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post #31 of 38
2/22/10 at 7:46pm
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Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45 View Post
Personally I'm more against this then for it. I can see your point in cutting waste, BUT for those of us who do monthly grocery shopping and have 2 carts full (we have to stock up - closest store is 1/2 drive for us), the idea of using the "renewable" bags would not work at all. Do you know how many of them we would have to buy? And what if we go with the bags and not have enough? And how will they tell if you are using your own bags or not?

We usually come home with 20-30 bags of things from our shopping. It would be a disadvantage to us in many ways.
You would get used to it and it wouldn't be a big deal. And if you didn't have enough bags with you, you would be reqired to BUY some bags as another poster said. You would be surprised how you could make renewable bags "work" if you had no choice.

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Originally Posted by white cat lover View Post
I'm at the same disadvantage as GK - we are 30 minutes from the nearest grocery store. I mean, yes, there is one in town - but they do not carry much as the town has less than 1,000 people! It would be a PITA for me to have to buy all reusable bags, as often on grocery runs we are buying for several weeks at a time.

Yes - I use reusable bags, but if I don't have enough it's nice to know I can get paper or plastic ones.
In life we are required to deal with PITA situations, it's part of life

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BTW we have a Toyota - not a SUV where you can stack things. Our Toyota is getting 35-40 mpg - no way am I trading vehicles

If we are getting more frozen things in the warmer months, we sometimes will bring a cooler or two to put those that kind of stuff in.

We do reuse our plastic bags for many things. Paper bags would not be so bad - we can deal with carrying 20-30 paper bags
Golden, you said you had two carts full when you go shopping, how do you fit them in your Toyota? If you can fit them in your Toyota with plastic bags, you could fit them in your Toyota with reuseables.


That said, I reuse my plastic bags for scooping cat litter and cleaning up dog doo doo in the back yard. I never throw any plastic bags away. So banning them would be a PITA for me also, but you know what, I still think they should be banned. Once they are gone, we, lazy, selfish, Americans will adapt and it won't be a big deal at all.
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post #32 of 38
2/23/10 at 4:54am
It's very refreshing to read all the people here who are finding creative ways to get their groceries home without using plastic bags!

Living in NYC, I don't have a car, and walk to the grocery store. I always carry two of my re-usable bags, in case I stop at a store on the way home from wherever I am. I also have one of those "granny carts" (love that term), and when I do a big shopping trip, I just bring tote bags and manage fine.

I can see the problem people who drive and make huge shopping trips might have, but I saw someone at Rainbow when I was home at Christmas. She had some big canvas bags (3, I think) that were specifically for groceries. These bags were big! She was very efficiently packing everything in these in the cart, and then wheeling the cart out to her car. I had never seen big bags like this! I asked her where she got them and I think she said L. L. Bean. They're specifically for large grocery trips! (Maybe it wasn't L.L. Bean....but it was some online catalogue.)

I have nothing against taxing or charging for plastic bags. Anything to lessen the use of them.
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post #33 of 38
2/23/10 at 10:57am
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Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946 View Post
Americans are already taxed to death. I am not in favor of tax on plastic bags. Just outlaw them and go back to paper bags. Honestly the things our lawmakers can sit around and think of. They are pencil pushers.
The use of paper bags come with a price on our environment too. I think the pencil pushers are right this time.
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post #34 of 38
2/23/10 at 12:18pm
Save the trees!!!
Use hemp!
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post #35 of 38
2/23/10 at 2:38pm
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Save the trees!!!
Use hemp!
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post #36 of 38
2/24/10 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by Russian Blue View Post
They banned plastic bags in Toronto, Ontario at the end of last year. Many people made a fuss at the beginning but adapted. If a city with 3 million people can make the change, so can most.

And for bulk shoppers, you just purchase the plastic crates, or reusable bags or just use the cardboard boxes that stores get produce in. When there's a will there's a way.

As others have said, it's easy to keep cloth bags in the car. At our main supermarkets, they sell both cloth bags and plastic crates to carry your groceries in and transfer to your car.

If you don't have a bag with you, then you are charged 5 cents per bag.

People don't like change. When they first brought out recycling, people didn't want to do it, but they did it. Then, when composting came out the same reaction and now organic recycling. Toronto now has blue bin and grey bin recycling, organic recycling and bi-weekly garbage pick up.

The recent change from plastic to reusable bags was the easiest transition.
I really never got what the big deal was, we have reuseables in the car so we always have them when shopping or use boxes which the cats then get as a toy. They hold more than regular bags and whether we buy a month of groceries or a week - we still use them, its no different than having 2 or 10 plastic bags. Most stores have the reusables for $0.50-$1 and some still give a discount when you use them, although you are saving the 5c fee

If only they had organic recycling in my area

As for scooping, we use the bags the litter came in and keep it inside a tote for a few days of scooping
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post #37 of 38
2/24/10 at 1:31pm
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If only they had organic recycling in my area
Food scraps? You can do that yourself - even if you have an apartment. If done correctly, one can do vermicomposting inside in a storage container no larger than what most of us use for litter boxes. Of course, you still have to figure out what to do with meat and bone scraps.


We don't have any sort of recycling in my town for regular residents. Large businesses will send out their cardboard and private scrap collectors will buy scrap metal to sell - that's it.
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post #38 of 38
2/24/10 at 2:43pm
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Save the trees!!!
Use hemp!
That's what George Washington would have done.
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