You can utilize the wheel barrel that you used to carry the hyper inflated currency for your purchases.
Posted on 02/12/2024 4:38:37 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III
You can utilize the wheel barrel that you used to carry the hyper inflated currency for your purchases.
The $0.10/bag charge doesn't change behavior. People still go grocery shopping and use as many bags as they need just like they used to do.
Nobody reuses them because people don't really carry around extra bags with them.
The new bags are literally five times as thick as the old plastic grocery bags. If you've never seen one, try to imagine the thick, high quality plastic bags you'd get from a high-end retailer or the duty-free shops at the airport. That's what a dime gets you at Vons or Walmart in California.
And they are ever trying to disarm us.
And larger ones.
When at our cottage, we can take the trash out every couple days to the dumpster instead of letting it sit and rot inside. Using the grocery store bags is using FAR less plastic that way.
Thanks, you beat me to it.
Remember when they started plastic bags? It was because all the paper bags were killing trees. So they made us feel guilty about that. And now the plastic bags are worse.
They backfired because they make the plastic bags much thicker, supposedly to be re-used over and over by the customer. However, most aren’t reused, and so more plastic goes into the environment. In addition, because they are thicker they degrade/dissolve even more slowly.
...they don’t really harm the environment.
Plus they sequester a lot of carbon. A mole of polyethylene is 75% Carbon safely tucked away forever in a landfill or by the side of the road.
I have so maby of the plastic grocery bags in my car and at home.. its become a joke. but the stores offer paper bags as well
One word . . .
GEE Just like Murphy’s in New Jerksy. What will they think up next? NO MORE BAGS PEASANTS. USE YOUR POCKETS.
“Eventually your shopping trips will be limited to what you can carry in your arms.”
Maybe we should all take our suitcases to the store; they have wheels on them to make them easier to move around . . .
lol never thought about that. genius!
They are a staple here-trash can liners, carrying stuff around like small tools I’m using, carrying/throwing away trash like paper, etc, for carrying out veggie and fruit scraps I put out for the wildlife, and every day I use a couple of them when cleaning out the cats’ litter boxes. Not single use at all...
“Iron Eyes” Cody.
Ugh! Or as they say in Italian, “Uffa!”
Ugh! or as they say in Italian, “Uffa!”
A couple of years and they shred into little pieces, then ... nothing. The desert sun and air degrades plastic bags to nothing.
Petroleum based plastics are high energy molecules, like wood. It gradually oxidizes. It does it much faster in the desert at high temperatures...
Thanks.
I'm here in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. My next-door neighbor burns everything in his fireplace. I often smell plastics being burned. He'll collect pressure-treated exterior wood and burn it (laden with toxic chemicals). He even burns on so-called no-burn days (smog control rules). He gets a pass due to a loophole where he says the fireplace is his only source of heat because his furnace is broken. Right, "broken" for 40 years. Laws are broken everywhere.
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