Reusable Grocery Bags Pose E. coli Risk

newsinferno ^ | June 25th, 2010

[hinckley buzzard]

It's wonderful to see you doing so much to conserve our precious resources. Instead of one thin plastic bag you use a fabric bag, which came from who knows where at the cost of how much energy to grow, refine, fabricate and transport; one or more paper bags, and sometimes a couple plastic bags as well. And all this despite the fact that the thin plastic bags are recyclable.

Hmm.

[wku man]

Yep...give me the most bio-nondegradable, non-organic, global warming inducing, made in banana republic shanty towns by oppressed Oompaloompas, who have been run out of their former rainforest homes after they were clear cut for cattle grazing, plastic bags possible.

I sleep better knowing I'm causing some hip, trendy CommieLib to toss and turn.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Nepeta]

I always line my reusable grocery bags with paper bags, and change the paper ones every other week.

Sounds like a good practice...but the downside of paper is that roaches adore the glue used in paper bags.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

ME TOO!!!

[La Lydia]

No, you don’t understand. I am consuming even more! I get the nasty, reusable, decorated, canvas-with-a-plastic-coating bags that the grocery stores sell. Then I line them with paper bags (trees!) Then I put everything in a plastic (petroleum derivative!) bag first, the recyclable ones you like so much. So, to sum up, I am consuming three times as much as I used to, bag-wise, BEFORE THEY BEGAN HECTORING ME about grocery bags. And I look virtuously green with my reusable bags as I slither out of the store. This is my revenge.

[La Lydia]

I keep them in the trunk of my car. But I don’t have and have never had any problems with roaches. That is what exterminator companies are for.

[Cyclone59]

I found a colapsable crate from Good Living. I use it at Costco and Shop and Save.
I do get plastic bags everyonce in a while, mainly because I need them for scoopin’ the poop the night before trash day. Two choc. labs sure do create a lot of poop! just sayin’

[dsrtsage]

Hippies pose E-Coli risks

[goat granny]

I have meat and frozen items put in plastic bag before going into my cloth bags. Haven’t had any leakage yet...

[sockmonkey]

Crikey, being a germaphobe, there's no way in h*ll, I'd ever have used those "go green" grocery totes. I'm the freak who makes the checker spray the conveyer with disinfectant before I set my groceries on it when I'm checking out. cross contamination from someone's leaking meat or poultry.

I do always offer to help her dry it with paper towels, though.

Also, even though I'm tempted to put things I don't want squashed in the "child seat" part of the cart, I don't because, who knows if a kid with a leaky diaper sat in there before unsuspecting shopper sets his loaf of bread, or carton of eggs in there..thereby transfering said baby poop to his fridge when he gets home.

[StopBigGovt]

LOL! What was Nordstrom’s marketing department and buyer of merchandise thinking?! :)

[La Lydia]

Scroll down to the bottom of this to see their grocery bag. It is quite fetching, but overpriced.
http://www.whiteapricot.com/newsletter/archive/issue_10.html

[StopBigGovt]

Agreed! The bags are quite fetching, but much too high a price. :)

[Travis T. OJustice]

Of course this will happen. I try and wash my reuseable in the washing machine regularly. Wears them out faster but is a necesity.

Reusable grocery bags, ESPECIALLY when washed regularly, are significanlty harder on the environment than the disposable plastic grocery bags. Enviro-commies won't ever tell you the truth, though.

[Travis T. OJustice]

It's wonderful to see you doing so much to conserve our precious resources. Instead of one thin plastic bag you use a fabric bag, which came from who knows where at the cost of how much energy to grow, refine, fabricate and transport; one or more paper bags, and sometimes a couple plastic bags as well. And all this despite the fact that the thin plastic bags are recyclable. Hmm.

Worth repeating. Bravo! BTW, the thin plastic ones are much easier on the environment than even the reusable bags alone.

[RinaseaofDs]

The second you throw those bad boys into the washing machine, the water and detergent use make those bags the most extravagantly un-green option there is for toting around your groceries.

Reusable grocery bags - brought to you by the people that brought you ethanol.

[JoeProBono]

[BlueLancer]

"Two choc. labs sure do create a lot of poop! just sayin’"

Heck, I've got four 10-lb cats and I swear that, daily, I scoop at least 40 pounds of poop out of the litter boxes.

It's really a wonder that there are any cats left ...