Shoot me - I live in a university town, take my own bags to the store (they’re thinking about taxing or putting a fee on the plastic bags), and am vegan.
I read the article and some things don’t make sense:
1. There appears to be contaminants in moist cloth bags, ok, but why are they moist? Veggies that might be wet from the sprayer are put in little plastic bags anyway (are they going to do away with those?), so there’s nothing wet in the bags.
2. The bags have fecal matter - wtf? The article mentioned diapers - who the heck is putting dirty diapers in a bag they use for food?
3. Wrap meat so there is no contamination. No problem for me, don’t eat meat. Even when I did, of course you wrap meat; it can leak.
I wonder if the dire warnings are in response to uses that aren’t that prevalent for people who use their bags just for grocery shopping?
Just to keep my FReep cred, I use and reuse plastic bags. I don’t want to make others use cloth bags. I don’t pay for my bags, but have a collection of freebies from conferences and events around town where they gave away bags. I used the tax on plastic debate in one of my classes and had to ‘help’ students understand the concept that freedom extends to which freakin’ bag you use for shopping. I hate the idea that libs decided a few years ago we were all supposed to use paper, and then it was plastic, and now we’re supposed to tote our own damn cloth bags to the store.
I keep the cloth bags in the car and admit to liking that there is no longer a mountain of plastic bags in the pantry waiting to be used or taken to the store for recycling, which I always forgot to do. I hope that using cloth bags doesn’t mean I have to turn in my official glow-in-the-dark FR ID card.
“Shoot me - I live in a university town, take my own bags to the store (they’re thinking about taxing or putting a fee on the plastic bags), and am vegan.”
IBTZ?
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