At our Builders Exchange we love to to look back at old surveys to compare and contrast results.

Reuse of items and use of own bags when shopping were also measured in the 2007 survey. There have been distinct increases in the numbers reporting that they were doing these behaviours (Figure 10). Since 2007, the proportion of respondents saying that they always or very often reused items has more than doubled, from 18% to 45%. Those saying that they never reused items had decreased by nine percentage points to 13%.

Figure 10 shows that those who always or very often take their own bags when they shop had nearly trebled since 2007 from 25% to 70%. In 2007 there was a larger proportion of respondents who would sometimes or occasionally take their own bags (22%), but the survey findings suggest that this has become more frequent for the majority of shoppers. In 2007, a third of respondents said they never took their own
bags – this has now reduced to just 10% of respondents.

Double, trebled great work!