Posted on 09/01/2022 7:23:04 AM PDT by grundle
Nicole Kramaritsch of Roxbury, New Jersey, has 46 bags just sitting in her garage. Brian Otto has 101 of them, so many that he’s considering sewing them into blackout curtains for his baby’s bedroom. (So far, that idea has gone nowhere.) Lili Mannuzza in Whippany has 74.
“I don’t know what to do with all these bags,” she said.
The mountains of bags are an unintended consequence of New Jersey’s strict new bag ban in supermarkets. It went into effect in May and prohibits not only plastic bags but paper bags as well. The well-intentioned law seeks to cut down on waste and single-use plastics, but for many people who rely on grocery delivery and curbside pickup services their orders now come in heavy-duty reusable shopping bags — lots and lots of them, week after week.
While nearly a dozen states nationwide have implemented restrictions on single-use plastic bags, New Jersey is the only one to ban paper bags because of their environmental impact. The law also bans polystyrene foam food containers and cups, and restricts restaurants from handing out plastic straws unless they’re requested.
Compared to single-use plastics, the more durable reusable bags are better for the environment only if they are actually reused. According to Shelie Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, a typical reusable bag, manufactured from polypropylene, must be used at least 10 times to account for the additional energy and material required to make it. For cotton totes, that number is much higher.
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And at the height of the pandemic paranoia BYOB (bring your own bags) was forbidden by many retailers.
Someone’s brother is in the reusable bag business.
Because our state is run by idiots.
Give them to all the people moving out of the state.
ya see postings for free moving boxes all the time.
I made a point at my Safeway to get two orange bags and the rest black bags. My orange bags are for meat products and the black is for every thing else
And these “reusable” bags....
They are sterilized after every use, correct?
Nobody would reuse the same “reusable” bag to transport food and have any residue from previous trips that may actually contaminate the new/ good food, right?
How much energy does it take and what is the process to completely sterilize these bags to be safe for reuse?
We sure learned that the population is easily malleable to the dictates of the authoritarians in the past two years. Quite scary.
Maybe stitch them together for a hot air balloon to escape from New Jersey like a couple of families did to escape from East Germany.
Just because they are supposedly reusable doesn't mean to have to save them.
Let me guess, the source of the bag ban is climate change. That’s what happens when following the rantings of a retarded and abused Swedish teenager who played hooky instead of learning real science. People in New Jersey look up to retards because they are intellectually inferior to retards. Short electric buses for New Jersey!
OK, so bring the cart to the car, put stuff in bags in the car.
I don’t worry about “sterilizing”. I take along a couple of plastic bags (single use) that were used for cans, or personal products, coffee, etc. .... not previously used for meat/dairy/frozen foods. If the store won’t put my meat, etc. in a new single use bag (to then put in my reusable bag), I have my own single use bags to protect the reusable. It’s not a big deal (for me) & I have had zero issues with illness due to ‘contamination’. People need to just use common sense, which sadly, isn’t so common any more.
I live in PA and used to pick up certain foods on my lunchbreak while I was working in NJ. Now I don’t because it’s the dumbest law and very inconvenient.
I got into it with a store checkout idiot-— I told her I’m not from around here and don’t have a bag for these 12 items. She replied “we’re saving the environment”. I then asked “point out a single item in the store not wrapped in plastic or in a cardboard/plastic box”. She couldn’t-—so I told her she can put all this stuff back then walked out.
If she wasn’t a stupid leftist I wouldn’t have given her a hard time....but she was...so there’s that.
Well you're not living up to the semi-fascist moniker, you should have put her in jail.
I was using the plastic bags in the veggie/fruit dept to put all my stuff in....some people laughed and some “not so much”.
Ask them to point out any item in the store that’s not packaged in plastic. They can’t...other than fruit/veggies but they provide plastic bags for those.
“The well-intentioned law”
Another state goes to Hell
Our stores just give out NEW, unused bags, for all grocery items bought, each time we shop.
Some use paper, some use plastic.
All new.
Then, they typically have a recycling bin located at the store exit, if you’re into that sort of thing, so you can bring their (or, other store’s) bags back.
We shop in BJ’s and Walmart and forgot the pile of bags in the closet so we just stack everything in the back seat of the truck....
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