Plastic Bags

[AdminAssistant]

A few of the grocery stores around here still offer them - including the mercantile coop that I'm trying to use for most of my shopping (yay local!). I prefer them over plastic just because it's fewer total bags. With the exception of Target (I swear you could haul around a bowling ball in one of their bags) plastic bags are so flimsy you can't put very much in them. When I lived in KC and they had pick-up recycling, I used the paper bags for that.

[prb]

On the topic of paper bags, Whole Foods has gone paper-only and the Liquor Control Board tried it but went back to their plastic bottle protector in a paper bag in a plastic bag combo.

[Cat]

I use cloth bags ( have a quite the collection now...and yes, I do reuse them all) Even in regular store, I have a few that fold up and fit in my purse

I don't completely agree with banning or charging for them, but I def love the fact that many store now offer discounts (usually only $0.05 off) if you reuse your bag.

Trader Joes also offers contest raffles if your reuse.

[Boozy]

On the topic of paper bags, Whole Foods has gone paper-only and the Liquor Control Board tried it but went back to their plastic bottle protector in a paper bag in a plastic bag combo.

I forgot about the LCBO. I don't go much anymore, but when I popped in over Christmas to buy some bar supplies they still had paper bags. A bottle of booze in a plain brown paper bag is classic, isn't it?

[prb]

I forgot about the LCBO. I don't go much anymore, but when I popped in over Christmas to buy some bar supplies they still had paper bags. A bottle of booze in a plain brown paper bag is classic, isn't it?

Yeah, they tried eliminating the plastic bags, but ended up bringing them back. So you pick up 2 bottles of wine - they put a plastic sleeve around each one, place then in paper bags, then place those in plastic bags. Bit too much, but any less and they couldn't explain their pricing

[protege]

I still find it amusing that we went to plastic bags in the first place...was to save the forests. Now we have plastic bags blowing in the wind

As to Al Gore, I can't really take him seriously. Mainly because his house (until 2008 anyway) used about 20 times more energy than the average home in the US. Yet, he was telling people we need to consume less?

Seriously though, I recycle my plastic bags. Eventually, they get hauled over to the bin by Giant Eagle. What I don't take over there, gets used as garbage can liners. Also, there's a pair inside each seat in the sports car--the vinyl seat covers don't always slide over the foams easily. Putting a bag over the foam before the cover goes on takes care of that problem

[Seshat]

I carry a couple of microfibre shopping bags that fold up really small, in my handbag. (They're only a tiny bit larger than a modern cellphone.)

We also have some heavier duty grocery bags we carry with us for the food shopping.

The few plastic bags we do get, we use as rubbish bin liners. We've been gradually reducing.

I don't see a reason NOT to tax plastic bags - the money from the tax can go to cleaning the damn flyaways out of our streams! It's horrid, how many end up there.