Posted on 09/13/2022 9:32:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Since May, residents in New Jersey have become overwhelmed with reusable sacks due to state law prohibiting grocery stores from using single-use paper or plastic bags, NJ.com reported Tuesday.
Shoppers are allowed to use their own bags or purchase reusable ones, however, in many grocery stores, Instacart shoppers and employees put groceries in fresh reusable bags each time someone places an order.
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Easy now....
Butt, butt, butt............the trees!
Agreed, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex are beautiful.....
Did they not know that paper bags are:
a) compostable and,
b) they literally grow on trees.
(We can, and do always plant more trees).
Ain’t greenies wonderful…they always cause unintended consequences that are much worse…
The change from paper to plastic bags destroyed most third world beaches. I spent three years in Sierra Leone watching a massive tidal wave of plastic going out from their rivers into the ocean, killing or destroying their fishing grounds.
The change from paper to plastic enriched some businesses but did horrible things to the environment. And trees grow back, and capture carbon while alive.
So these aren’t being issued as barf bags when people consider the abominable politicians in NJ and NY? First thought when I saw the headline.
From a decade ago:
https://www.wtvr.com/2012/10/31/the-surprise-inside-reusuable-bags-can-harbor-fecal-bacteria-study-finds
You know who doesn't use clean single-use plastic bags for handling food? Residents in Third World countries and the filthy Democrats who aspire to be like them and also bring everyone else down to that level.
More of the left butt cheek of the nation. Connecticut is the right one. You can figure out the rest of my anatomy lesson.
I love the plastic bags for disposing of cat litter.
There’s nothing more important than solving the problem of shopping bags. America is filled with morons. The entire recycling thing is a boondoggle and does zero for the environment. People waste their time and money on senseless issues. That time and money could be spent on productive and truly live improving things.
Paper bags from supermarkets were an issue.
One guy, when growing up in the Garden State? His house had a closet filled to the top with them.
Landfill volume attributed to these bags was tremendous. Atrocious.
Did the brown paper bags decompose after being buried by tons of other garbage, and thereby shielded from all sunlight, in a zero oxygen, for decades?
Not one bit. These bags could have ended up being our most enduring archaeological legacy. Up there with the Egyptian pyramids.
The switch to single use plastic bags was done in part to alleviate this notoriously huge volume of landfill usage.
Surprisingly strong, and each such plastic single-user bag representing only a tiny fraction of the paper bag it was intended to replace, the plan actually worked.
If NJ goes back to paper bags, it will be “Back to the Future” all over again.
Plastic bags are back in CA. But you need to pay for them. That’s all the environmental movement really amounts to - getting ordinary working people to pay more for everything.
will never look at Long Island the same way again
you had to go there didn’t you
LOL
We had to visit western NYS last week and I was checking out of a Wegman’s store.
Clerk: “Do you want a bag?”
Me: “Of course I want a bag. Why wouldn’t I want a bag?”
Clerk: “They cost five cents each.”
Me (rolling eyes): “Ohhhhh kaaaay.”
Clerk loaded up a brown paper bag.
Me: “I live in a free state. It’s nice.”
Clerk: “They’re all free states.”
Me: “Nope. ‘Bye.”
I recall when paper bags were killing forests. Now they’re good?
When given the choice of “paper or plastic” I choose Kryptonite. I explain that Superman could be in the parking lot thinking that I owe him money. Naturally wicker, stainless steel, or titanium are also good choices
If it saves the big corporations money to get rid of plastic bags and it does what is the real reason we are doing this?
YMMV, but I find most such bags to be ridiculously thin and weak, maybe a mil or less. And if a tear starts, nothing keeps it from splitting all the way up the side and spilling open. I end up double- or triple-bagging.
Those reusable plastic bags are a serious danger to the environment. The old, thin ones were bad, but these are far far worse. And people are throwing their garbage out in them.
I have a large paper bag full of reusiable plastic bas, keep several in the car, and do, indeed, reuse them.
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