Posted on 09/15/2013 10:02:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was on the island of Kauai earlier this year and they have banned all plastic bags at grocery and department stores. Real bright of them to do so since most customers are tourists who don’t want to buy a bunch of reusable bags!
Hawaii is liberal, isn’t it? So what do you expect?
“My suggestion is the next time you go grocery shopping and someone slaps down their bags which were washed in some former lifetime that they dragged out of their trunk, you ask your grocer to clean the belt before your food starts moving down. Rather be safe than sorry.”
great idea
I have washed reusable bags. The grocery store bags come out okay, but the fabric bags shrink to the point of being unusable. My huge Ikea bag shrunk to the size of a small purse. Also some, even the grocery store ones, come apart at the seams after only a few washings.
I swear, I can buy 5 items at Wal-Mart and come home with six bags...
My preference is the discount store that makes you buy plastic bags or use their free cardboard boxes that stuff comes in. Their customer end up recycling their cardboard waste for free!
Here in Pasadena, we are under the Bag Laws -in ‘an Occupied Territory’ I call it. Next town over, they give out plastic bags freely!!! However, you can buy 2500 plastic bags on Amazon for about $19. I bring them in — “I bet you wonder how I got these contraband items,” I ask the clerks. Some laugh - they hate the Bag Laws. Others act more morally superior.
I have been tempted to sit outside and sell plastic bags at 5 cents per. I cannot STAND the government telling me what can be inMY laundry and dishwasher soaps, how I am to bag my groceries, that I have to use mercury-laden lightbulbs. Who elected these people? And what, please, is their mandate? Is it not - “To provide for the common denfense, to promote the general welfare of ourselves and our posterity?” Turns my stomach.
I was in a Loews in Austin last week without knowing they didn’t offer bags. So I have about 30 pieces of merchandise and nothing to carry it in. I asked the guy why they sold all these small plumbing pieces wrapped in individual plastic wrappers yet condemned the use of a couple extra very thin bags to carry them in. Idiot just smirked at me like I was blasphemous.
Modern technology has progressed to the point that I sometimes think these little weigh-nothing bags are only the thickness of a molecule or something... stronger than hell tensile strength, death sentence from something sharp.
I find it impossible to believe they are the #1 bane of our refuse disposition problem. I call shenanigans, myself.
If these liberals want to go after something, go after these supposedly eco-friendly packages that cost more energy to produce, waste valuable time and cost so much to ‘recycle’....pure BS.
I never could figure out the best answer to “paper or plastic”.
Unless you wash and disinfect those fabric bags your are bringing Typhoid Mary or the equivalent each time you shop...
What about those little bags for the veggies and stuff? Are they banned too?
1. Senior Code Compliance Officer
2. Manager of the Code Compliance Division
3. Long Range and Mobility Planning Manager
4. President and CEO of Green Seal
5. Director Local Government Relations
These are the kinds of jobs people have when the world's capacity to produce things far exceeds our ability to consume them. In other words, these are the fruits of a society whose people don't have to work very hard to enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of mankind.
When you don't have anything of substance to offer potential customers and clients, you just find your way into a position where you harass the sh!t out of them.
Austin TX has the ban too
I actually prefer using my own bags which I of course keep clean. I’m sure they’re still far from sterile but I operate under the concept that a little dirt is good for us. Anyway, I got sick of those grocery store bags getting thinner and weaker so I invested in a good set of reusables. After toting kids back and forth with groceries tumbling out of cheap plastic bags half way to the car, they are worth the investment. Requiring them via Big Gov mandate though? No way.
Come to think of it, I have never seen shopping bags at Lowes, but then people don’t normally small items like that. That said, the guy was rude to you and you should have reported him to the management.
Awful idea.
I say bring on the germs! Have your kid lick the conveyor, while you are at it... and consider it a free vaccination (that won’t cause ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism, or mercury poisoning) and help build an immunity now.
Similarly, you should expose your kids to the virulent strain of Leftist Rhetoric early in their development... allow them to identify and treat the contagion so that they are not infected by the time they are able to vote.
It’s a matter of Public Health. Think of the children!
“Everyone needs to eat a pack of dirt before they die”
I call Lysenkoism.
“One of the major delusions of the neo-feudalistic social system known as Marxist-Leninism is the notion that the authorities have the power to change nature.” Also see Globull Warming.
Simply bring in a stack of 5 gallon plastic pails and slam them down on the counter for the cashier to fill.
Then load them on your flat cart stolen from Home Depot. Clog up the whole front of the store while doing this.
Do I need to put the tag in?
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