If you happen to live in Oregon and are going to the store today you will have to bring your own bags or buy paper bags.
I've never used plastic bags. I've always asked for paper. So far no one has charged me for a paper bag, even yesterday.
California had this for about 2 years now. After the initial getting used to it phase - it is not a real issue.
Not sure all stores will charge you for paper? But you will be charged in some way. Thing is if you are charged? You will be charged if you use them or not right? I'm good with no more plastic.
Yeah, it's been this way in Multnomah County so have been use to it for awhile but it always struck me funny when I would go down towards Clackamas Town Center and stores were still using plastic.
Or just make several trips to the car and back as I do, getting exercise while negating the need for bags at all. Lazy left is never willing to make the physical effort to enact true positive change.
Plastic anything is crap, and bags are the least polluting of the products. Phones, computers, TV's, cars, clothes, bottles, DVDs, toys...
Very misinformed. Phones Computers and TV's are durable and can be recycled or reused. We all recycle Bottles. DVD's are already being replaced by electronic storage. But Plastic bags? https://www.biologicaldiversity.org...ability/sustainability/plastic_bag_facts.html
Ill never carry my own bags into a store! My wife will though. Ill have them deliver before I become a bag man! lol
I guess my new product line will be super-masculine reusable grocery bags. They'll be leather, riveted at the corners, with maybe a mudflap girl on them? Watch for me on Shark Tank next season! barfo
I’m now nostalgically remembering the big push to use plastic bags instead of paper, to save the trees. I guess the geniuses changed their minds again. In all seriousness though plastic bags are a nuisance. I’ve got like 500 of them under my kitchen sink right now that may never get used. And they make up a good percentage of the litter you see outside. Didn’t they find a Walmart bag at the bottom of Mariana’s Trench or something crazy like that? If the dipshit politicians actually gave a fuck (they don’t) then they would fund an effort to give away those reusable cloth bags, they work just fine. We keep them in our cars and try to use them as much as we can.
Nah, Safeway, Fred Meyers, pretty much all the grocery stores have savings cards that track your purchases. They could easily make it so every $100 you spend you get a free cloth bag with their store name stamped on the side of it.
It's been this way in Seattle for quite a while. You easily get used to it and buy some cloth bags and bring them. Or buy paper bags if you forget. It's not that big of a deal.
If you're going the reusable bag route make sure that you get bags that can be washed and make sure you wash them regularly.
