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Honestly, I don't mind that much. If I go on my shopping trips, I usually have my reusable bags already in the car and some in the house. Sometimes though I stop at a store unexpectedly (walking around) and then I wouldn't have the bag---not all shopping trips are planned in advance.
The only thing I do not like putting into reusable bags would be meat.
Trader Joes became just paper awhile ago... Im against charging per bag... It does slow up the checkout process cause of seniors and people who cant count
I don’t care about the environmental impact of the bags I bought. I’d rather pay a private company that the city hates (Amazon) than give up even $.30 a shopping trip.
It is just an inconvenience and a 'feel good' legislation, but it does absolutely nothing about the environment. Most plastic bags (like 99%) in the oceans are not coming from the US. There are places in India, Bangladesh, and sub-Saharan Africa that literally have rivers of plastic flowing into the ocean.
I wonder how much $hit people will be willing to put up with until they rebel. I wish the state Republicans would get their act together and challenge the status quo.
I wonder how much $hit people will be willing to put up with until they rebel. I wish the state Republicans would get their act together and challenge the status quo.
Considering NYS is losing people at a record rate, most people are voting with their feet.
Geez, you people are young. There were no plastic bags at grocery stores until the 1980s. Hell, there weren't any plastic garbage bags, either. You put the garbage into the brown paper bags you got at the grocery store and when the bag was full, you put it into your galvanized metal garbage can. Just forty years ago, folks.
Now we know there are mile-square rafts of plastic shyt floating in the oceans. We see bags waving from trees everywhere. We see these sad stories of animals choked or suffocated by plastic in the woods and water. Oopsie.
The whole plastic thing isn't a good idea except if you own stock in a chemical company that makes plastic bags.
Yeah, I get the whole kitty litter thing. My cat moved to Canada last year, and you take your own bags to the store, buy bags there for 5 or 10 cents, or take a cardboard box from the front of the store, so I hoard my bags in Jersey to take up there for the litter.
I remember the paper bag days. They were only marginally usefully and highly annoying. Plastic was a HUGE improvement.
The chemical companies need to figure out how to keep the useful and cheap, but them break down fairly quickly into something innocuous if they're exposed to the elements.
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Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801
Geez, you people are young. There were no plastic bags at grocery stores until the 1980s. Hell, there weren't any plastic garbage bags, either. You put the garbage into the brown paper bags you got at the grocery store and when the bag was full, you put it into your galvanized metal garbage can. Just forty years ago, folks.
Now we know there are mile-square rafts of plastic shyt floating in the oceans. We see bags waving from trees everywhere. We see these sad stories of animals choked or suffocated by plastic in the woods and water. Oopsie.
The whole plastic thing isn't a good idea except if you own stock in a chemical company that makes plastic bags.
Yeah, I get the whole kitty litter thing. My cat moved to Canada last year, and you take your own bags to the store, buy bags there for 5 or 10 cents, or take a cardboard box from the front of the store, so I hoard my bags in Jersey to take up there for the litter.
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