100%!!! but the RATS feel good about themselves cause they are Doing Something... doesn't matter what the murder rate is, lets just do something even if it's stooopidWhat are old people going to do. Plastic bags are easy to deal with, paper bags, not so much. A lot more unwieldy, and larger. Old people are screwed. They can’t carry large paper bags or reusable cloth bags easily. And cloth bags are breeding grounds for bacteria.
Why can’t an entrepreneur sell plastic bags on line? Make ‘em with a digital printer thingy.
100%!!! but the RATS feel good about themselves cause they are Doing Something... doesn't matter what the murder rate is, lets just do something even if it's stooopidAs you pointed out, reusing paper or cloth bags is a health hazard. It has been documented that the reuse of these bags when food shopping has led to some deaths from contaminated food. The bacteria collected in these bags will lead to serious health problems if the food you are going to eat comes in contact with it, as they surely will. It is much healthier to use plastic bags.
Gee. I don’t know how my grandmother got by for so long without plastic bags. She didn’t drive. She would walk the mile or two to the grocery store and then purchase what she wanted for the day. Then she would carry her paper sack full of groceries home. It kept her in good physical condition. If she needed more than one bag of groceries, she waited for my aunt to take her shopping. I always loved walking with her because the street between her house and the grocery was so interesting. Great men had lived there and had helped to shape the country into the super power it became. But those men lived in times in which the government did not regulate what bags people could use. And government did not declare all kinds of plants illegal. And everything these men did was about coming up with solutions to puzzles. And my little ole 8th grade educated grandmother made sure I learned about these great men and their dreams and hard work.
Sorry to get carried away with my nostalgia. :-)
What did old people do before the introduction of plastic bags? Paper bags have been around a whole lot longer. Most city folks, young and old, use shopping carts to transport their groceries.
I’m old. We are not stupid and we grew up with paper bags.
I’ll just put the paper bags in a very large tote that I have. If I have more groceries I’ll carry an extra tote. There are also paper shopping bags available.
No problem.
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