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A little more than a year ago our community was told that all the stores would be phasing out plastic bags & on January 1, 2021 they would be phased out completely and people should start to get into the habit of bringing their own bags. I don't have a problem with this, I think it's a great idea.
I just went to our little community board and people are wailing about it! My God. Grown ass adults pissin' & moanin' about plastic bags.
Do your communities have plastic bag rules?
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Reusable bags were banned for a while, due to covid. Now if we bring in reusables, we have to bag our own groceries, which is fine by me
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(01-02-2021, 09:32 AM)cannongal Wrote: Reusable bags were banned for a while, due to covid. Now if we bring in reusables, we have to bag our own groceries, which is fine by me Yeah I thought plastic bags were still banned but I just got a few when I used Instacart to deliver my groceries. When I do my own shopping, I use the reusable bags.
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(01-02-2021, 07:39 AM)Duchess Wrote: A little more than a year ago our community was told that all the stores would be phasing out plastic bags & on January 1, 2021 they would be phased out completely and people should start to get into the habit of bringing their own bags. I don't have a problem with this, I think it's a great idea.
I just went to our little community board and people are wailing about it! My God. Grown ass adults pissin' & moanin' about plastic bags.
Do your communities have plastic bag rules?
Currently as far as I know we can't use the re-usable bags. It is annoying. I have plastic bags stacking up. Good thing I got a cat!
There is one town I visit that has outlawed plastic bags and you get charged .10 per bag if you don't have our own. I will see if I can find the Portlandia clip for you.
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Facemasks are the new roadside trash.
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(01-02-2021, 12:27 PM)MirahM Wrote:
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(01-02-2021, 09:32 AM)cannongal Wrote: Reusable bags were banned for a while, due to covid. Now if we bring in reusables, we have to bag our own groceries, which is fine by me Bagging your own groceries suck. I feel so rushed because they start the next customers order before I finish bagging my groceries so I usually just put the stuff back in the cart and put in the reusable bags when I get to my car.
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They still use plastic bags around here. What I do to save the world is cut up my plastic beer rings so no sea animals get stuck in them, because all the plastic usually ends up in the ocean.
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Your love of sea animals knows no bounds.
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(01-02-2021, 01:24 PM)Clang McFly Wrote: (01-02-2021, 09:32 AM)cannongal Wrote: Reusable bags were banned for a while, due to covid. Now if we bring in reusables, we have to bag our own groceries, which is fine by me Bagging your own groceries suck. I feel so rushed because they start the next customers order before I finish bagging my groceries so I usually just put the stuff back in the cart and put in the reusable bags when I get to my car.
I prefer to bag my own groceries. The fucking idiot old people that market basket hires, can't bag for shit.
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I prefer to do my own as well. I'm always in a hurry, for what I dont know. Having to stand there and watch them bag it up like a turtle drives me crazy.
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(01-02-2021, 01:44 PM)Maggot Wrote: cut up my plastic beer rings so no sea animals get stuck in them
I do too, and I know others who do as well.
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We haven’t had plastic bags at the supermarket for years. Beer comes in cardboard. It’s not that hard.
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(01-02-2021, 01:24 PM)Clang McFly Wrote: (01-02-2021, 09:32 AM)cannongal Wrote: Reusable bags were banned for a while, due to covid. Now if we bring in reusables, we have to bag our own groceries, which is fine by me Bagging your own groceries suck. I feel so rushed because they start the next customers order before I finish bagging my groceries so I usually just put the stuff back in the cart and put in the reusable bags when I get to my car.
San Francisco banned the disposable plastic bags like 5 or 6 years ago.
I just bought a bunch of cheap totes, some of then insulated for cold and hot products, and always kept a bunch in the trunk.
It worked out way better than the crappy plastic ones that always broke anyway and was better for the planet. Win/win.
I still use the totes, though disposable plastic bags remain the norm here in AZ. When Covid hit and the baggers couldn't use my totes, I started having them just put everything in the cart and bagging the stuff in the trunk too.
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Brown paper bags are making a comeback. They can be recycled can be mulched and decompose. They can also be made from recycled trash. I don't even know why we went to plastic.
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I'm on a mission to spread covid and use as much plastic as I possibly can. I dont recycle and I threw that stupid box of face masks I bought in the ocean.
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....but you also love animals........
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