What to do with all these forced purchased grocery bags? (home, transfer)
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I am not changing I like my insulated zipper large bags I purchased years ago. I keep them in the car all the time. Only twice I forgot to bring them in the store.
I need to find a place in here to use the white nice ones, but cheap, I have to buy when I have the supermarket deliver to my home.
I used one so far for vacuum attachments I hang in the store closet. Another is for personal stuff until I get a cabinet in the bathroom.
I won't throw them away because I know eventually I will use them. As far as left over plastic bags from the supermarket them I still keep in case I ever adopt a kitty. They are good to use for used litter. I was exceptional at scooping immediately so my cats could always be clean. The plastic bags are also good for used cooking grease, small left overs ready to be thrown out, and most of all for the Styrofoam carton I break up that had raw chicken in that stinks up the whole kitchen. I put that in the bag, tie and ad freeze it until garbage day. So for me they come in handy I no longer want them for supermarket shopping they never hold as much as my zipper bags and they are not insulated for summer/winter plus everything falls out of them.
Well that’s your fault for not bringing them with you. I have a set I ordered from Amazon when this crap first started in NY. They stay in the car. Then a few more that I have collected from other people.
So you don’t refuse to buy them lol
I usually get my groceries delivered but when I do go shopping in person I always forget the bags in the car, so I end up bagging my stuff when I get back to my car.
One interesting observation has been that Chinese restaurants seem to have completely ignored the plastic bag ban.
I usually get my groceries delivered but when I do go shopping in person I always forget the bags in the car, so I end up bagging my stuff when I get back to my car.
One interesting observation has been that Chinese restaurants seem to have completely ignored the plastic bag ban.
Under the auspices of the government program. Somewhere on this forum there is a post from when it happened in NY. I ordered 12 from Amazon and never bought one again. I have others that ended up in the house from people bringing food, gifts, etc but that’s it.
Well that’s your fault for not bringing them with you. I have a set I ordered from Amazon when this crap first started in NY. They stay in the car. Then a few more that I have collected from other people.
I absolutely agree with you. I did the same thing and I will continue to keep using them even if the no plastic bags law is retracted.
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Originally Posted by Airborneguy
I still refuse to buy them. I have some I've collected over the years of these pointless edicts, but I mostly just carry my purchases individually.
Ok now I am confused. Do you still use the bags you purchase on Amazon or just carry your groceries or other products you buy?
Sorry I carry to the car usually, because like others, I tend to forget them. I use the bags to get from the car to the house. Plus I mostly shop at a big box store anyway so there its just cart > trunk > home.
I usually get my groceries delivered but when I do go shopping in person I always forget the bags in the car, so I end up bagging my stuff when I get back to my car.
One interesting observation has been that Chinese restaurants seem to have completely ignored the plastic bag ban.
Now stores don't like people bringing their bags with them, apparently they are being used to steal things. They also got rid of all the baskets. Any NJ politician who pledges to end this nonsense has my vote.
In the meantime...2 years later...it's not working.
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"Plastic consumption in New Jersey spiked by nearly three times following the state’s implementation of a strict ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, a study found.
"Following New Jersey’s ban of single-use bags, the shift from plastic film to alternative bags resulted in a nearly 3x increase in plastic consumption for bags," Freedonia Custom Research (FCR), a business research division for MarketResearch.com, reported in a study published this month.
New Jersey implemented a ban on single-use plastic bags in 2022, the strictest ban on bags in the nation at the time, billing it as an effort to cut back on the plastic one-use bags piling up in landfills."
In the meantime...2 years later...it's not working.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
"Plastic consumption in New Jersey spiked by nearly three times following the state’s implementation of a strict ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, a study found.
"Following New Jersey’s ban of single-use bags, the shift from plastic film to alternative bags resulted in a nearly 3x increase in plastic consumption for bags," Freedonia Custom Research (FCR), a business research division for MarketResearch.com, reported in a study published this month.
New Jersey implemented a ban on single-use plastic bags in 2022, the strictest ban on bags in the nation at the time, billing it as an effort to cut back on the plastic one-use bags piling up in landfills."
The bag I have from Shoprite says 250 uses will save itself in plastic. So assuming I go to the grocery once a week, always use my bad, I will have positive in saving plastic after 5 years for one bag.
The way i read it is that 1 purchased bag is equal to 5 years worth of plastic bags.
Now stores don't like people bringing their bags with them, apparently they are being used to steal things. They also got rid of all the baskets. Any NJ politician who pledges to end this nonsense has my vote.
IMO, if Grocery stores want to stop theft then get rid of self service checkouts!
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