Posted on 02/08/2011 5:01:27 PM PST by matt04
If you don't bring your own bag when you shop for groceries, it could cost you a nickel for every disposable plastic or paper bag you fill.
State lawmakers from the Environment Committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss a bill calling for proceeds to be collected to go toward municipal recycling programs.
Reusable bags, bags used to cover dry cleaning and those used to protect delivered newspapers would be exempt from the fee.
People on food stamps would also not be charged.
I don’t recall paper bags doing that at all. But some grocery stores did use cheaper thinner ones. Plastic bags always collapse. 100% of the time.
I do. I worked as a bagboy at a grocery store while in high school.
I worked as a bag boy for a couple of weeks too. I have also bought groceries for nearly 40 years. Paper bags are far superior at holding their shape. Not a high bar to hurdle since plastic bags don’t hold their shape at all.
People on food stamps (and seniors on Social Security) should be charged double.
Store owners didn't make this ridiculous law, why punish them?
Did you also sleep in a Holiday Inn? No problem. I just tie the bags at the top. Much neater than having to refill toppled paper bags in the trunk.
Just be sure to spray them with some Lysol... kills the blood etc.. that leaked from the chicken or beef.
No, did you? I think you were the first one to put your experience forward as some kind of reference of knowledge.
I just tie the bags at the top.
That's a PITA. Then you have to cut them off to open them making them useless for anything else. Paper bags can be re-used several times. Besides, at the store I go to they usually fill the plastic bags too full to tie them and I appreciate that they do so that I don't have so many bags to deal with.
For those, like me, who prefer good paper bags they can be purchased online.
Nothing works better than a paper grocery bag for drying herbs.
I keep a cardboard box in my trunk, and set the paper grocery bags in them, keeps them upright so nothing falls out of them on the way home.
I used to do that with my truck but it’s a pain because I always have other things to do with the space that the box gets in the way of.
Who Is John Galt?
Just a heads up, that 5 cents you get for reusable bags will go away soon. Already happening at stores around here. Seems the stores, in trying to cut costs and maximize profits chopped this.
I have never had to cut one off to get it open. Use the right knot. I then use them to carry my lunch to work and in the kitchen and bathroom trash cans.
Knock yourself out. I hate them.
I hate that enviromentalists are making this a law in a lot of places...
but I must say, I like shopping with reusable bags. They hold so much more, I can bring the groceries in from the car with one trip, not 5! I started using mine preemptively before my state can mandate them, so that I don’t feel like I was forced into them, hah.
I wonder if leaving them out in my car when the temperature gets below 20 degrees will kill off the bacteria?
Have you seen receipts for supermarkets when paid for by food stamps? There is almost always a “tax forgiven” amount. The almighty federal govt will not pay these taxes that states have levied on their citizens. Probably for things like soda and candy.
Wait! I thought the paper bags were killing all the trees so we were supposed to use plastic.
So now I use the plastic bags and reuse them for small trash can liners, cleaning out the litter box, and disposing of dirty diapers. Aren’t I being green? (actually I’m just cheap) But that is bad for the environment too.
So now I’ve got one of those cloth bags that my kids’ school gave me for chairing a PTO committee one year. It’s enormous, but now I’m told it can harbor all sorts of crud from carrying meat and stuff. (actually I use it for library books, toting stuff to the pool during the summer, or other outings, and not groceries)
Maybe I should get one of those baskets for my head and do it like the do in Africa, but I’m sure the gov’t will tell me it’s bad for my back or something.
I’m soooooo confused!!!! ;)
Wash them on the gentle cycle?
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