News: California bans plastic grocery bags - Page 3

SupahBass05

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Originally posted by OprahIsBlack

HOW THE **** IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO CHARGE PEOPLE FOR BAGS WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SO OUTRAGEOUSLY POOR IN THIS RECESSION????

Jesus damn Christ.

Drag. What an annoying law tbh. It's a hassle if you forget your re-usable bags.

Vulps

Not a full-blown meltdown over a couple of cents.

BTrisc

I knew I would come in to find people defending plastic bags.

Any cost that's incurred by using other bagging materials will likely be offset by the reduction of plastic waste. Especially
when canvas bags are reusable and cheap, there's no excuse for consumers to be so reliant on plastic bags.

The health of our already degraded environment is worth a minute portion of our earnings, no?

MusicTalker

Why all 50 states haven't done this yet is beyond me.

BTrisc

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Originally posted by SupahBass05

Drag. What an annoying law tbh. It's a hassle if you forget your re-usable bags.

Your small hassle >>> The health of our environment?

I'm sure this change comes along with long-term cost reduction.

Wafflecakes

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Originally posted by BTrisc

I knew I would come in to find people defending plastic bags.

Any cost that's incurred by using other bagging materials will likely be offset by the reduction of plastic waste. Especially
when canvas bags are reusable and cheap, there's no excuse for consumers to be so reliant on plastic bags.

The health of our already degraded environment is worth a minute portion of our earnings, no?

I don't disagree with the goal. Just the means.

Sure it will offset some tax costs (mostly paid by the rich), while cost a few pennies at grocery stores (mostly paid by the poor).

What they SHOULD do is ban them, but require grocery stores to not charge for bags. Better yet they could offer tax incentives to stores to stop using them.... paid by an extra tax on junk food producers.

BTrisc

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Originally posted by Waffles O'Brien

I don't disagree with the goal. Just the means.

Sure it will offset some tax costs (mostly paid by the rich), while cost a few pennies at grocery stores (mostly paid by the poor).

What they SHOULD do is ban them, but require grocery stores to not charge for bags. Better yet they could offer tax incentives to stores to stop using them.... paid by an extra tax on junk food producers.

I agree with everything you said. I also believe that the current measure is better than sticking with the
conventional use of plastic bags, though. Consider this a step in the right direction I guess.

hooky

My family uses store plastic bags for our bathroom trashcans and cleaning the litterboxes tho

At least it will be like 20 years before Indiana passes this.

But honestly, it wouldn't be that much of a difference. Paper bags would work better for the litterboxes anyway since we already have to use 2 plastic bags due to the thinness. IDK what to do about the trashcans though without getting them filthy.

BTrisc

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Originally posted by hooky

My family uses store plastic bags for our bathroom trashcans and cleaning the litterboxes tho

At least it will be like 20 years before Indiana passes this.

But honestly, it wouldn't be that much of a difference. Paper bags would work better for the litterboxes anyway since we already have to use 2 plastic bags due to the thinness. IDK what to do about the trashcans though without getting them filthy.

You can buy trash bags that are specially made for small wastebaskets. If you're dead set on inexpensive solutions,
then you could just put a small canvas/burlap sack in the wastebasket and wash it whenever it gets gross.

The small convenience isn't really worth the laundry list of negative attributes, tbh.

hooky

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Originally posted by BTrisc

You can buy trash bags that are specially made for small wastebaskets. If you're dead set on inexpensive solutions,
then you could just put a small canvas/burlap sack in the wastebasket and wash it whenever it gets gross.

The small convenience isn't really worth the laundry list of negative attributes, tbh.

Yeah, the problem is that they're probably like at least 50 cents each

Reusing the bags by throwing the trash in the main trash bag would probably help offset the cost though. Could start doing that right now actually.

rivers

At my work, we started to just automatically bag people's food in paper unless the customer tells us specifically that they want plastic. It's removed a significant amount of plastic use so it's a start. Plus it's one less question to ask customers. "Do you want paper or plastic?"