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If you happen to live in Oregon and are going to the store today you will have to bring your own bags or buy paper bags.
 
kjironman1 said:
If you happen to live in Oregon and are going to the store today you will have to bring your own bags or buy paper bags.
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I've never used plastic bags. I've always asked for paper. So far no one has charged me for a paper bag, even yesterday.
 
Lanny said:
I've never used plastic bags. I've always asked for paper. So far no one has charged me for a paper bag, even yesterday.
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Not sure all stores will charge you for paper? But you will be charged in some way. Thing is if you are charged? You will be charged if you use them or not right?
I'm good with no more plastic.
 
andalusian said:
California had this for about 2 years now. After the initial getting used to it phase - it is not a real issue.
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Yeah, it's been this way in Multnomah County so have been use to it for awhile but it always struck me funny when I would go down towards Clackamas Town Center and stores were still using plastic.
 
andalusian said:
California had this for about 2 years now. After the initial getting used to it phase - it is not a real issue.
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It's never been an issue with me.
 
kjironman1 said:
If you happen to live in Oregon and are going to the store today you will have to bring your own bags or buy paper bags.
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Or just make several trips to the car and back as I do, getting exercise while negating the need for bags at all.

Lazy left is never willing to make the physical effort to enact true positive change.
 
Plastic anything is crap, and bags are the least polluting of the products.

Phones, computers, TV's, cars, clothes, bottles, DVDs, toys...
 
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Ill never carry my own bags into a store! My wife will though.
Ill have them deliver before I become a bag man! lol
 
Hoopguru said:
Ill never carry my own bags into a store! My wife will though.
Ill have them deliver before I become a bag man! lol
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Yeah i get that also. I'll end up paying the nickle for the paper bag. I'm good with that.
 
Hoopguru said:
Ill never carry my own bags into a store! My wife will though.
Ill have them deliver before I become a bag man! lol
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I guess my new product line will be super-masculine reusable grocery bags. They'll be leather, riveted at the corners, with maybe a mudflap girl on them?

Watch for me on Shark Tank next season!

barfo
 
barfo said:
I guess my new product line will be super-masculine reusable grocery bags. They'll be leather, riveted at the corners, with maybe a mudflap girl on them?

Watch for me on Shark Tank next season!

barfo
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Tell Cuban he can have your invention in exchange for Doncic
 
MARIS61 said:
Or just make several trips to the car and back as I do, getting exercise while negating the need for bags at all.

Lazy left is never willing to make the physical effort to enact true positive change.
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Rotflma. Yep everything is the lefts fault. You are one confused man.
 
barfo said:
I guess my new product line will be super-masculine reusable grocery bags. They'll be leather, riveted at the corners, with maybe a mudflap girl on them?

Watch for me on Shark Tank next season!

barfo
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I’m now nostalgically remembering the big push to use plastic bags instead of paper, to save the trees. I guess the geniuses changed their minds again.

In all seriousness though plastic bags are a nuisance. I’ve got like 500 of them under my kitchen sink right now that may never get used. And they make up a good percentage of the litter you see outside. Didn’t they find a Walmart bag at the bottom of Mariana’s Trench or something crazy like that?

If the dipshit politicians actually gave a fuck (they don’t) then they would fund an effort to give away those reusable cloth bags, they work just fine. We keep them in our cars and try to use them as much as we can.
 
jonnyboy said:
If the dipshit politicians actually gave a fuck (they don’t) then they would fund an effort to give away those reusable cloth bags, they work just fine. We keep them in our cars and try to use them as much as we can.
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Nah, Safeway, Fred Meyers, pretty much all the grocery stores have savings cards that track your purchases. They could easily make it so every $100 you spend you get a free cloth bag with their store name stamped on the side of it.
 
It's been this way in Seattle for quite a while. You easily get used to it and buy some cloth bags and bring them. Or buy paper bags if you forget. It's not that big of a deal.
 
If you're going the reusable bag route make sure that you get bags that can be washed and make sure you wash them regularly.
 
Wonderful law. Now instead of reusing plastic bags to line waste baskets, pick up pet crap, etc. we get to buy bags for those purposes.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
If you want a free insulated reususable bag, sign up to drive for Postmates and/or DoorDash. They send the bags for free. You don't have to actually do anything. #lifehack #cheapass
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Wouldn't that involve giving them your ODL and SS information? Not sure that's a great idea.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Wouldn't that involve giving them your ODL and SS information? Not sure that's a great idea.
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I mean I have actually used them to make some extra money, but I don't think it's likely that anything bad would happen if you didn't. Unless it's just the fact that they'd have your information. I don't really care about things like that myself.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
I mean I have actually used them to make some extra money, but I don't think it's likely that anything bad would happen if you didn't. Unless it's just the fact that they'd have your information. I don't really care about things like that myself.
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Nothing wrong with using them to make money but giving them your personal information just to get some free bags seems risky to me. You hear about these companies being hacked all the time.
 
kjironman1 said:
Very misinformed. Phones Computers and TV's are durable and can be recycled or reused. We all recycle Bottles. DVD's are already being replaced by electronic storage.
But Plastic bags?
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org...ability/sustainability/plastic_bag_facts.html
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Fake news.
Portlanders separate their trash into 3 bins, pay extra for it, then it all gets dumped at the landfill.
Batteries are the most toxic, and abundant daily pollutant, both in production and disposal. Another reason electric vehicles are a really bad idea.
 
CupWizier said:
Yeah, it's been this way in Multnomah County so have been use to it for awhile but it always struck me funny when I would go down towards Clackamas Town Center and stores were still using plastic.
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They've been using plastic bags in Lake Oswego but I automatically ask for paper. I don't even have to think about it. It's automatic the way saying thank you to someone who holds the door open is automatic.
Hoopguru said:
Ill never carry my own bags into a store! My wife will though.
Ill have them deliver before I become a bag man! lol
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I don't carry reusable bags. For one thing they're unsanitary.
I'll pay the nickel for a paper bag. So far I haven't found a grocery store that charges a nickel for a paper bag. I double sack my groceries. I've had too many bags break and spill the contents all over the the street or my sidewalk as I entered my house.
 
e_blazer said:
Wonderful law. Now instead of reusing plastic bags to line waste baskets, pick up pet crap, etc. we get to buy bags for those purposes.
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I don't know where you shop but I haven't found a single grocery store in all of Portland that charges for paper bags.

My bad, my wife, who does all the shopping, says several stores charge 10 cents per paper bag. She has been doing what Maris does and that's carrying the items by hand from the store to her car. Winco provides bags for free.

I'm too disabled to shop myself so I will never have a problem with paying for bags. Luckily, Costco gives you a box to take everything to your car.
 
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Lanny said:
I don't know where you shop but I haven't found a single grocery store in all of Portland that charges for paper bags.

My bad, my wife, who does all the shopping, says several stores charge 10 cents per paper bag. She has been doing what Maris does and that's carrying the items by hand from the store to her car. Winco provides bags for free.

I'm too disabled to shop myself so I will never have a problem with paying for bags. Luckily, Costco gives you a box to take everything to your car.
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Lanny, the law went into effect January 1st. It requires grocers to get rid of plastic bags and to charge customers 5 cents for each paper bag the store has to provide. This is supposed to”train” shoppers to bring their own bags.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.or...ts-for-paper-grocery-bags.html?outputType=amp
 
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