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   Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago

   The spirit of the law . . .
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   Agent54 said, 6 months ago

   That is just plain silly, I use my plastic shopping bags to line the little trash buckets – instead of throwing them away and going out to buy little trash bag liners. That I need anyway,
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   Prof danglais said, 6 months ago

   Well over here, we actually pay for those canvas bags, this gives one an incentive to continue reusing them.
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   x_Tech said, 6 months ago

   I have my groceries delivered and I return the plastic bags back to the store for recycling. But the other day with my delivery the driver gave my a complimentary reusable cloth/canvas bag…

   
   …for which I have no use.
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   cdward said, 6 months ago

   I actually use the reusable bags. Not always – sometimes I get the little plastic bags (which I do use for waste basket liners). What I like is, there’s less clutter since I could never use as many plastic bags as I used to get at the store.
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   Jane from Florida said, 6 months ago

   The environmentalists want us to feel guilty for using plastic bags.
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   pschearer said, 6 months ago

   How’s this for an idea?… Industrial-scale mulching of landfill material into artificial soil. Imagine huge cargo ships transporting it to all the countries that would give their first-born for even an inch of topsoil to grow food in.
   

   
   And before someone complains about heavy metals, fifty years ago the great author on the economy of cities Jane Jacobs predicted mining of landfills to recover valuable materials. What technology messes up, technology can fix.
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   sleeepy2 said, 6 months ago

   @Prof danglais

   We pay for them here as well.
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   Dani Rice said, 6 months ago

   We have a gazillion cloth bags, and sometimes when I am standing in line at the store I’ll turn around and give a couple to the person behind me. We get anywhere from 3 to 5 cents credit for each bag we use, so it’s foolish not to.
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    treesareus said, 6 months ago

    You pay for the plastic bags…and everything else associated with the store where you do business. As to the cloth bags, the ones I’ve seen don’t last all that long, take more resources to make and more room in the landfill, so they are not “green”.
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    jbolty said, 6 months ago

    Unless you are washing the clothnbags regularly you are risking food contamination.
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    Wolf Emperor said, 6 months ago

    I love my new cloth shopping bags with a winking smiley face on them. It’s not that I have a problem with plastic bags; it’s just I like the way these look and feel, and they’re more personal. I still use plastic bags if I forget to bring my bags to the store. I know they won’t last forever, but they’re holding up great because they’re new.
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    LeRoy Widdison said, 6 months ago

    I was offered a reusable bag for a buck as an alternative to the plastic bags. I also noticed it was woven of plastic fibers – maybe recycled shopping bags?
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    Susan Kruckemeyer said, 6 months ago

    I make bags out of used feed sacks. Horse, chicken, dog, cat, etc. Just use them, wash them out and throw them away when the fall apart, like you usually do while they are still perfectly good. Baaad environmentalists! Can’t believe they want you to not use those awful plastic bags!
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    joe waskiewicz said, 6 months ago

    Ahh… think the joke is, when you have dogs the plastic bags are used to pick up the messes. Hence the bags get thrown into the trash.
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