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Old 06-26-2015, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
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Kaaboom, certainly you shop at local retailers frequently enough to collect a few plastic bags to use on your trips to Eugene? If not, you can have mine; I've got hundreds that I've been meaning to put in the recycling thing in the Florence Safeway.
I've got a drawer full of plastic bags too, but thanks anyways.

Really though we are talking about the OP, who lives in Eugene, who probably doesn't have the resources to travel to Florence to shop at a store that gives out bags. It probably wouldn't make economic sense anyway.

It's also probably a moot point anyway. In California I actually did make it a point to shop in cities where it was still legal for stores to give out bags. That was good for a short time, but eventually it became a statewide ban. Which is what will probably happen in Oregon.
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Old 06-26-2015, 11:00 PM
 
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Just trying to help since you were complaining about having to buy bags on your forays to Eugene to stock up.

Springfield stores give out free bags. Seriously, though, I'd just get an inexpensive canvas or burlap deal if I were the OP.
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Old 06-27-2015, 06:25 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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I don't use bags if I can avoid it. I shop with two medium sized cardboard boxes and a small insulated cooler. Frozen foods go into the cooler, small items go into the boxes, and large items like paper towels, milk jugs, etc. ride like they are.
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Old 06-28-2015, 03:00 PM
 
Location: California
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People in Europe have been using their own bags for years. It isn't a new idea. Does anyone have a better idea to clean up after those who don't care about the environment?
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Old 06-28-2015, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
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People in Europe have been using their own bags for years. It isn't a new idea. Does anyone have a better idea to clean up after those who don't care about the environment?
Well, you start by not doing the wrong thing, and it has already been proven in Europe to be the wrong thing.

Why California’s Plastic-Bag Ban Won’t Help the Environment
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Old 07-02-2015, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Western NC.
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We just returned from Scotland where we had to pay for bags, no wonder it was so clean everywhere we went, didn't see one bag stuck in a tree. They also had recycling trash cans on all the streets, bus and train stations. It really made a positive impression on us!
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Old 07-02-2015, 12:37 PM
 
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I find it irritating too. I have to drive 90 miles to Eugene to shop, then get hit with having to pay for bags on top of that. Why can't there be a Target store on the Coast? Unfortunately I don't know of any other decent place to shop in this part of Oregon, so don't have much choice. I'm kind of used to it anyway. When I lived in California, I had to pay for bags everywhere.

BTW I'm more concerned with the trees that have to be cut down to make the paper bags. Plastic is recyclable, which I am more then happy to do. It's just a pointless feel good law that doesn't really accomplish anything.

Just a thought, but you could buy a large heavy-duty back pack. Load most of your groceries into that. Makes it easier to carry too.
No, plastic is very hard to recycle, and is typically not even called recycling--it's called downcycling because the end product is very much inferior. Plastic is very harmful to the environment, especially the aquatic environment. Not remembering to bring a reusable bag is your fault.
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Old 07-02-2015, 12:45 PM
 
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Well, you start by not doing the wrong thing, and it has already been proven in Europe to be the wrong thing.

Why California’s Plastic-Bag Ban Won’t Help the Environment
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Recycling of plastic lags because recovery is hard and new production is cheap - The Washington Post
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Old 07-03-2015, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
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Again, forcing poor people to pay for otherwise free bags, doesn't solve that problem. It never has anywhere it has been tried, it never will.
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Old 07-03-2015, 01:39 PM
 
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You're not forced to pay for them. If you're driving 90 miles to grocery shop, you should be driving a few more over to the Springfield Winco for food is cheaper and bags are free anyway. besides, you've got a drawer full of plastic bags you claim to have in your vehicle for your next trip to Eugene's big box stores.
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