Stop using plastic bags.

but the grocery store i go to give 5 cents back for every reused bag!!

i've got a couple of those little totes, though. i hate drowning in plastic bags.

 

im going to go into walmart with plastic bags and tell them i want to reuse them and see if they'll let me.

 

I reuse and recycle mine.

 

Sea Bags, shopping bags made from old sailboat sails, are another option. The material used in the sails is Dacron, a polyester fiber. While the material's production isn't exactly Earth-friendly (petroleum-based polyester contributes to the depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels and increases our dependence on foreign oil), Sea Bags are strong, water-resistant, machinewashable and reusable Their handles are made of rope that is spliced by hand. www.seabags.com

 

well alot of places around here don't use paper bags anymore and those 'recyclable' cloth bags are very small and they're only a dollar, but we'd probably need 40 of them so its not really worth the investment for us.

 

i just tell the cashier i don't want them. half the time i can carry my purchases out w/o one anyway...people just like to be lazy and want everything dangling from handles.

 

You would be incredibly surprised how much fits into a cloth bag.We go on HUGE huge grocery trip somtimes- stock up the deep freeze- I don't think we have ever used more than 5
Our baggers are always shocked

 

LOL that'd be funny.. I do take any platic bags we get back to the stores.Most grocery stores DO recycle used plastic bags if you return them,can't say ours have ever reused them tho

 

This is such an easy one people...

Just do it MEOW!

 

I don't own plastic bags, I use Glass tuberware.

 

don't use any bag, just carry all those groceries out to the bike like a man.

 

I Agree. I use a canvass bagevery time i go shopping. and i recycle all the plastic bags i can get a hold of.

 

yeah, right, recycle. i do that, in fact, i just put my recycle bin at the curb a couple of hours ago.
now, as for those damn plastic bags. i take mine, to the 'wild oats market' (natural/whole store) that, is a couple of miles from where i live.
i would not bet on the supermarket recycling them though. several years back, the largest supermarket chain in texas, got caught, taking the plastic bags that, people put into the recycle bin at their store and, the store personnal were throwing the bags out in the dumpster.
from what i know about this it, was just that one store doing it and, not the whole chain.
still, you can never be 100% sure that all that stuff you recycle will, be recycled.
i'm not saying, "fuck recycling... throw it all out!"
no, what i am saying is, we all need to check up on the people who, claim they are recycling.

 

Using your own cloth bags for unpackaged bulk foods, now that's the ultimate, too bad more stores don't accommodate that option.

I carry a bundle of cloth bags in my car for everything I buy, and any plastic bags I encounter I reuse for trash.

I'm fairly sure that if you return bags to those recycle centers they melt them down to make more bags, which again raises the issue of energy use and environmental impact.

I developed a strong disdain for plastic bags after encountering a dump in the middle of the Maine wilderness. A profound image that will remain etched in my memory were the plastic bags everywhere, blowing in the wind like tumble weeds, attaching themselves to trees and everything else, it was horrible!

 

Hi!
I think is a good subject to talk, in this case to read,

Here in mexico the government comment on the offer of which the carrier bags of the supermarket should change for paper bags, lamentably the government is lying and corrupt and they give more importance to the theft of the money of the people.
And they create the ahm "influenza" or in English "swin flu" only to relax us, and to make us forget impotant things like the Economic fall of the country and others, already you know the government stinks.

but well, I get pleased your article, expect to read more things like that hereabouts.


Peace.

Regards

Arthemisa

 

Plastic for life!!

 

What the hell kind of man is out grocery shopping?










































*joking*

 

I haven't used plastic bags in years. Here in Montreal, we've started (finally) charging people for them and encouraging reusable ones. That's all I use. I bought these cool ones that fold up into pouches so I can carry them around in my bag wherever I go. They're very convenient.

I was always amazed at cashiers who got mad at me for refusing to use them. None of their business really. I remember one years back who got mad at me for wanting everything in one bag. I really didn't see her concern... It's my business right? Some people are just jealous of people's awareness I guess... oddly enough.

 

'Good to hear some communities are discouraging use by charging for bags (which shouldn't be free anyway, paper or plastic). I've had cashiers glare at me for refusing bags, having taken the two things I bought out of the bag after I told them I didn't want one, and they didn't listen. They look at me like I'm from another planet or something.