World of Wines Carrier Bag Initiative

Clive Roberts, Owner of World of Wines:

“We wanted to do something positive in our own small way to help the environment. I don’t want my children wading through landfill sites just to get around our countryside. So we came up with this idea.

We think a bag can be used safely five times. The bags cost us 9p each so there are three winners!

1. The customers are going to get perhaps as much as 50p back just by reusing a World of Wines carrier bag when they buy from us.
2. We save on the cost of buying quite so many new bags.
3. The environment wins as less plastic goes into landfill.

He goes on to explain that they tried really hard to find a paper bag with handles that could carry three bottles of wine at a competitive price; but failed. It’s a sad fact that a paper bag costs three times the amount for a plastic bag.

“Our shop managers will put no more than three bottles of wine into a reuse bag. Equally customers cannot purchase three bottles of wine and present three bags hoping for 30p!”

I know it’s not much in the grand scheme of things but we also wanted to show that if businesses think creatively about how they work, how they manage both large and small things, we can all have a positive effect- no matter how small; they all add up.”

World of Wines operate three stores in Henfield, Steyning and Storrington. This news follows attempts in London to ban carirer bags.