San Fran to ban plastic grocery bags

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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    hippiemom wrote:
    Well, if they don't give me a bag, I'm just going to have to buy bags. Either way, a bag full of dog shit winds up in the trash, so what's the difference?

    Everyone should own a reusable bag. I use my daypack all the time.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    gue_barium wrote:
    Everyone should own a reusable bag. I use my daypack all the time.
    You put shit in your daypack?! :eek:
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    hippiemom wrote:
    You put shit in your daypack?! :eek:

    This isn't about your home cleaning issues. It's about eliminating (ha ha)unneccessary environmentally harmful conveniences aka paper and plastic bags at the grocery store.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    gue_barium wrote:
    This isn't about your home cleaning issues. It's about eliminating (ha ha)unneccessary environmentally harmful conveniences aka paper and plastic bags at the grocery store.
    But we all throw things away, and sometimes we need something to throw them away in. I already said that I have reusable bags that I take with me to the store, but I also get as many of the disposable bags as I'll need for garbage and recycling.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    hippiemom wrote:
    But we all throw things away, and sometimes we need something to throw them away in. I already said that I have reusable bags that I take with me to the store, but I also get as many of the disposable bags as I'll need for garbage and recycling.

    Taking them out of the supermarket reduces the waste and the litter.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I personally like the idea of, perhaps not banning the plastic grocery bags everywhere, but to charge for them. Paper can be free, cloth and canvas bags you earn a deposit for everytime you use them (here, the Hannaford stores sell cloth bags and you get a nickel back every time you use them), and plastic you'd have to pay extra to get. That would make the grocery store baggers think twice about putting only 2 items in each bag.
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    Seriously, this is once again government finding the stupidest thing they can and making a law to make people think that they know what they are doing and that they 'care'.

    Let's take a vote....how many people re-use those plastic bags?

    Now, limiting the packaging of materials (including food) would have a far greater effect. How many of you re-use the box from your cereal?

    This is not even a band-aid.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    cincybearcat wrote:
    Let's take a vote....how many people re-use those plastic bags?
    Let's take another vote...how many people throw out multiple bags that fill up our landfills? Ultimately, whether those bags are reused or not, they all end up in the same place.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    cincybearcat wrote:
    Seriously, this is once again government finding the stupidest thing they can and making a law to make people think that they know what they are doing and that they 'care'.

    Let's take a vote....how many people re-use those plastic bags?

    Now, limiting the packaging of materials (including food) would have a far greater effect. How many of you re-use the box from your cereal?

    This is not even a band-aid.

    i'd say this is once again somebody whining about gov't for the sake of it ...

    it's similar to the incandescent light bulb ... there is no reason why we should be using them moving forward ... the majority of these plastic bags go from store to landfill - the waste is ridiculous ... but most people are ignorant and don't care - walk your average city streets and there's garbage everywhere cuz people can't be bothered to find a receptacle and that's with a law against littering in place ...

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