the plastic bags

 

[FANDANGO]

Why don,t these shops use plastic crates to deliver groceries? These could be returned after next delivery and used over and over again.

 

[Tipsy]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

View attachment 29116

One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

compost them, throw in your compost bin (if you have one) wet them down or soak them first.... they originally came from trees so put them to good use.... do any of your neighbours have compost bins for the gardening or hell create compost and sell the stuff, its not bloody rocket science

 

[mylittletibbies]

Why don't the supermarkets reuse the boxes their products are delivered in to deliver customer orders

WI doubt they would have enough, and the storage problem.

 

[sheza61]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

View attachment 29116

One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Why don,t these shops use plastic crates to deliver groceries? These could be returned after next delivery and used over and over again.

Now that's a good idea, collapsible ones to save room on storage.

 

[Carol]

I remember when our grocer used to deliver our order in boxes. Unpack them onto the table & take box with them. And that was for a family of 6.

 

[sheza61]

I use my paper bags for my small recycling I hang it in the laundry when it's full straight into my yellow bin and my plastics go in a plastic bag for recycling through Kirby recycling

 

[Mazda52]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

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One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

You can drop them at any Charity / Op Shop. We give them out to customers who forget to bring their own bags. Recycle!

 

[Geronimo 2022]

In the bid to reduce carbon footprint, online grocery shopping has become a wonderful ally. We no longer need to jump behind the wheel and burn petrol for every shopping trip. It's also a brilliant time-saver!

But it seems there's a hiccup in this dream scenario, at least for one Australian mum who has urged Woolworths and Coles to ditch the paper bags when delivering her groceries.

With two pre-school-aged children under her care, the convenience of online grocery shopping is immeasurable. For her, not only does it save precious gas money, but it also means no towing kids around aisles or dealing with supermarket tantrums, and it graciously gifts her with time–the one thing money can't buy.

But it seems Woolworths and Coles' efforts in trying to make home deliveries environmentally friendly have left her unsatisfied.

'Stop delivering my online shopping in bags. I have no use for them, and they go straight from your delivery truck into my bin,' she said.

For this mum, the problem lies in the excess of paper bags she accumulates weekly, as she ends up with a dozen or so bags every week.

View attachment 29116

One mum urged Woolworths and Coles to stop delivering her groceries in paper bags due to the excessive amount of paper bags she accumulates in a week. Image source: Freepik.

Unless you’ve found a way to reuse them, these bags just end up in the recycling bin or landfill. Paper bags are also less durable and, therefore, harder to reuse.

With her short trip from the front door to the kitchen pantry, these bags feel unnecessary. And even though they are made of recycled paper, it actually takes more energy to manufacture or recycle a paper bag.

Her stand: 'Plastic is not good, but more paper bags are not better'.

She posted her predicament on social media, asking if anyone had ideas to repurpose a glut of paper bags she'd accrued.

Suggestions included lining bins, using them for compost, and even igniting bonfires.

Australian supermarkets have started using paper bags when throwing the towel in the ring on reusable plastic bags in a bid to comply with stricter reusability measures, and pandemic restrictions necessitating contactless deliveries, all in the best interest of health and safety. But these bags did generate significant piles of waste.

In response to why the bags are still mandatory after the World Health Organisation’s announcement of the end of the global health emergency declaration due to COVID-19, a Woolworths spokesperson stated that they began to default to paper bags for deliveries to 'ensure [they] comply with the new Queensland government ban on plastic shopping bags that starts [September 1]'.

Meanwhile, a Coles representative mentioned that the bag-less option was removed during the pandemic for health and safety reasons but assured that they are 'constantly reviewing delivery options'.

Finding themselves in a similar dilemma, one savvy Coles Shopper took their excessive amount of paper bags and used them as an underlay in a raised planter, which created a barrier between the soil and the ground to prevent weeds and pests from wreaking havoc on their garden.

While another shared that they now use the supermarket paper bags for whatever needed newspapers—perhaps to wrap items or packages in.

You can read more about these brilliant solutions to the excessive amount of paper bags accumulated in this article.

Coles’ and Woolworths' efforts in moving away from plastic should definitely be applauded, but it’s clear that paper might not be the best alternative. We suggest they dig deeper, explore and find a way to deliver groceries bag-free.

For members who are similarly dissatisfied with the volume of paper bags that come with their online deliveries, we encourage you to provide feedback to your local supermarkets to raise their awareness.

Key Takeaways

• A woman has criticised Coles and Woolworths for delivering their online groceries in bags, saying they are wasteful and immediately thrown away.
• Despite COVID-19 no longer being considered a global health emergency, the supermarkets continue to deliver using bags, which the author questions.
• Coles and Woolworths suspended their bagless crate-to-bench services during the pandemic and have since switched to reusable and paper bags, however, an investigation revealed that hundreds of millions of plastic bags were being secretively stockpiled and not recycled.
• The woman argues that although paper bags may seem like a better alternative to plastic, they are less durable and take more energy to manufacture or recycle.

If you have any of those brilliant repurposing ideas, we’d love to hear them! Let us know in the comments below.

Give them to the op shops.

 

[Trouper21]

We have one in each room to put recyclable stuff in. It means the little bins in each room only have rubbish that goes to landfill. When a bag is full we put it in the recycling bin. Works especially well in the bathroom for all the cardboard rolls from toilet paper and beside our desks for putting waste paper there. In the kitchen we have two near the bin, one for paper/ food cans/ glass bottles and jars as well as one for drink bottles and drink cans that are part of the 10 cent program. We put that one on the top of the bin on bin night for a local who collects them.

Doing this means we rarely have a stack of spare paper bags.

Some good ideas that you have put out there but why don't you take your 10cent items down and recycle them yourselves to help cover the costs of the bags (25 cents each).

 

[Deborah A Ross]

I hate these paper bags, we too have a huge stack of these.
Hubby is going to use them in the garden as he starts to plant new plants.

Cardboard boxes sounds like a good idea , then the delivery guy can pick them up next time but I don't think it will work.
1. Boxes will be too heavy for people to lift
2. You will have them hanging around until they arr picked up.
3. Then you will be using Boxes that have been store who knows where !
4 . Bunnings sell Boxes they are not for free! The free ones are the ones they have used.

So I feel Boxes sound good but not the answer

I actually think the plastic bags were the better choice as they are reusable.

So true

 

[Trudi]

I don't have any of those problems!

I go to the supermarket and do my own shopping using my own bags.

And I used to do that decades ago when my 3 kids were pre-schoolers. No tantrums in shops either.

 

[Trouper21]

I hate these paper bags, we too have a huge stack of these.
Hubby is going to use them in the garden as he starts to plant new plants.

Cardboard boxes sounds like a good idea , then the delivery guy can pick them up next time but I don't think it will work.
1. Boxes will be too heavy for people to lift
2. You will have them hanging around until they arr picked up.
3. Then you will be using Boxes that have been store who knows where !
4 . Bunnings sell Boxes they are not for free! The free ones are the ones they have used.

So I feel Boxes sound good but not the answer

I actually think the plastic bags were the better choice as they are reusable.

I haven't seen Bunnings sell their boxes and they cut boxes in half and put them out for customers to use at the checkouts.