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Dirty, disgusting, reusuable grocery bags? Not as dirty, disgusting, reusuable as cash! But these stores are still accepting cash and cc. No sense. Lobbying by the plastics industry I’m sure.
Yes. Our local Walmart has a big box in front of store for recycling those plastic bags from their's and other stores. When I have enough supply of bags for scooping, I take the rest, keep them in my car to put them in recycle box whenever I go to the store. Not difficult. You don't recycle other items?
I do know that NYS, with the highest percentage of coronavirus cases in country, has lifted their ban on plastic grocery bags because of the virus. Don't know if California lifted their ban as well?
Talk about odd timing. My small town finally implemented its first ban on plastic bags in January and started charging people who didn't bring their own reusables. I know, I know, we're not exactly on the cutting edge of many social movements. Now some grocery stores are refusing customer reusable bags. It doesn't seem to be driven by the state. I've used canvas shopping bags for over 30 years. I bag my own groceries, load my own carts, load my own car. Yes, I wash them if something they carried leaked, but other than that they've never been "disgusting". I don't have any reason to touch them for a week or so at a time so doubt there's anything particularly pathogenic about them.
We use our own shopping bags.
But our store has a scan-it-yourself tool. We never speak to anyone. Choose; scan; bag, pay, go.
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Originally Posted by Parnassia
Talk about odd timing. My small town finally implemented its first ban on plastic bags in January and started charging people who didn't bring their own reusables. I know, I know, we're not exactly on the cutting edge of many social movements. Now some grocery stores are refusing customer reusable bags. It doesn't seem to be driven by the state. I've used canvas shopping bags for over 30 years. I bag my own groceries, load my own carts, load my own car. Yes, I wash them if something they carried leaked, but other than that they've never been "disgusting". I don't have any reason to touch them for a week or so at a time so doubt there's anything particularly pathogenic about them.
For both of you-
The point is, if they're in your house, they're potentially contamined. If you put your bags in the grocery cart, you're potentially contaminating the cart. Even if you use self-checkout, you have to put the bag in the bagging area, potentially contaminating it.
Dirty, disgusting, reusuable grocery bags? Not as dirty, disgusting, reusuable as cash! But these stores are still accepting cash and cc. No sense. Lobbying by the plastics industry I’m sure.
Yes, "Big Plastic". You know, I used to live in "Big Ag(riculture)" country and I've seen a lot, but I still eat.
The point is, if they're in your house, they're potentially contamined. If you put your bags in the grocery cart, you're potentially contaminating the cart. Even if you use self-checkout, you have to put the bag in the bagging area, potentially contaminating it.
I understand cross contamination thank you very much. I will comply with whatever restrictions are put into effect. No one I've been in close contact with for the past 3 months has traveled, been exposed, or been sick (flu, cold or otherwise), no one other than me has stepped foot in my house or my car since December, I haven't traveled anywhere or set foot in anyone else's house since before Christmas, haven't had a cold or flu since last winter, the bags haven't been handled by anyone other than me and won't be anytime soon. Yes, I have spent a few hours working behind the scenes at the public library but it's been closed for weeks. There hasn't been a single case of suspected or confirmed Covid-19 within 90 miles. My skepticism about pathogens on these particular bags stands.
Old woman on supermarket line placed her bags on the belt for the cashier to bag. Coronavirus or not, wash those bags, or throw them out. No wonder states have stopped their bans on single use plastic bags.
On the list of things that concerns me, this is way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom.
You have no idea if whatever you just bought was touched by the dude who took a dump and didn't wash his hands after. There are so many things that I think are nasty but a bag that neither I, nor anything I'm buying, will ever touch is not one of them.
I understand cross contamination thank you very much. I will comply with whatever restrictions are put into effect. No one I've been in close contact with for the past 3 months has traveled, been exposed, or been sick (flu, cold or otherwise), no one other than me has stepped foot in my house or my car since December, I haven't traveled anywhere or set foot in anyone else's house since before Christmas, haven't had a cold or flu since last winter, the bags haven't been handled by anyone other than me and won't be anytime soon. Yes, I did work at the public library but it's been closed for weeks. There hasn't been a single case of suspected or confirmed Covid-19 within 90 miles. My skepticism about pathogens on these particular bags stands.
What makes you think people don't wash their reusable bags??
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