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[Midnightly]

Ah, I see the Oak Bay ave one is in Oak bay and Gorge one is in Saanich. I mentally placed the municipal borders wrong. Stupid fractured city... sigh.

 

 

i agree there are many just on the edge of Victoria (another on on shelbourne street) the borders are not always easy to find the edge of it all flows together 

[Love the rock]

They can't even enforce bylaw infractions by pot shops...

I disagree they can enforce it look at how Langford dealt with it .
They chose not to have it dealt with .

[sdwright.vic]

"They" equals the City of Victoria.

[LJ]

Quality Foods in Langford charged me $.03 for a plastic bag last week.

[Matt R.]

Country Grocer still gives me a nickel for each bag I bring in. Seems to be no limit. Today i packed my own groceries in five bags (two would have done, and if I had to pay it would have been one) and saved a quarter!

Matt.

[Nparker]

...Today i packed my own groceries in five bags...and saved a quarter!

20 more shopping trips like that and you'll have covered the cost of those 5 bags!

[Matt R.]

These bags have paid for themselves a long time ago, it’s all gravy now.

Matt.

[VicHockeyFan]

These bags have paid for themselves a long time ago, it’s all gravy now.

Matt.

I’m not so sure. Are they in the car at all times, no matter if you are making a grocery run or not? If they are, they cost you money every mile.

Every extra 100 pounds of empty shopping bags reduces your fuel efficiency by 2%. So if you carry around 5,000 pounds of empty shopping bags your gas bill will be double. Plus that will be hard on your shock absorbers, ball joints etc.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 11 May 2018 - 04:53 AM.

[Mattjvd]

I paid the $0.05 for a "single-use" plastic bag at the Vic West Save on Foods for the first time in about a while. Their bags are a little more heavy duty now, thicker plastic, certainly makes them more practicle to use as garbage bags.

Edited by Mattjvd, 11 May 2018 - 06:38 AM.

[lanforod]

I’m not so sure. Are they in the car at all times, no matter if you are making a grocery run or not? If they are, they cost you money every mile.

Every extra 100 pounds of empty shopping bags reduces your fuel efficiency by 2%. So if you carry around 5,000 pounds of empty shopping bags your gas bill will be double. Plus that will be hard on your shock absorbers, ball joints etc.

 

That extra bite of dinner you had makes more of a difference .

[Matt R.]

I’m not so sure. Are they in the car at all times, no matter if you are making a grocery run or not? If they are, they cost you money every mile.
Every extra 100 pounds of empty shopping bags reduces your fuel efficiency by 2%. So if you carry around 5,000 pounds of empty shopping bags your gas bill will be double. Plus that will be hard on your shock absorbers, ball joints etc.

They are. When I get home, I unpack the bags, roll them up and put them in my shoe. When I leave the house next I am forced to remember my bags as I need my shoes. I grocery shop or bring groceries home from work nearly every day as we are bourgeoisie and shop on a whim.

I also drove around for a full week with 17” winter tires on steel rims in the back so I need all the bag savings I can get!

Matt.

[Nparker]

...I grocery shop or bring groceries home from work nearly every day as we are bourgeoisie and shop on a whim....

Not just bourgeoisie, but an enemy of Gaia since you drive a vehicle to purchase your groceries. 

[Matt R.]

Salt Spring is shockingly terrible for walking or cycling unless you live right in one of the two villages.

Matt.

[VicHockeyFan]

Now the City wants to ban straws and cups, and takeout containers.

[VicHockeyFan]

Victoria eyes ban on foam containers, plastic drinking straws

“Really, what the aim is overall is to create strategies and programs to minimize all single-use materials — straws, Styrofoam cups, takeaway food [containers], other packaging so that really we do get to a zero-waste circular economy where there is no garbage,” Lisa Helps said.

http://www.timescolo...raws-1.23309405

[spanky123]

Now the City wants to ban straws and cups, and takeout containers.

 

What about plastic cutlery? Can't let that escape the noose!

 

Helps' nanny state, hard at work with your tax dollars.

[VicHockeyFan]

It’s pretty hard to know how you’d get to “no garbage”. Pretty sure that Amazon will be unable to ship you your new TV just loosely, free of packaging.

The government has not given us an option for recycling dog waste, diapers, in fact almost all plastics are not recyclable currently.

[sdwright.vic]

So basically the city wants to turn me into a pack mule with all the shite I will have to carry in me to exist in the world... or I just won't buy that daily cup of coffee or do happy hour downtown a couple of times a week. No more shopping during my lunch hour. Especially in nice weather.

Edited by sdwright.vic, 22 May 2018 - 07:00 AM.

[spanky123]

So basically the city wants to turn me into a pack mule with all the shite I will have to carry in me to exist in the world... or I just won't buy that daily cup of coffee or do happy hour downtown a couple of times a week. No more shopping during my lunch hour. Especially in nice weather.

 

You can always shop in Saanich, Esquimalt or Oak Bay.

[sdwright.vic]

I work downtown and bus in and out from the Selkirk area. So I guess that means going home and getting in my car?