Starting Jan. 1, we’ll all be paying for plastic shopping bags (Ovid: low income, buy)

[suzco]

Did you know?

After a shopping stop at King Soopers, I found a flyer in the bag reminding us that starting in January, there will be a statewide fee for bags.

BYOB! (bring your own bag)

[brightdoglover]

I've been carrying my own canvas bags for years now. Just leave them in the car and it works fine.

[cowboyxjon]

Yep, and I believe bags will be banned in 2024, right? Won’t make a lick of difference when it comes to the environment, but our politicians can give themselves a pat on the back.

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

I've been carrying my own canvas bags for years now. Just leave them in the car and it works fine.

Exactly.

[Colorado Rambler]

The article that you linked to stated that the new fee will be 10 cents a bag. Yikes! 10 cents is a comparatively low sum, but if you are low income and on a tight budget that can add up pretty quickly. As for me, I have what amounts to almost an embarrassment of riches in the canvas bag department. I keep promising myself that I will do my best to reduce my "plastic footprint," and I buy a couple of canvas bags as proof of my sincerity. Naturally, I never remember to bring my canvas bags to the store when I go in to shop, so I have quite the collection of bags stashed in my laundry room. Hopefully, this new law will be the added little push that I need to reform my wicked ways.

PS If anyone is caught short by this new law, DM me. I'm sure that I can easily put together a collection of canvas bags appropriately themed to match the real you!

[LHS79]

Just like the new "cage free eggs" coming to a store near you.

Why do people keep electing politicians who hate the poor so much?

[waltcolorado]

In this case, I dont think its so much hating the poor, its hating the lazy.

Should the poor not have to go through the small hassle like everyone else to just bring in their own re-usable bags?

Plus bags have a cost to manufacture, distribute, place. $.10 for a bag seems a fair price. We have already been paying for single use bags, its just been included in the cost of goods.

[flyonpa]

At the volume store buy them in they cost them less then a penny each. (Plastic) Paper bags are around 3 cents each.

Funny Story. ... Boston has had a bring your own bag for a while, Stopped into a store to pickup a few thing with my bag, (a plastic bag from different store. Due to COVID, they could not use it, she had me put it in the recycle/trash? bin, and then took new bag and put my stuff in it. No bag 5cents each, Bring bag, toss it, New bag free. Person behind me just took a hand full of them out of the recycle bin, then tossed it back in to get there clean bag.

BTW: Tests have been done on the canvas bags, and most tested high in bacteria.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by flyonpa

... BTW: Tests have been done on the canvas bags, and most tested high in bacteria.

Every so often I throw mine into the washing machine with the jeans.

[bluescreen73]

I think the cage free egg law is dumb - especially in light of the huge run-up in egg prices over the last year (partly inflation, and partly avian flu).

The plastic bag law I'm ok with. Most of my trips don't require a bag, and my wife has reusable canvas bags. If it cuts down on the number of bags that end up in landfills or blowing across the countryside, it's a good thing.