Popular and standardised tool that can be used to assess the technical and material solutions in packaging with regards to their environmental impact is called the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Results of such assessment shape new directions in designing packaging, directions which include such factors as: feed-stock used for production of packaging material, recycling fraction contribution, carbon footprint (minimising of greenhouse gases emissions) etc. Life Cycle Assessments and carbon footprint analyses performed in COBRO for selected shopping bags is an attempt to show more beneficial solutions especially in the context of proposals to charge a number of shopping bags types with additional recycling fees.