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Environment & Energy

Native

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1. You know, those brown paper bags worked just fine.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2024, 06:00 AM

Nov 25

Our local Sprouts Farmers Market only has the super thick plastic "reusable" bags for purchase, absolutely no alternative. These damn things are at least 10 times the thickness of the standard plastic grocery bags. I'm not talking the kind you buy and use over and over again - this looks just like the regular bags but disgustingly thick. When I forget my bags, I just leave with my stuff in a cart and then toss it in my car. Fuck plastic bags.

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Banning free plastic bags for groceries resulted in customers purchasing more plastic bags, study finds [View all] littlemissmartypants Nov 25 OP

You know, those brown paper bags worked just fine. Native Nov 25 #1

I have been re-using the same sturdy cotton-bag for 10 years now. DetlefK Nov 25 #2

Funny, in Europe HarryM Nov 25 #3

If we did deposits we'd never see roadsides trashed with bottles. Callie1979 Nov 25 #5

They may have banned plastic bags here in New York, but everything you buy at the grocery store comes in plastic! Rhiannon12866 Nov 25 #4

I'm a cashier in an upscale grocery store in NJ. 2-1/2 years w/o plastic and paper. no_hypocrisy Nov 25 #6

my fave hdw store always has boxes. mopinko Nov 25 #7

I don't see plastic as an option in Colorado--at least where I have spent time. Everyone brings own or pays for PAPER. hlthe2b Nov 25 #8

One of the stores I frequent removed the freee thin plastic bags and replaced them with sturdier ones but mitch96 Nov 25 #9

California is banning all plastic bags starting in 2016. hunter Nov 25 #10