Posted on 03/31/2020 6:57:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I grew up, and for most of my life after that, at a grocery store, the clerk would ring up my groceries and put them in a useful paper or plastic bag emblazoned with the store’s motto. I’d take the bag home and use it again. If it was paper, I used it for book covers, storing annual tax-relevant documents, wrapping packages destined for UPS, and holding recycling. If it was plastic, I used it for bathroom garbage bags, packing school lunches, padding breakables for shipping, etc.
All that changed when California decided to "ban the bag." The reason given was that paper and plastic bags destroyed the environment. Paper bags were guilty because they killed trees. Plastic bags were guilty because they polluted waterways.
It didn’t matter that the trees came from carefully replenished trees, rather than from virgin forests. Nor did it matter that the bags polluting waterways didn’t come from America, they came from Asia and Africa. Facts didn’t matter. Gaia was hurting, and we had to suffer.
One of the most irritating things about the ban was that, while stores could still provide bags, consumers had to pay a dime per bag if they wanted them. In other words, consumers were suddenly being taxed for a harmless product they once received for free. At the same time, the bags we were now forced to pay for also became more fragile and, therefore, were harder to put to secondary uses. They usually ripped by the time they entered the house.
The real problem, though, was that the reusable bags people that replaced plastic and paper were disease vectors – something that all the politicians banning them knew or should have known. San Francisco (of course) was the American city that led the way
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We should have a National Burn The Bag Day!
Get rid of those nasty things.
We were told the same the other day. The clerk said we could bag our own groceries if we wanted to use the reusable bags, or they would bag them in the store bags. I understood that they were letting people know that the reusable bags were not healthy, and I told them to use the store bags. And I support their stand completely.
I remember doing that up to middle school.
Early 80s.
Haha. Yep. They could be folded to fit perfectly. The paper bags now tear very easily, do not think they would do the job well.
It’s nice to see so many vaunted liberal shibboleths being tossed into the dust bin of history.
Though I dont wish the virus on anybody...it has had a meritorious effect on braindead liberals......and liberalism.
Popcorn too, kettle cooked always beats microwave.
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.... The Oceans, Seas, and Lakes will be full of rubber Nitrile Gloves before you know it!
remember. you must cut down the seam.
A much better title for America would be: “Democrats see their world crumble forever..”
I have a big brown paper bag source for the sole purpose of cooking hams in them. Learned that from my granny, and it works like a charm
My local grocery store had a dedicated narrow opening trash container for recycling plastic bags.
Now they go into a funk if you get near the store with any type of bag from home.
And the other shoppers are even more paranoid.
Social distancing has made people antisocial.
There’s no better way to coat chicken pieces for frying than to shake them in a paper bag.
“These germ-laden bags of death are going to be okey-dokey in a few months?”
What about library books? What about our germ-laden homes? What about the handles on gas pumps? What about railings? How about single-use toilet seats? What about the wind? Someone could sneeze a mile away and I get their germs.
As I said before, contact with germs is the way we become immune to them.
Me too. It was assignment first wk of school.
Yes. And paranoid. My Uber-Leftist SIL is losing it. She rants with worry about my niece, who works in a grocery store. How the grocery store isn’t protecting their workers, etc. I pointed out that even the hospitals don’t have enough masks. Turns out SHE HAS SOME MASKS and her daughter wouldn’t take one to wear at work. Then I figured out my SILs hidden complaint. What she really wanted was for my niece to be able to stay at home and still get paid. As essential employees, grocery workers have to work to get paid. Typical Lib.
As an aside comment.....did anybody notice that Whole Foods employees are supposed to stage a sick-in today? Apparently Amazon doesn’t protect their workers either. Leftists really do want to burn down the country.
“Those grocery store plastic bags also come in handy when its time to clean the cat litter box (be certain to check first if the bag has a hole in the bottom!)”
That’s us! With five indoor cats, grocery store plastic bags are important.
In nyc, people use public transportation. You cant carry stuff in your arms. People put whatever they carry in the floor by their feet. Even in suburbs I put some bags in floor of my car, esp when trunk in full. GERMS.Then those same bags go on cash register counter. Who washes them?
Let's not forget this.
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