Green grocery bags can carry countless bacteria

KSL 5 News ^ | November 22nd, 2010 | Nadine Wimmer

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If reusable grocery bags carry bacteria, they should just create throw-away plastic liners for them. Problem solved!!!!

[PIF]

Just stop eating and you won't need any grocery bags. Your very existence is a burden on the environment, and you should be ashamed of yourself for even being alive.

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Sounds like recruiting material for the Human Extinction Movement...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You did detect the sarcasm, right?

:)

[freebird5850]

“Throw away plastic liners will work.....”

Plastic liners for Green Grocery bags...BRILLIANT! /s

[T Minus Four]

Hmmmmm, would washing these bags regularly help?

What? Waste water and pump phosphates into the ground water supply? Never! Just suck it up :-)

[wbill]

If people want to use them fine. But I refuse to believe you are saving the planet with these bags.

I work near a college. The grocery store near work is frequented by artsy-fartsy types. I rarely go there anymore, and it's mostly due to the time these fools waste frigging around with their 3@%#%^%@%^ reusable bags.

They get their stuff up to the checkout, fair enough. Then they need to unpack and open up the bags (I wouldn't think that it would be a production, but it always seems to be). On several occasions, they've loudly pointed out that they're using "environmentally friendly" bags, and on one occsion one girl asked my why I didn't. I told her it was none of her business. By the time they're done messing around, and smugly patting themselves on the back, I could have checked out three times and been gone.

I know, it sounds like something out of a movie, but there it is.

And for what it's worth, I use the plastic grocery store bags for darn near everything. Trashcan liners are #1, but we use them for hauling stuff around, wrapping stuff up, easy cleanup of messy projects ... roughly what you'd use a bag for. I like them because they're smaller and easier to manage than a trashbag, and they're not as slippery.

But what do I know, I guess it's the difference between someone who actually reuses and recycles because it makes sense, and someone who wants everyone to know and recognize how environmentally conscious they are.

[Hacksaw]

I like the small plastic bags because I use them to clean up my dog’s poop on our walks. The neighbors appreciate it too, I am sure.

[Hacksaw]

The answer to what to do with plastic bags is to have a couple of cats!

Yep. Or a dog.

[PIF]

You did detect the sarcasm, right?

:)

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Eh? :)

[Savage Beast]

I forget to take my grocery bags into the grocery store too. I've been carrying them around in my car for a while. The day before yesterday was the first time I remembered to take one in. I filled it up. Then I read this article. Today, I opted for the disposable bags.

I plastic-bag the garbage too. I hate yukky garbage cans--the obsessive-compulsive personality in action.

[trisham]

No one gets upset about the bacteria in their yogurt...

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Is it E. coli bacteria?

[exDemMom]

Apparently, the bacteria really started to stink.

Gallardo said it was so bad, the samples made his entire lab smell like a hamster’s cage.

It happens to be a characteristic of microorganisms (not just bacteria) that they stink in culture. I used to grow Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bread and beer yeast) for experiments; the plates smelled a lot like bread at first, but after 3 or 4 weeks, they really stank. Stinky does not mean pathogenic.