Plastic bag bans/regulation/charges
#1
Posted 26 August 2008 - 07:37 PM
Stores that use bags should be stopping the use of them and telling people they need to bring cloth bags for their purchase. Also, some of the check out staff should be educated on asking people if they need a bag and saying no to people who ask for a bag for a one or two item purchase.
#2
Posted 26 August 2008 - 08:03 PM
Also, some of the check out staff should be educated on asking people if they need a bag and saying no to people who ask for a bag for a one or two item purchase.
The first time I am told by ANY retailer that I can't have a bag for my purchase will be the last time I ever purchase anything from that establishment. In fact, I would very likely ask for my money back on the spot for whatever it was I had intended to buy. I am all for saving the planet, but telling customers they have to carry their one or two item purchase out in their hands is simply bad customer service.
As for bringing a bag with me, it is not always that simple. Since I do not own a car, and I rarely plan on doing a big grocery shop at one time, but rather pick up a few items when I am out, it would be very inconvenient to have to carry around a grocery bag (or bags) with me whenever I step outside my door. I find it quite laughable that people who drive big gas-guzzling SUVs and the like consider themselves good planetary citizens because they carry reusable bags with them. Besides I reuse all my plastic grocery bags for disposal of my non-recyclable garbage, so they aren't just tossed. Which acivity is leaving a larger carbon footprint; my reused plastic bags or their monster vehicle?
#3
Posted 26 August 2008 - 11:57 PM
#4
Posted 27 August 2008 - 01:02 AM
Besides I reuse all my plastic grocery bags for disposal of my non-recyclable garbage, so they aren't just tossed.
Your incoming groceries occupies the same volume as your outgoing garbage? I am dubious, or you are using *way* too much packaging. I bet you have 200 bags stuffed in your cupboard, increasing at 2 a week, and that you won't toss them until next time you move or the cupboard won't close anymore. Either that or you are dumping your grocery bags 1/3 full, which is wasteful.
Cloth bags are really really easy for planned grocery trips. Plus they hold about twice as much as normal bags, and have much nicer handles, which I find easier to carry.
#5
Posted 27 August 2008 - 05:50 AM
Your incoming groceries occupies the same volume as your outgoing garbage?
No, but I also have to deal with a lot of bodies...
#6
Posted 27 August 2008 - 06:00 AM
Time for coffee!
#7
Posted 27 August 2008 - 07:10 AM
Yeah I use plastic bags from the store for my garbage too. I always felt a little silly buying plastic bags for garbage when there was a free supply of them at the check out counter.
That's all I use. So for the few times I don't have my bags(s) with me; I need a few plastic anyway.
As for carrying my own coffee mug around? What, am I supposed to strap it to my belt loop traveling around on transit?
#8
Posted 27 August 2008 - 07:59 AM
Your incoming groceries occupies the same volume as your outgoing garbage? I am dubious, or you are using *way* too much packaging. I bet you have 200 bags stuffed in your cupboard, increasing at 2 a week, and that you won't toss them until next time you move or the cupboard won't close anymore. Either that or you are dumping your grocery bags 1/3 full, which is wasteful..
You are wrong. I fill the bags up and never have a large supply on hand. Don't presume to know how I deal with my garbage.
Cloth bags are really really easy for planned grocery trips. Plus they hold about twice as much as normal bags, and have much nicer handles, which I find easier to carry.
There's the key: PLANNED grocery trips. I rarely plan to get groceries, as alluded to above.
#9
Posted 27 August 2008 - 09:43 AM
#10
Posted 27 August 2008 - 10:22 AM
You are wrong. I fill the bags up and never have a large supply on hand. Don't presume to know how I deal with my garbage.
Its not really presumption, just logic: if 50% of the stuff in those bags is food, then you are throwing them out half full.
Of you fill them up with stuff you didn't buy in the bags. Or you are not using the sewage system the way it was meant to be used. Or you are violating the conservation of mass.
#11
Posted 27 August 2008 - 10:48 AM
Now can we get this back to the topic of coffee???
#12
Posted 27 August 2008 - 10:52 AM
#13
Posted 27 August 2008 - 11:02 AM
#14
Posted 27 August 2008 - 11:04 AM
#15
Posted 27 August 2008 - 11:09 AM
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#16
Posted 27 August 2008 - 11:10 AM
#17
Posted 27 August 2008 - 12:03 PM
Its not really presumption, just logic: if 50% of the stuff in those bags is food, then you are throwing them out half full.
Of you fill them up with stuff you didn't buy in the bags. Or you are not using the sewage system the way it was meant to be used. Or you are violating the conservation of mass.
If I ever have extra bags, I just take them back to the store and put them in the bag recycling bin. I have no idea if they actually get recycled, but that's where I put them. It's never been a problem.
#18
Posted 27 August 2008 - 12:28 PM
The Canadian Superstore brand of stores used to charge something like 4 or 5 cents per bag, maybe even more.
I think that you can buy their reusable ones for a dollar now. I would caution people not to ask for a regualr bag because they do not have them.
#19
Posted 27 August 2008 - 12:47 PM
The idea of stores refusing to give out or sell plastic bags is repugnant to me. After all, they sell them in the bin liner aisle, so why not sell them for 5 cents individually?
I never had to buy bags from Superstore, since I always brought my own, but now that they don't even sell them anymore, I'm really annoyed. They're still selling boxes and boxes of bin liners, and I don't want their higher quality reusable bags since I already have 4 or 5 of my own. Just sell me a little plastic bag, and not one of those big "I'm so green" bags.
#20
Posted 25 January 2016 - 06:50 AM
The Canadian Superstore brand of stores used to charge something like 4 or 5 cents per bag, maybe even more.
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