carrier bag

British

noun

a large paper or plastic bag for carrying shopping

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"He was holding a carrier bag - that was the thing that linked him back to the incident with getting dropped off in the car."

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Wind thrashes around the car park in the dim dawn light, rattling the corrugated supermarket shutters and sending discarded carrier bags billowing as rain tumbles on to the asphalt.

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The move builds on previous environmental legislation from 2023 that banned supermarket carrier bags, plastic straws, drinks stirrers, cotton buds, and confetti, among other things.

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"They don't just buy one Son shirt, they're coming away with two carrier bags full of stuff with Son's name on the back."

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"There were a couple of boxes and a few carrier bags and they thought about just shredding it all due to how much paper there was," Ms Pitcher, 68, said.

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