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There's a proposal for a grocery bag tax. I know in parts of Europe they don't offer you free bags and you have to pay the equivalent 25cents or 50cents if you don't have your marche bag handy.

Thoughts?
 
No thoughts! They should charge you $5.00 for starting this thread!
 
My wife makes some very nice grocery bags with liners... and we take them whenever we shop. They are washable as well.
 
The company I work for gives you a 25 cent discount for every bag you bring in yourself.
 
Neither. We have about 10 of those recycled canvas type bags. 2 from the Blazers, as a season ticket holder, so no need to waste the paper or plastic.

I'm all for a place banning or charging for the plastic bags. Or taxing, or whatever.
 
We actually use paper and plastic bags at home for a bunch of different things. I wouldn't call them being wasted.
 
44Thrilla said:
The company I work for gives you a 25 cent discount for every bag you bring in yourself.
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Man that's not bad. I remember Safeway used to give you .25cents when you returned a shopping cart on this rail they setup in the parking lots. Of course people used to take advantage of the free money and Safeway got rid of the system.
 
HispanicCausinPanic said:
We actually use paper and plastic bags at home for a bunch of different things. I wouldn't call them being wasted.
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Sorry, meant no reason to waste them on me, since I have lots of the reusable bags. I tend to reuse the bags as well, when we get them, but that plastic is eventually ending up in the trash, and eventually sitting somewhere for a LONG time.
 
RR7 said:
Sorry, meant no reason to waste them on me, since I have lots of the reusable bags. I tend to reuse the bags as well, when we get them, but that plastic is eventually ending up in the trash, and eventually sitting somewhere for a LONG time.
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Good point
 
Well I don't think paper condoms would work that well, so, plastic.

Oh, grocery bags! I get it now.:drumroll:
 
The Bobs said:
I got a bunch of bananas and a bottle of bleach

Five cans of cat food, a chicken, and a peach

I had enough trouble picking out all this food

I can't stand decisions, I think it's so rude

That you ask me if I want Plastic or Paper



I don't know...just a bag!

PLASTIC

Oh, plastic sounds OK, just put in a bag

and let me go home

PAPER

Or, well, maybe paper's better...I don't know how

to make a decision about this...



Well, then the clerk, he says to me:

"Mr. Consumer, please pause to reflect

The choice that you make can have a global effect

On lumberjacks and turtles, politicians and fish

Would you like a paper bag, is that your wish?

On the other hand I offer a bag that won't leak

And besides, it's got handles!"



PLASTIC

Well, OK, give me a plastic bag,

make it a plastic one

PAPER

OOOOh, no, maybe I'll have...Maybe...

Maybe a Paper Bag!

Yeah, it's such a big decision, I've got a bunch of a bananas

and a bottle of bleach,

and what am I gonna put it in...?

PLASTIC OR PAPER

PLASTIC OR PAPER
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barfo
 
I like plastic because I can use them as small garbage bags afterwards. If a store started charging me for bags, I'd stop shopping there.
 
They should start phasing out all plastic and paper bags, and just use canvas. We also have re-usable bags for produce. There are great portions of the ocean that are totally littered with bits of plastic, it's disgusting. Waste all of that energy to carry some groceries home one time.

If people like their plastic bags so much, or can't afford to spend a few bucks on a canvas one(which pays for itself, and more in time), why don't they just re-use their plastic bags?

If they want to really piss off the oil tycoons, they should legalize Hemp, and make hemp bags.
 
Sinobas said:
They should start phasing out all plastic and paper bags, and just use canvas. We also have re-usable bags for produce. There are great portions of the ocean that are totally littered with bits of plastic, it's disgusting. Waste all of that energy to carry some groceries home one time.

If people like their plastic bags so much, or can't afford to spend a few bucks on a canvas one(which pays for itself, and more in time), why don't they just re-use their plastic bags?

If they want to really piss off the oil tycoons, they should legalize Hemp, and make hemp bags.
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uhh, maybe because we don't like bringing back bags with us to the market? some people just drop in and buy stuff.
 
RR7 said:
Sorry, meant no reason to waste them on me, since I have lots of the reusable bags. I tend to reuse the bags as well, when we get them, but that plastic is eventually ending up in the trash, and eventually sitting somewhere for a LONG time.
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paper and plastic bags don't have to end up in the trash. both can be recycled.
 
rocketeer said:
paper and plastic bags don't have to end up in the trash. both can be recycled.
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Where can plastic bags be recycled? Every recycle container I've seen says "no plastic bags"
 
BTOWN_HUSTLA said:
uhh, maybe because we don't like bringing back bags with us to the market? some people just drop in and buy stuff.
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"You don't like it", well, we wouldn't want you to be burdened with that inconvenience. Many people don't want to bother having to put things in the recycling bin, it's much easier to just throw everything in the dumpster, then out of sight, out of mind right?
 
Sinobas said:
"You don't like it", well, we wouldn't want you to be burdened with that inconvenience. Many people don't want to bother having to put things in the recycling bin, it's much easier to just throw everything in the dumpster, then out of sight, out of mind right?
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Yup!
 
I live right next to the ocean, I never see plastic bags floating aimlessly in the water.
 
Sinobas said:
Where can plastic bags be recycled? Every recycle container I've seen says "no plastic bags"
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pretty sure they take them at Fred Meyer, and probably every grocery store. I think giving credits for recycling the existing bags, bottle returns style, would be a better solution. That way, people who just stop in to buy something quick (like Xericx or whatever he's calling himself these days said) wouldn't be inconvenienced. I prefer the reusable bags anyway, they're much sturdier and never tear.
 
why do you need credits. if you want to use the burlap sacks, go ahead and use them if you want...not like you're forced to use the paper or plastic.
 
BTOWN_HUSTLA said:
why do you need credits. if you want to use the burlap sacks, go ahead and use them if you want...not like you're forced to use the paper or plastic.
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because it would give incentive for people to return the plastic bags to be recycled. i don't see how that could really be a bad thing.
 
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