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Old 03-15-2010, 04:23 PM
 
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Oh, how I hate plastic shopping bags....I wish they would ban them!

Not once, but three times, I've sucked one up into my boat's cooling system. The sea water intake strainers usually catch then, but sometimes they'll get in there in such a way that water flow is reduced enough to cause an engine to overheat. Nothing ruins a day on the water like having an engine warning buzzer go off and having to go down into a hot engine room to clear a strainer. And heaven forbid that the warning system malfunctions...and you fry a $50,000 diesel engine!

I have actually seen plastic shopping bags floating 200 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean....ban them!
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Old 03-15-2010, 04:47 PM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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Oh, how I hate plastic shopping bags....I wish they would ban them!

Not once, but three times, I've sucked one up into my boat's cooling system. The sea water intake strainers usually catch then, but sometimes they'll get in there in such a way that water flow is reduced enough to cause an engine to overheat. Nothing ruins a day on the water like having an engine warning buzzer go off and having to go down into a hot engine room to clear a strainer. And heaven forbid that the warning system malfunctions...and you fry a $50,000 diesel engine!

I have actually seen plastic shopping bags floating 200 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean....ban them!
That is horrible! I totally agree....plastic bags are unnecessary (of course I find some kind of enviromentally sound poop picker upper bags )
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Old 03-15-2010, 05:45 PM
 
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Good topic.... Even bought nice Fair Trade reusable bags online. My colleague was saving her newspaper bags for me for dog poo. Then it got overwhelming and I had too many plastic bags! Recycled the excess. Hope they will be banned eventually. That floating island of trash in the Pacific is composed mainly of plastic. Plastics harm wildlife; maybe they don't ever biodegrade.
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Old 03-15-2010, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Old 03-15-2010, 06:11 PM
 
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I just wear pants with lots and lots of pockets
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Old 03-15-2010, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Orange Hunt Estates, W. Springfield
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Don't get plastic grocery bags just to pick up dog poop, buy poop bags that decompose over time, which is even more eco-friendly than "recycling" the grocery bags.
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Old 03-16-2010, 06:16 AM
 
Location: Richmond, VA
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The problem with buying poop bags is they are expensive! They are around $10 and when you have a large dog like mine that goes 4 times a day, that gets really expensive!
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Old 03-16-2010, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Central Maine
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It's been several months now since DC started the bag tax and northern Virginia grocery stores started a gentle campaign pushing customers to bring their own bags. Any opinions on how that's working so far? I see the bags at Wegman's. They're really cute, but so far I haven't seen anyone using them. I like the idea and actually have a few bags at home but I keep forgetting them... I wonder if that's what's happening to most people?

opinions? What have the rest of you seen? Does the program seem to be working?
We have reusable bags from Safeway (red), Giant (green), and Wegmans (black). We use the Wegmans bags every week. We used to use the Safeway and Giant bags (we started many years ago), but now we do 95% of our grocery shopping at Wegmans.

I've seen other people using the bags at Wegmans, but most people seem to still be using plastic.
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Old 03-16-2010, 07:37 AM
 
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Having participated several times in the annual Potomac watershed clean-up (scheduled this year for Saturday, April 10), I can't begin to count how many plastic bags I've picked up out of streams and adjoining areas. Virginia should follow DC's lead and charge 5 cents a bag.
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Old 03-16-2010, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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I LOVE the reusable bags at the giants with the handheld scanning devices (where you scan the item before you put it in your cart, and don't have to scan again at checkout). I set them up in my cart and they stay up, and I can pack them extra full. The trader joe's ones are the best--they are more of a plastic than fabric, so they're sturdier.

I don't see them much in the regular grocery stores, but at the super-awesome-giants (as I have begun referring to them as) they are pretty common place.
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