Reusable Grocery Bags Breed Bacteria Tests Confirm Risk Of Illness( Eco Alert! )

Channel 7, Denver ^ | September 27, 2010 | Theresa Marchetta, Call7 Investigator

[Leisler]

Don't you just love the idea of the dirty hippy bringing their dirty eco bag into the store to spread their filth on the produce?

Paper/plastic=cleanliness

[sinanju]

Fermented chicken juice, mmmmm.

[the invisib1e hand]

so now the greenies can become martyrs, just like the suicide bombers.

[gundog]

A cashier called Lars Larson’s show on Friday to complain about how dirty they are. Said she reached in one once and was bitten by a snake.

[sinanju]

Sticky frozen orange juice concentrate leakage, mmmmm.

[sinanju]

Fermented mashed lettuce and peach smears, mmmmm.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Don’t care much for dirty hippies, but I do like my canvas bags ... I’ve had them since the early 90’s. I wash them every week with the utility towels. They are much larger and sturdier than plastic. Unfortunately, paper bags transfer insects when you live in the hot and humid Deep South. YMMV

[WellyP]

L. L. Bean.....Great bags!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I have two of them. A small one, and a large one. Whenever I do a load of laundry, I just toss them in. No big deal.

[Balding_Eagle]

SO, how much plastic is used to make a one gallon milk container and how many plastic bags could be made from that?

I weighed a milk container, 66 grams. Plastic bag, 4 grams.

To the enviro nazis I say keep using plastic bags but bring your own milk jug

[Leisler]

How do you like buying in a store that lets people bring in their bags, with feces from their floors on it, maybe some MERSA bacteria, and putting in, and taking out, produce, vegetables, products that they decide they don't want?

[max americana]

I just use the plastic bags for garbage disposal afterwards. Im too cheap to buy those big black garbage bags..why do these fn treehuggers want to make my life complicated?

[mass55th]

"L. L. Bean.....Great bags!"

I've got a couple of their canvas bags and love them. If they need cleaning, I just pop them in the washer and then the dryer. One I've probably had for over 20 years!!

[Porterville]

Using reusable bags is hardly a liberal idea. To conserve and not waste is purely conservative. However, I’m not surprised that liberal hippies would have dirty hippy juice all over their things.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I’ve never seen anybody put produce in a canvas bag before they check out and get their groceries bagged, but maybe that’s just my area. Come to think of it, I don’t know a bunch of folks with feces on their floors in the first place, but I live in a small community. Again, I’ll concede that YMMV. I love my canvas bags and have never had a problem related to them in nearly 20 years.

[al baby]

dirty hippy juice

You owe me a keyboard

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Wash reusable bags or wipe them out with a bleach wipe after each use.

No. I want to keep using new plastic bags provided by the grocery store. Environmentalists may prefer a world in which toilets are only occasionally flushed, showers rarely used, phosphates and other substances which aid cleaning are banned, dirty cloth bags are used over and over again, and in general may prefer to wallow in their own filth, but that doesn't mean the rest of us do.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

The only bags in which milk does really well are still attached to the cow ...

[dfwgator]

But that’s ok, the only thing that matters is that people feeeeeel good about using them.

[driftdiver]

Or you could wash the bags

or you could put meats into plastic and reserve the reusable for canned or boxed food.

I like the bags because they hold a lot more which means fewer trips in from the car.