Say good bye to the plastic bag!

[lokikallas]

Without plastic bags to line our landfills, what with slow the toxins from leaching into the ground water?

 

[Milk]

It's 5 cents for a plastic bag in the majority of shops here. They should raise it to a quarter and see how fast it takes for people to stop using them entirely.

I wouldn't be surprised that we ditch them soon here since we're a pretty progressive province.

95% of the time I have a reusable bag and have done this for years but if i forget or i didn't plan to buy anything and i need a plastic bag to carry the purchases home, i either put it in the recycling when i'm done with it OR use it as a garbage bag.

 

[Alkali Ike]

Eugene banned plastic bags a while ago, and requires that most retailers charge 5 cents for a paper bag. I really hate nanny-state rules but I have to admit my use of bags when shopping has dropped substantially. If I can carry the item(s) in my hands or pockets, no bag needed. I used to always take a plastic bag.

 

[zontar]

If you use cloth bags, make sure to put them through the laundry every now & then--they tend to pick up germs & stuff.

 

[placedesjardins]

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?

No.
There's actually a shortage of plastic 6-pack can holders on the ocean shore. Seagulls have been living footloose and fancy free. I'm starting a campaign to reverse that.

 

[Mosfed]

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.

So how much silver will a bag cost?

 

[SwitchGear]

I reuse plastic grocery bags as garbage bags in small bins in my bathrooms. I reuse paper grocery bags for paper-cardboard recyclables.

Just sayin'

 

[skychief]

So how much silver will a bag cost?

1 ounce silver gets you 255 bags. Or 0.113 grams per bag.

 

[fhm555]

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

So doing something good for the many at the inconvenience of the few is a bad thing? Not too selfish are we? Hate to break it to you, but there was a time in America where most people actually thought sacrifice for the greater good was a noble thing. Now we have a handful of extremists who've decided that selfish is good so long as it serves the needs of a few and the needs of the many be damned, and are preaching that mantra from the cheap (read mostly obsolete) media outlets for the sole purpose of whipping the truly selfish into a lather enough to support their continued spew of hate and lies does not change the fact that by and large, most American's are still of a mind that individual sacrifice for the greater good is in fact a noble thing and one of the defining characteristics of this most unique of nations.

The people telling you otherwise are nothing more than the modern equivalent of the self serving snake oil hucksters of old. The type who had no problem dumping some arsenic and a few dead rodents (for color) into a bucket of water to make a "miracle elixir" that cured everything from gout to the vapors and pushing this nasty crap on the gullible using the power of persuasion to make their worthless poison not just real, but necessary.

They don't give a flip what happens to you as long as they get some of your money and they will say ANYTHING if they think it will get he job done.

 

[Metalbasspro]

Wish they would get rid of them here. I do use them as trash can liners but there are far too many given out.

 

[sissy kathy]

Plastic as a material resource isnt(sic) going away, and our oil-centric geopolitical scenarios are probably more about that than about transporatation(sic) 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(sic) could srite(sic) a song about that...

Sometimes not always, I open the product in the store and leave the detris with the cashier.

 

[Phalex]

My wife has a million faux cloth non woven material type bags in her car. I used to have a few in my truck too, but apparently they are attracted to each other.

We still do paper or plastic here, though the reusable ones are pretty popular.

Those plastic T-shirt bags blow all over the place until they end up in a waterway. I hope they do phase them out, and soon.

Good riddance I say.

 

[placedesjardins]

Hmm, no one said good bye.

 

[crucislancer]

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?

Yup, I live in Rohnert Park, and it looks like the plastic bags are gone, though Grocery Outlet is selling large, reusable plastic bags for 16 cents each, not sure what the difference is besides size and thickness. Paper bags are 10 cents each. I bought 5 of the large plastic ones and I keep them in my trunk so I don't forget them. I was talking with a woman who lives in San Rafael, and she said that the same is happening there.

 

[SuperK]

Here in San Jose plastic bags have been banned for a few years. Santa Clara hasn't banned them. There is a mall that straddles Santa Clara and San Jose. Depending on which end of the mall you shop on, you may get a plastic bag....or not.

 

[DwaynieAD]

just what TB needed, another thread for lording superiority over others.

 

[FilterFunk]

I reuse plastic grocery bags as garbage bags in small bins in my bathrooms. I reuse paper grocery bags for paper-cardboard recyclables.

Just sayin'

Yep. I've never had a paper or plastic bag that I didn't reuse or recycle.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

So doing something good for the many at the inconvenience of the few is a bad thing? Not too selfish are we? Hate to break it to you, but there was a time in America where most people actually thought sacrifice for the greater good was a noble thing. Now we have a handful of extremists who've decided that selfish is good so long as it serves the needs of a few and the needs of the many be damned, and are preaching that mantra from the cheap (read mostly obsolete) media outlets for the sole purpose of whipping the truly selfish into a lather enough to support their continued spew of hate and lies does not change the fact that by and large, most American's are still of a mind that individual sacrifice for the greater good is in fact a noble thing and one of the defining characteristics of this most unique of nations.

The people telling you otherwise are nothing more than the modern equivalent of the self serving snake oil hucksters of old. The type who had no problem dumping some arsenic and a few dead rodents (for color) into a bucket of water to make a "miracle elixir" that cured everything from gout to the vapors and pushing this nasty crap on the gullible using the power of persuasion to make their worthless poison not just real, but necessary.

They don't give a flip what happens to you as long as they get some of your money and they will say ANYTHING if they think it will get he job done.

So when was this beautify period you speak of? The U.S. has always held and was even founded on the idea that the indvidivual was supreme. It is a newer, socialist promoted idea that the society is more important than an individual.
Here are a couple of quotes for you:
Society's needs come before the individual's needs - Aldoph Hitler
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society - Hillary Clinton
As to the snake oil hustlers, we agree.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

Plastic was promoted by the greenies because we were cutting down all these beautiful trees and deforesting the country to create paper bags. They had plenty of help from people who sell oil and make plastic things. Here are some of the things they did not consider or ignored because it didn't fit their agenda:
The trees used for paper pulp are farmed, fast growing junk trees good for little else.
There are more trees in the U.S. now that when the white man got here.
Paper is renewable, Plastic is not.
Pater is biodegradable, Plastic is not. This is why turtles and other creatures are being killed by plastic bags.

So now we have seen the dead turtles and the fences covered with wind blown platic bags and realized it was a bad idea. But, rather than revert to paper, the powers that be have decided to turn bagging their product from a business expense into a profit center.

See what happens when Dumb and Dumber get elected to public office?

I live in Fort Worth, Texas, where there are no bans, so when I go to the grocery store, I expect to have a way to get the groceries home. I recently took my RV to Austin where they recently started the plastic ban that I didn't know about. The only option they offered were reuseable bags with there logo in 6" letters @ 25 cents each. I asked if they had paper and the clerk got really snippy with me. So I left $175 worth of groceries on the counter and walked.

 

[Goatrope]

So how much silver will a bag cost?

So how much ammo will a bag cost?