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No more plastic grocery bags in the grocery stores. So you bring your own recyclable grocery bags, not a problem. However, if you order pick-up or delivery, you are forced to purchase their recyclable grocery bags. At places like Stop N Stop they are 50 cents each. So if your pick-up order has 7 bags, the charge is $3.50. Not a huge deal in terms of cost, because the bags can be reused. However, if you do a pick-up order each week where you are forced to purchase 7 bags that $3.50 a week for about $175.00 a year. But that's not the worst of it, that is an annual accumulation of 350 bags per year. What is your household going to do with 350 recycle bags accumulating each year? Throwing them out sounds wasteful and not good for the environment.
Unless there is another alternative, I see this as killing their pick-up and delivery service for many households.
All stores have different policies about this. ShopRite charges a flat fee of $1.50 per delivery or pick up order, and that covers as many bags as you need. There is a list somewhere on newjersey.com that lists each supermarket and how they are handling it.
They can tax the bags now. That’s all this has ever been about. NowI have to buy big plastic bags whenever I make an unexpected stop at the store. I also have to buy small plastic bags for the small garbage cans around my house. This November and next I’ll be so happy to vote for every non-incumbent on the ballot. Probably won’t change anything in NJ but I’ll even beg others in my neighborhood to vote against them, something I’ve never done before.
Why don’t you just keep the bags in your car for unexpected stops? Since this bill passed well over a year ago, I started hoarding bags long ago and have enough for probably the next few years.
They are a problem, in that they never break down and there is no place to keep billions of bags a year. They end up in the oceans, killing turtles and sea birds who get caught in them. They wash up on the shores of other countries that had nothing to do with creating the mess that lines the shore lines. You can Google videos of scuba divers in places like Bali and Fiji pushing plastic bags out of their way.
Why don’t you just keep the bags in your car for unexpected stops? Since this bill passed well over a year ago, I started hoarding bags long ago and have enough for probably the next few years.
They are a problem, in that they never break down and there is no place to keep billions of bags a year. They end up in the oceans, killing turtles and sea birds who get caught in them. They wash up on the shores of other countries that had nothing to do with creating the mess that lines the shore lines. You can Google videos of scuba divers in places like Bali and Fiji pushing plastic bags out of their way.
Isn't a lot of the plastic in the oceans dumped off ships, passenger and freight?
Just a general disdain for Goodwill. They take advantage of the tax system, they are a giant cesspool of deductions, stopped selling items of value in the stores and started pricing finds for market value on ebay, pay employees minimum wage or some disabled workers below minimum wage while the ceo and executives make millions.
Maybe the church route is the way to go. Ill look into it.
Why don’t you just keep the bags in your car for unexpected stops? Since this bill passed well over a year ago, I started hoarding bags long ago and have enough for probably the next few years.
They are a problem, in that they never break down and there is no place to keep billions of bags a year. They end up in the oceans, killing turtles and sea birds who get caught in them. They wash up on the shores of other countries that had nothing to do with creating the mess that lines the shore lines. You can Google videos of scuba divers in places like Bali and Fiji pushing plastic bags out of their way.
None of that waste is US related along with the giant garbage mass in the Ocean. China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sr Lanka and Thailand dump most of their trash into the Ocean.
The plastic bags from grocery stores decompose in 10-20 years in landfills, im sure the heavy ones they are selling now requires a thousand years to decompose.
Also something else interesting, your trash ends up in the local landfill, much of recycled plastics are sold to China and Asia which are sorted and dumped into the Ocean. Its actually better for the environment to trash your trash instead of recycling in many cases.
If people reuse the bags there will be far less polution than with plastic, even taking China into account.
If people don't use the bags we're screwed. Yesterday there was trash washing up in the ocean, it's rare that happens in this part of NJ, but it was mainly plastic and cardboard I could see in the muck.
If people reuse the bags there will be far less polution than with plastic, even taking China into account.
If people don't use the bags we're screwed. Yesterday there was trash washing up in the ocean, it's rare that happens in this part of NJ, but it was mainly plastic and cardboard I could see in the muck.
Were not screwed as long as people dont litter, or illegally dump. Plastic bags decompose in 10-20 years. I was in LBI for 10 days and didnt see any trash in my stay.
Were not screwed as long as people dont litter, or illegally dump. Plastic bags decompose in 10-20 years. I was in LBI for 10 days and didnt see any trash in my stay.
Depends on the currents. In Northern Monmouth, most of the time the water is clean and tropical looking, we get dolphins nearly every day and the occasional whale. Once in a while though, days like yesterday.
I don’t know but it comes from somewhere and there aren’t any viable alternatives that I know if to keep billions and billions of bags.
I am under the impression that the big clot of plastic floating in the Pacific is plastic bottles and containers that are breaking up into small pieces that the fish eat. Why don't the navies of the world get together and start scooping it up?
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