Recycle for Merseyside and Halton

Use reusable shopping bags whenever possible. Some shops offer money back or some form of reward to all customers reusing their old carrier bags. Most supermarkets (e.g. Sainsbury's, Tesco, Safeway and Marks Spencer) have a 'bag for life' scheme - large, tough, reusable shopping bags - and when the bag can no longer be used the supermarket will replace it with a new bag free of charge and recycle the old one. See your local supermarket for details. Some Tesco and Safeway supermarkets also provide carrier bag recycling bins for the public to use. 500 million plastic bags are used in the UK every week and every plastic bag thrown into landfill takes 500 years to decay.