No its not chickens, but everyone should see this!

[Timmo]

I never saw the original thread either. I'm surprised it was so recent. Sorry if I sounded like a comeupper.

 

[Wildsky]

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Not at all..... I get a little frustrated now and then with subject lines that don't really give a hint as to whats inside.

I probably sounded a little SNAPPY myself - Sorry!

 

[1acrefarm]

I wish they would go back to paper. Paper increases the amount of trees they plant. It is clean to use in the fireplace. It is compostable. The one drawback I can think of is it costs a little more. Back in the early 80s before cardboard recycling got big my grandma shopped at a store that had no bags. The "bagboy" put your groceries in the cardboard boxes that would otherwise go in dumpster. My grandma loved that store because it was cheaper and cardboard made a good hot fire for a few minutes.

 

[Jillylam]

Just wondering what everyone does for garbage bags. Do you buy plastic bags? I've always used the shopping bags (paper or plastic) as my garbage bags. If you use the cloth bags at the grocery store for your groceries, then you end up buying bags for the garbage.

 

[Wildsky]

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I only have 6 cloth grocery bags, and they're lavendar so DH doesn't use em

so we do still get a few plastic grocery bags for trash. I use them only in the bathroom.

 

[Timmo]

When I was a kid, we reused our paper grocery bags for garbage bags. Then again, we were in a rural area where everyone disposed of their own trash....you burned the burnables, tossed the food scraps in the garden, and every year or so you had to haul the metal trash off to the dump (unless you had your own little dump on your own land for the cans to sit and rust in).

I never thought much about it as a kid. I guess everyone (in cities) couldn't do that, though. The metal garbage should have been recycled, but that wasn't the mentality of the time. It was the norm to just haul it off and dump it.

Today, there's trash pick-up service even in rural areas, but it just gets dumped into a landfill. So there's even more garbage than there used to be (instead of burning the burnables and tossing the food scraps in the garden).

There should be specialty recycling service involved, but there isn't. Maybe someday.

 

[consdrs]

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Nothing wrong with posting it again, and again, and again....is there?

Plastic bags blow (literally), and the advantage of plastic bags over paper bags is what? Handles?

They should ban plastic bags. How lazy are we that plastic grocery bags have almost completely replaced paper bags?

They can make paper bags with handles too....if enough people want them, capitalism will provide them.

Paper is easily replenished, it can be made from so many natural woody plants, many of which don't even need to grow very long before being harvested. An extremely young brushy forest can be harvested for paper, and re-grown in only a couple of years. Not to mention the fact that vast tracts of brushy growth could help bring back some wildlife, like bobwhite quail, whose habitat has been lost to thick fescue pastures. Brushy fields are good.

Paper paper paper!

Ya know years ago all we used was paper. I know cause my husband worked at a mill that made paper bags. then all of the sudden a bunch of wackos decided that cutting down a renewable resource to make bags was gona be the end of the world and that recyclable plastic bags was the way to go!! Its gona save the planet!! lots of ppl where he worked with lost their good family wage jobs. the timber industry here in the pacific northwest has been decimated by these ppl. ppl would look at you funny at the store if you dared put your food in a paper bag, like your some kind of murder or something. now plastic bags are gona be the end of the world! give me a break. I just want to take my stinkin food home. I'm not gona wash and dry 20 cloth bags. I'll take paper any time, its how my family makes a living...

 

[Timmo]

This topic has put me into a 'why do we do the things we do' mode....

Why do we use plastic bags like they are going out of style? Why not use paper or reusable cloth bags?

Are people embarrased? Is it a sort of societal peer-pressure for grown-ups?

If you ask for paper, or bring your own cloth bags, do you look like an outsider or something? A crazy liberal nutcase? A tree-hugger or Hippie wannabe? Someone who doesn't want to go along with the norm? A pain in the arse for the person behind the counter?

Why is being eco-friendly so un-normal in so many places?

Is the fear of looking weird keeping people from doing the right thing in the checkout line?

 

[Wildsky]

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I don't wash my bags every time, and I do try to make sure dry stuff is packed into them, not meat or anything.

 

[Reinbeau]

I use cloth bags, I've got seven or eight of them between the two vehicles. If I'm buying meat then I'll ask that it be put into a plastic bag, it goes into the cloth bag, and when I get home it becomes a trash bag. I reuse or recycle any and all bags that come into the house, if enough plastic builds up I bring it to any supermarket, they've all got bins to put used bags into for recycling. As for washing them all the time, I don't, only if one gets dirty for some reason. It's easy, they hold much more and they don't break apart if something pointy pokes through them.