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Time in and time again we keep hearing about the horrible tragedies of plastic bags, such as the Valdez, Alaska incident in 1989 where millions of birds, walruses, and other animals were suffocated by them.
The consumer in me says that paying higher prices just to shop because of the increase in costs due to the bags is not worth it. However, the environmentalist in me tells me that if we can even save one seagull from suffocation, it would all be worth it. We are all on this planet together, it is time to start treating Earth the way Earth wants us to treat her, with respect.
Places like Aldi's have bags you can buy that are reusable and only cost 40 bucks per bag, a pretty cheap price compared to the steep price of killing off the entire population of our Earth's animal population to death.
I'm not sure if downright banning can be a solution. Discouraging (and minimizing) use, however, is a different story. My weekly grocery rarely includes more than one plastic bag and that has been the case for a few years. And the one bag that comes home is primarily to wrap meat/seafood. Every vehicle in the household has 2-3 re-usable bags.
Time in and time again we keep hearing about the horrible tragedies of plastic bags, such as the Valdez, Alaska incident in 1989 where millions of birds, walruses, and other animals were suffocated by them.
The consumer in me says that paying higher prices just to shop because of the increase in costs due to the bags is not worth it. However, the environmentalist in me tells me that if we can even save one seagull from suffocation, it would all be worth it. We are all on this planet together, it is time to start treating Earth the way Earth wants us to treat her, with respect.
Places like Aldi's have bags you can buy that are reusable and only cost 40 bucks per bag, a pretty cheap price compared to the steep price of killing off the entire population of our Earth's animal population to death.
Ya serious? The most questionable item here is the supposed $40 bag at Aldi's.
Places like Aldi's have bags you can buy that are reusable and only cost 40 bucks per bag, a pretty cheap price compared to the steep price of killing off the entire population of our Earth's animal population to death.
49 bucks? You can't be serious! Our stores have really nice, sturdy bags for a dollar.
We should not ban plastic bags. I always recycled mine, used them for trash bags and the like. Now I buy plastic for the garbage cans and to pick up dog poop. The only thing a ban did is make me buy plastic bags.
Btw, reusable grocery bags carry lots of germs and are causing people to get sick.
49 bucks? You can't be serious! Our stores have really nice, sturdy bags for a dollar.
But it's an "Aldi's bag"
Are you aware that these new types of reusable bags with that strange type of material is the same material used for feed bags ?
Some folks are turning their empty feed bags into reusble bags and they look quite nice.
I just might get into that myself. The 50lb sacks make nice bags and that is true "reuse" isn't it ?
We should not ban plastic bags. I always recycled mine, used them for trash bags and the like. Now I buy plastic for the garbage cans and to pick up dog poop. The only thing a ban did is make me buy plastic bags.
Btw, reusable grocery bags carry lots of germs and are causing people to get sick.
Yep.
Since I have to carry my groceries quite a distance, I always request plastic because plastic bags have handles. The grocery store I use has paper, but will use plastic upon request. Then the baggers have to go find them. I'll wait. I can't carry big, heavy paper bags without handles.
I've been reading this forum for one day and it is telling-and pretty sad-that before I opened this thread I thought it was going to be another gun thread...
Anyway, I just moved to Philadelphia and a lot of places make you buy bags if you don't bring your own and they are paper instead of plastic.
We should not ban plastic bags. I always recycled mine, used them for trash bags and the like. Now I buy plastic for the garbage cans and to pick up dog poop. The only thing a ban did is make me buy plastic bags.
Btw, reusable grocery bags carry lots of germs and are causing people to get sick.
There's a new invention out. It's called soap and water. Perhaps you've heard of it?
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The most questionable item here is the supposed $40 bag at Aldi's.
