P2: I didn’t know about that but it would be a good idea//
P5: I think with the clothing in H&M if you take a bag of clothes in they give //you like a £5 voucher
P2 & P3: Yeah we do that //
P4: I always remember umm it’s not like a new concept but my mom and dad always saying like umm
with coke bottles if you had a coke (.) say if you had // had bought them if you took them back they’d
give you the money back for them (.) and stuff so that’s like where all the concept has come from (.) and I
think incentives like that that that’s more inclined to do that would you have ever taken your stuff back
to H&M unless you would have got money back//
P2: //Yeah my mom said that//
All participants: No//
P3: Because you’d have to carry it there//
P1: It’s too much effort isn’t it//
P4: Yeah//
P2: I think people need to see that there’s um (..) maybe not fiscal but as long as there’s some kind of benefit to them//
Interviewer: Do you believe the new law has had a positive impact on the environment, and the way we
shop and recycle now?
P2: Yes (….) Yep //
P3: Even though people complain like we said (.) they do//
P2: Yeah (.) people do try to slam you down they really like I’ve had someone going ‘AND YOUR DOING
THIS, AND LIKE PRIMARK ARENT DOING THIS’ yeah but like we’ve got plastic bags (.) and you
know they really try and hurt you but then you like ‘so you don’t want a bag?’ ‘No I bought my own’ so (..)
what was all that about?//
P3: They should do bags for life but make them trendy//
P2: We do bags for life//
P3: Trendy bags for life//
P4: Yeah Superdrug do bags for life// lot of people are doing them nicer and better quality bags//
P2: //I think a lot of them are doing them now//
P5: A lot of the stores though are changing bags to paper bags (.) so people haven’t got to pay now//
P4: But are paper bags even better (.) like there’s still a bi g process for it to all have to go through//
P1: I just shove whatever I can in my handbag (all participants laugh and agree) like if i don’t have a bag
you see me shoving it in pockets now in my handbag//
P5: If I haven’t got a bag though I feel like if I’ve bought something (.) I feel like they are going to look as if
I’ve pinched it or something//cause I’m just walking out with it//
All Participants: //Yeah//
P2: A lot of people say that they’re like ‘oh no I don’t want a bag but (.) aren’t security going to stop us
and like accuse us of stealing’ and I’m like well you’ve got your receipt (..) but no people do kind of say
that I haven’t got a bag I’m going to be accused of like just walking out the shop with it //
Interviewer: What do you believe would be the best solution for the future of recycling? //
P2: I think incentives (.) I think that’s probably the best way to do it //
P1: And more education on it implementing it into schools now like for younger children//
P2: Like they have with sex education (..) they need to know from a younger age like I mean they have
probably already started doing it you know as the parents like umm bring them up but I think they need
a formal education on it as well//
P3: Do you remember when like Anya Hirchmarch did that bag that said ‘I’m not a plastic bag’ (.) I think
there’s needs to be another thing like that //
P5: That went crazy didn’t it//
P3: Yeah that did go crazy and people sold them on the internet for like £20 odd quid and there only like
a £1 or something but I think we should get rid of cardboard bags as well like paper bags cause you know
when it rains// like the other day it was raining and you could see it was putting people off shopping (.)
so I think it’s going to have a bad impact on the industry if they carry on doing that (.) I think it should be
like bags for life//
P2: //ohhh they go all soggy don’t they//
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