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[todd]

Styrofoam of course .Do you know it’s common practice in Japan to put each individual piece of fruit you buy in its own singular plastic bag when shopping.
Heaven forbid two or more apples share the same plastic bag .

Yet Tokyo has very clean streets and yet no trash cans.

[Love the rock]

Japan
Strictly enforced recycling laws . A culture who does not litter .Few outside trash bins and they seldom eat food on the streets . So maybe banning plastic bags isn’t the right answer.

[jonny]

I use my paper bags for my recycling.  What will I use when those are banned?

 

In 2024 the only bags allowed in the CoV will be bicycle panniers. 

[spanky123]

^ shhh.

Now City council will be writing letters to Japan!

[todd]

Japan
Strictly enforced recycling laws . A culture who does not litter .Few outside trash bins and they seldom eat food on the streets . So maybe banning plastic bags isn’t the right answer.

The no trash cans is more anti-terrorism thing. Also while we’re on the topic they don’t wear sunglasses but they love single use surgical masks.

Edited by todd, 18 April 2019 - 09:27 AM.

[todd]

^ shhh.
Now City council will be writing letters to Japan!

Maybe all of council will sign up for whale wars should be wrapping the whales in wax coated paper.

[Cassidy]

As unbridled capitalism takes advantage of the ever expanding plastic bag ban, and sees pretty much every major grocery store in the core now charging at least 5 cents for a plastic bag whether they operate in a municipality with a by-law in place or not, I find myself now looking for the cheapest plastic bag to determine where I grocery shop.

Looking relatively close to home, I've discovered that Quality Foods in View Royal only charges 5 cents for their plastic bags, and that it's a beautiful, super clean grocery store with decent prices to boot (as all Quality Foods on the Island tend to be).

 

COV will eventually charge $2.00 for a single use plastic bag, and I usually need around 4 bags.

Will I continue to shop at Quality Foods in View Royal and spend 20 cents on 4 bags ... or will I EVER shop in the COV again, and spend $8.00 on 4 bags?

 

Not difficult math for the average consumer to figure out.

 

As might be expected, Langford is the only municipality on record as saying they're not currently interested in, or considering pursuing a plastic bag ban. I wonder if the grocery stores out there charge 5 cents for bags in the absence of a Langford municipal by-law?

It would be a stretch to drive out there to avoid paying five cents for a bag though ... although I might consider it down the road ... just on principal!

[Mike K.]

I think it has more to do with not wanting to implement a ban in one municipality while stores in others provide free plastic bags. It’s bad corporate culture in a small region, so I’d say this has more to do with politics than capitalism.

[Nparker]

...As might be expected, Langford is the only municipality on record as saying they're not currently interested in, or considering pursuing a plastic bag ban...

I imagine that eventually the bag ban will be taken up by the CRD.

[spanky123]

I imagine that eventually the bag ban will be taken up by the CRD.

 

Consumers are free to vote with their wallets and choose not to shop at stores that provide them free or discounted bags. I don't see why the Government needs to get involved.

Edited by spanky123, 24 April 2019 - 07:54 AM.

[Nparker]

...I don't see why the Government needs to get involved.

No government ever needed to get involved in this issue in the first place, but since they have, it seems inevitable that the CRD will eventually take up the "cause" to create consistency across the region.

[rjag]

Went to Fairfield BC Liquor yesterday to buy a 6 pack of the spiked Root Beer as thats the only store that had them. 

 

Didnt take my bag in because it was a 6 pack...discovered that the tins arent being bundled together anymore so had to pay $.25 for a paper bag...the casheir said that most tin packs are being phased out to singles...he also noted that they are selling less tins as a result...so now now bags and all loose...

[Victoria Watcher]

unintended result of anti 6-pack ring lobby.

[DustMagnet]

They sell packs of can in boxes too, don't they?

 

EDIT: Forget the cloth bag, take this everywhere you go.

 

Edited by DustMagnet, 24 April 2019 - 10:51 AM.

[lanforod]

Went to Fairfield BC Liquor yesterday to buy a 6 pack of the spiked Root Beer as thats the only store that had them. 

 

Didnt take my bag in because it was a 6 pack...discovered that the tins arent being bundled together anymore so had to pay $.25 for a paper bag...the casheir said that most tin packs are being phased out to singles...he also noted that they are selling less tins as a result...so now now bags and all loose...

 

Odd. Most cans I'm seeing, particularly craft beers, are converting to the solid Can Clip system instead.

[RFS]

Odd. Most cans I'm seeing, particularly craft beers, are converting to the solid Can Clip system instead.

They also seem to be switching to plastic wrap labels instead of printed labels on the can itself. Ironically using more plastic than before

[Cassidy]

I think it has more to do with not wanting to implement a ban in one municipality while stores in others provide free plastic bags. It’s bad corporate culture in a small region, so I’d say this has more to do with politics than capitalism.

Are you proposing that the Quality Foods in View Royal will eventually charge $2.00 per plastic bag (in the absence of a View Royal by-law) simply because they want to be good corporate citizens and match the $2.00 per bag being legislated in the COV?

 

I don't think I'd buy that premise for a dollar.

[DustMagnet]

They also seem to be switching to plastic wrap labels instead of printed labels on the can itself. Ironically using more plastic than before

 

We're gonna have to trim the "bag" from the title of this thread, since no one can tell the difference between a shopping bag and any other plastic anyway.

[sdwright.vic]

^actually since there are proposals on the radar to ban straws, cutlery, etc...

[RFS]

We're gonna have to trim the "bag" from the title of this thread, since no one can tell the difference between a shopping bag and any other plastic anyway.

You think sea turtles can tell the difference?