Say good bye to the plastic bag!

[MAJOR METAL]

So far I have lived in 2 cities in Northern California that have banned plastic bags when you go to purchase goods. Take away food however in San Francisco is allowed to offer you the purchase of a plastic bag when you pick up your order. Are plastic bags becoming extinct where you live?

 

[Thomas Kievit]

Yes they do I live in the Netherlands and big companies (mostly those who sell food, clothings and other stuff) decided to stopp selling plastic bags. Very good idea!

 

[Gorn]

Paper bags are cool as long as they have handles. The ones without them are annoying.

 

[Innocuous]

We have paper and plastic. A lot of stores sell a cloth bag with handles that are reusable.

 

[bachlover]

I use reuseable cloth bags that are made from recycled materials. One grocery chain gives a credit of a couple cents for using these. There's one chain drugstore that I know of here that charges for their plastic bags, other than that, no restrictions.

 

[skychief]

Yes. Plastic bags are soon to be banned in my area.

Im hoarding them... Got a huge bale of plastic bags in the garage.

When the ban is enacted, im gonna sell the bags to shoppers in front of the grocery store.

 

[MJ5150]

The county I lived in banned them July 1st of this year. We had already switched to reusable bags long before then. It's a bummer these kinds of things have to be laws.

-Mike

 

[Stewie26]

Yes. Plastic bags are soon to be banned in my area.

Im hoarding them... Got a huge bale of plastic bags in the garage.

When the ban is enacted, im gonna sell the bags to shoppers in front of the grocery store.

We save all our plastic bags for walking the dog. Paper bags are not very effective for scooping up dog poop. Maybe I will have to buy some from you when they are banned.

 

[slobake]

Some local business give out cloth bags with their names on them. Harwares stores, real estates agents, you name at. Free advertising a guess. I always keep some in my truck. The trick is not to forget them when I go into a store. It costs 10 cents for a paper bag here. If I have to buy one I keep it and re-use it.

 

[skychief]

We save all our plastic bags for walking the dog. Paper bags are not very effective for scooping up dog poop. Maybe I will have to buy some from you when they are banned.

Seriuosly... I do have a rather impressive collection of plastic bags in the garage, but my real intentions for them is for cleaning the litter box.

 

[Stewie26]

Some local business give out cloth bags with their names on them. Harwares stores, real estates agents, you name at. Free advertising a guess. I always keep some in my truck. The trick is not to forget them when I go into a store. It costs 10 cents for a paper bag here. If I have to buy one I keep it and re-use it.

There have been a few stories on the news how unsanitary reusable cloth-canvas bags are for carrying food. If you are carrying meat and some juice leaks out into the bag it can contaminate other foods later. They did a few lab test and the results were not good. Just another example of unattended consequences that our so called do gooder politicians trust upon us.

 

[avvie]

They've been banned here for a few years. Nobody noticed. We love it. Oahu is banning them next year, Big Island is a couple years into it.
Maui had VERY good reason to do it: the trade winds blow right across the landfill and send plastic bags everywhere and into the south shores where turtles think they're jellyfish and try to eat them.

As for the aforementioned "unattended" consequences: people have a responsibility to be responsible for their bags. What, we need a law to tell people not to spill meat in their bags now?
Responsibility: not just for breakfast any more.

 

[sparkyfender2]

I love it when people that assume they know it all want to eliminate all choice and control my every move.

 

[TolerancEJ]

They're not banned in Vancouver, but many stores charge 0.05 per bag as a deterrent and suggest that people bring reusable bags.

Just across the border, Bellingham Washington has a plastic bag ban.

My wife and I are generally unaffected because we just keep reusable bags in our vehicle at all times.

 

[slobake]

There have been a few stories on the news how unsanitary reusable cloth-canvas bags are for carrying food. If you are carrying meat and some juice leaks out into the bag it can contaminate other foods later. They did a few lab test and the results were not good. Just another example of unattended consequences that our so called do gooder politicians trust upon us.

That is a good point and we do need to pay attention to that. We have a large bag lined with plastic that we can put blue ice in. We use that one for meat and fish. We also turn it inside out and wash it occasionally
On a similar note I also put my household sponge in the microwave I hope that kills the nasty little critters that can live there. And yes wise guy I do turn on the microwave when the sponge is in there.

 

[avvie]

I love it when people that assume they know it all want to eliminate all choice and control my every move.

Some choices are stupid. Plastic bags is one of them. Was indefensible when they appeared and indefensible now. Plenty of Plastics Council commercials appeared on the radio to soften minds at the time.
The results are in: we cannot continue a disposable society. And I'm pretty sure that this isn't your every move.
I appreciate the libertarian viewpoint but we dont live in a vacuum and its not all about self all the time.

 

[Jazz Ad]

Supermarkets don't give bags around here. You bring your own stuff to carry whatever you bought. Cheaper, better for environment, win-win.
Seriously, you can use plastic to built computers, toys, rockets, cars, amps and instruments, why would you waste such a fantastic ressource into bags?

 

[slobake]

Supermarkets don't give bags around here. You bring your own stuff to carry whatever you bought. Cheaper, better for environment, win-win.
Seriously, you can use plastic to built computers, toys, rockets, cars, amps and instruments, why would you waste such a fantastic ressource into bags?

Yes, if we use all our plastic to make bags what are going to make Twinkies out of?

 

[avvie]

Plastic as a material resource isnt going away, and our oil-centric geopolitical scenarios are probably more about that than about transporatation gasoline. The frivolous proliferation of it has gotten out of control though...we really don't need thick plastic boxing on every .75 item hanging on a J-card. Hard to open, impossible to eliminate, and an unnecessary packaging expense pandering to fear-based marketing schemes (disease, shoplifting, germophobia, child safety, etc.).

What I love is kitchen shears being marketed in that packaging. I need the shears to cut it open. Maybe Alanis Morrisette could srite a song about that...

 

[Gorn]