There's a proposal for a grocery bag tax. I know in parts of Europe they don't offer you free bags and you have to pay the equivalent 25cents or 50cents if you don't have your marche bag handy. Thoughts?
My wife makes some very nice grocery bags with liners... and we take them whenever we shop. They are washable as well.
Neither. We have about 10 of those recycled canvas type bags. 2 from the Blazers, as a season ticket holder, so no need to waste the paper or plastic. I'm all for a place banning or charging for the plastic bags. Or taxing, or whatever.
We actually use paper and plastic bags at home for a bunch of different things. I wouldn't call them being wasted.
Man that's not bad. I remember Safeway used to give you .25cents when you returned a shopping cart on this rail they setup in the parking lots. Of course people used to take advantage of the free money and Safeway got rid of the system.
Sorry, meant no reason to waste them on me, since I have lots of the reusable bags. I tend to reuse the bags as well, when we get them, but that plastic is eventually ending up in the trash, and eventually sitting somewhere for a LONG time.
I like plastic because I can use them as small garbage bags afterwards. If a store started charging me for bags, I'd stop shopping there.
They should start phasing out all plastic and paper bags, and just use canvas. We also have re-usable bags for produce. There are great portions of the ocean that are totally littered with bits of plastic, it's disgusting. Waste all of that energy to carry some groceries home one time. If people like their plastic bags so much, or can't afford to spend a few bucks on a canvas one(which pays for itself, and more in time), why don't they just re-use their plastic bags? If they want to really piss off the oil tycoons, they should legalize Hemp, and make hemp bags.
uhh, maybe because we don't like bringing back bags with us to the market? some people just drop in and buy stuff.
"You don't like it", well, we wouldn't want you to be burdened with that inconvenience. Many people don't want to bother having to put things in the recycling bin, it's much easier to just throw everything in the dumpster, then out of sight, out of mind right?
