Ban on Single Use Plastic bags:2021

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Nice thought, Breezy but not likely to happen. If anything the disposable culture is accelerating as more and more cheaply made products appear on the shelves. One only has to look at the current crop of printers. When it is by far cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy the ink - it leaves little room for decision. Thus I now have a total of four printers - in their original boxes stored in my shed. I have no idea what will become of them but I refuse to surrender a perfectly good machine to a landfill. A friend of mine just purchased a new laser printer simply because his last one stopped communicating with his computer and no amount of technical input from Staples technicians helped. What a frickin' waste.
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what a waste: Indeed. Faster, cheaper manufacturing with plastics also reduces the quality of the items as well. They don' t last as long.......and are not meant to.

But if we address the plastic bags......(grocery etc.) seriously......it would be a good start

Bring your won bag .......kinda thing that many are doing now.I like the fact that most stores now ask if one NEEDS a bag and '/or charges for them ( at least where I reside)
 
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what a waste: Indeed. Faster, cheaper manufacturing with plastics also reduces the quality of the items as well. They don' t last as long.......and are not meant to.

But if we address the plastic bags......(grocery etc.) seriously......it would be a good start

Bring your won bag .......kinda thing that many are doing now.I like the fact that most stores now ask if one NEEDS a bag and '/or charges for them ( at least where I reside)
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Yes back in the sixties a big insult was to be called plastic , yet our whole population bought into it . Heck we even thought we could save the trees by using plastic .
 
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Yes back in the sixties a big insult was to be called plastic , yet our whole population bought into it . Heck we even thought we could save the trees by using plastic .
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What were "we" thinking?? ;-)
 
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Yes back in the sixties a big insult was to be called plastic , yet our whole population bought into it . Heck we even thought we could save the trees by using plastic .
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But at least we use the plastic trees they cut down at Christmas, so it isn't a total waste.
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Also, I kind of enjoy those astro turf fields after they clear cut them...good place to do baseball and drink beer.
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
what a waste: Indeed. Faster, cheaper manufacturing with plastics also reduces the quality of the items as well. They don' t last as long.......and are not meant to.

But if we address the plastic bags......(grocery etc.) seriously......it would be a good start

Bring your won bag .......kinda thing that many are doing now.I like the fact that most stores now ask if one NEEDS a bag and '/or charges for them ( at least where I reside)
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I've been using cloth bags for all my shopping for over a decade now. Not only are they easier on the hands then the the plastic bags when full, mine have flat bottoms so products aren't falling over and squishing each other. I have cloth freezer bags that keep things cool till I get home - great for produce and for items like ice cream.
 
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I've been using cloth bags for all my shopping for over a decade now. Not only are they easier on the hands then the the plastic bags when full, mine have flat bottoms so products aren't falling over and squishing each other. I have cloth freezer bags that keep things cool till I get home - great for produce and for items like ice cream.
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Good for you.
 
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Mowich said:
I've been using cloth bags for all my shopping for over a decade now. Not only are they easier on the hands then the the plastic bags when full, mine have flat bottoms so products aren't falling over and squishing each other. I have cloth freezer bags that keep things cool till I get home - great for produce and for items like ice cream.
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What do you use when you buy more items than your bags can carry?
 
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