Rant: Plastic bags

[debilorrah]

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That's what we do -- we use them as trash can liners. Beats buying bags specifically designed for that purpose, when the plastic grocery bags work just fine.

Yep. They work for kitty litter, taking scraps to the birds, trash can liners, icky stuff pickeruppers.

 

[Imprfctme]

Oh I agree but I usually bring my cloth bag to the store and use that instead of the plastic carry-all to gather my purchases. When I get to the register I just ask the cashier to put everything back in the bag. Kinda keeps me from buying too much as well, lol! I try to keep meat in the same insulated bag each trip but I'm probably guilty of not washing my bags enough. Then again, how clean is the trunk of the car? The shopping cart? Eh, you need a little bacteria right. I do find myself short of bags for the waste baskets sometimes but I have a great solution for cleaning the coop: I use a kitty litter scoop and the same tinkerbelle sneaker shoebox to clean the roosting area every morning, then dump it on the compost pile. We only have four hens though so its manageable enough that I use a kid's shoebox. If I give them scraps I just carry them out in a dish or a bowl and toss them into the coop. It would be great if everyone reduced their use of bags but I'd be screwed if they outlawed them completely for those times when I completely forget and leave my bags in the car.

 

[debilorrah]

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I hear ya!!!

 

[LittleChickenLady]

They're probably specifically trained not to actually. I know that where I just worked, we weren't allowed to ask if they had coupons because it could get us in trouble with corporate. Even though if we didn't and then they pulled one out we had to go through a big ordeal of over-ringing the ticket and getting the manager..

We also weren't supposed to ask if they wanted a receipt if they paid with a debit card, even though a lot of people just throw them away or leave them on the counter for me to throw away..


I'll always gladly take the bags, even if it's for one item, because I always have uses for them at home.

 

[StupidBird]

I made a really cute (

gah, over cute) pair of shopping bags once upon a restricted-to-bed time. Cut a pair of holey jeans off just below the seat, sewed it closed and added handles for a jeans butt bag. The legs were opened out at the inside seam and sewn together for a drawstring bag. Very durable, washable.

Once I plopped down the handful of cloth bags on the conveyor in front of the groceries. The clerk tried to ring them up.

But I find the plastic ones very useful. All my house garbage cans are sized to fit these as liners, including a bucket for the kitchen. So handy for the cat litter and walking the dog (see, neighborhood? I have my bag in hand, take a hint!)

There's lots of talk for outlawing the plastics. Sure it's good, I've no worries that I'll find something else to use.

 

[MsPony]

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We recently voted and it was turned down

The board said it MAKES sense, by KNOW it's bad, but financially it's not economical to conduct a study.

You know where I work, I've actually done my own personal thing the last month and only used two plastic bags for customers, two! Out if hundreds! So Ive challenged my coworkers and they found when they offer and grab a paper bag, no one wants plastic anyways. I told this to my professor, would be cool if I could get more students working retail on board.

 

[MsPony]

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The problem, which coastal communities find, if they don't biodegrade, they Photodegrade, which means they break apart into thousands of tiny pieces and NEVER leave. There is a huge trash gyre in the pacific ocean, and animals are dying. There's a great movie I'll have to find later about this.

(sorry, I'm a marine biology student focusing in conservation lol!)

 

[Carols Clucks]

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We recently voted and it was turned down

The board said it MAKES sense, by KNOW it's bad, but financially it's not economical to conduct a study.

You know where I work, I've actually done my own personal thing the last month and only used two plastic bags for customers, two! Out if hundreds! So Ive challenged my coworkers and they found when they offer and grab a paper bag, no one wants plastic anyways. I told this to my professor, would be cool if I could get more students working retail on board.

Waves to MsPony-we are in the same town, no idea why they think they need a study-why not read all the other cities/counties studies and see why they opted the law.

 

[AnaD]

I hate plastic in general. My household has greatly cut down on our consumption a lot, and as a result we have far less trash. My sister and mother visited and our house was flooded with plastic bags (even though we have tons of reusable ones) and tons of plastic bottles (even though we have a water filter). We filled the trash bin SO FAST every day I was overwhelmed with trash and at a loss at how two people could be so wasteful and not even seem to care.

 

[fuzziebutt]

I get psychotic at the grocery store when some kid puts 10 items in 11 bags. If I ask them to pack the bags out, they double bag it! I have seen them put a bag of potatoes in a bag.