Bags subject to charges

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Dear Mirgos,

I think the measure to charge for plastic bags is great!
I have occasionally seen customers packing a shopping trolley-sized purchase into bags.

However, I am disappointed that customers still get one free for frozen food.
At Westside Mirgo you even have two different freezer bags to choose from. It's also no big deal to take a bag with you.
And if your wife/ husband forgets to take one or goes shopping spontaneously, I think there are plenty of ways to bring the goods home. After the free stacking on the arms, the cheapest one costs five centimes ; )

I would ask Mirgo to charge for the free eco-recycling bags from 2017.

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All replies (7)

Alteshaus

I even think they should be much more expensive, only then do you get annoyed buying one and get used to always having a bag or pouch with you. Humans are creatures of habit.

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fischma

The free bags for small ones were quite cheap. The problem was more the people who handled them carelessly. Is the big bag more ecological?

It's a shame that there are people who always want to educate others.

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sirio60

First and foremost, you want to educate the careless (whatever that means). However, the question is how they can be educated other than through their wallets.

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Guest

Please, educate believe now it starts, the 0.05 are only there to optimize profits. If someone wants to protect the environment, he/she should do without products with palm oil/fat because they are being overexploited ? ?

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sirio60

According to Migros, the income from the sale of disposable plastic bags goes to external environmental projects, and even the most critical media have not questioned this so far. I would therefore be interested to know what serious grounds there are for claiming the opposite. Or is this simply speculation in the sense of "let's not kid ourselves"?

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Guest

Which environmental projects should this go towards? If Migros wants to do something good, it should do without environmentally destructive products containing palm oil or palm fat, but most people don't care that the primeval forest is "cut down" or other farmland falls victim to cheap oil. Do you want to leave your children and grandchildren a ruined environment?

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Guest

Hello everyone

Migros is not enriching itself by selling the bags. The profit made from the sale of the Raschel bags will be used entirely for external environmental projects.

We are currently evaluating individual environmental projects, but will be happy to keep you up to date as soon as the projects are finalized.

Regarding palm oil: Migros is not aiming to do away with palm oil altogether. Palm oil performs better than other oils in life cycle assessments. Switching to other oils cannot be a permanent solution; the criticized environmental problems would merely be transferred to the other oils. This is also confirmed by the WWF, see: https://assets.wwf.ch/downloads/2016_03_wwf_mag_palmoel_de.pdf.

The only sensible way forward is therefore the sustainable cultivation of oil palms. This is why Migros has switched its palm oil to sustainable sources and checks this annually. The topic has already been discussed in detail here and I hope that this helps you and send you my best regards, Tabi

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