Ah, but there might be better solutions.
Like I say I already have bags in my car. I can remember my canvas
Trader Joe's bag for some reason. I love to take it into other stores.
In fact one of the locals cracked up when I mentioned taking a
competitors bag into a store. The nearby market gave me a free long
lasting bag and the city handed out similar bags at a gathering in the
park a few months back. Of course the big bags the stores were handing
out today are intended to be reused when shopping even though they are
just a bigger version of usual kind. Obviously they want to encourage
you to buy more and reusing a small bag won't do that. The Trader Joe's
bag is actually on the small side. The ones that were given out free
are larger.
The other problem will be for take out at places. Are they going to
charge you 10 cents for a small bag to put your chicken sandwich and
fries in? Bringing in a reusable bag might bring some worried looks
from health department inspectors.
Of course we all know that northern Europeans are perfect and very PC.
Well, actually they're not as I've watched enough movies and TV shows
from those countries to know better. :-D
On 12/31/2014 01:13 PM, TurquoiseBee [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/I'm just going to comment on the WTF-ness of this rant for me.
/*
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/*
*/I live in Europe, and have for some years. During most of those
years I have neither had nor needed an automobile. Instead, I go out
onto the streets -- via foot or bicycle -- and buy the things I need.
To carry these things home, I always travel with a couple of large,
sturdy cloth bags, stored in the backpack I carry with me everywhere. /*
*/
/*
*/This means that when I go to a store and buy shit and they ask me,
"Do you need a bag?" I can smile and say "No." For Dutch people this
ability to say "No" is a big deal because if you say "Yes" they
actually charge you money for the shitty, non-reusable plastic bags
they give you. /*
*/
/*
*/Don't like to carry around your own recyclable or reusable bags?
Fine. Just don't bitch about more sensible people wanting to charge
you for your attitude./*
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*From:* "Bhairitu [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
*To:* FairfieldLife <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:16 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Plastic bag apocalypse
Today shopping I was given BIG plastic bags I didn't even know the
stores had. They usually have one smaller size. The reason? Starting
tomorrow plastic bags are banned in this burg as they will be in other
locations around here and maybe even in your burg. I'm on the fence
about this one. For one thing these laws were often passed without a
vote of the public. Just the city councils deciding they know what's
best for us and wanting to keep up with "the Jones" on other city
councils have passed these. Needless to say the plastics industry is up
in arms about and there is a petition for recall of the law.
I've long had bags in my car I could use but often I would just walk
into a store without them and often all I was getting was one thing or
two which I could carry out without a bag. Thing is the plastic grocery
bags are recyclable material and the stores provided bins where you
could return them. Apparently this law is due to a few loop heads who
just throw them in the trash.
These bags came about because environmentalists were complaining about
the cutting down of trees for grocery bags (though much of them were
made from recycled paper). But starting tomorrow if you need a bag you
can pay 10 cents for a paper bag. Bet lots of checkout lines will be
held up as someone on principle runs out to their car to get a bag
rather than pay 10 cents. Perhaps every shopping center should put up
big flashing signs saying "don't forget your bag!"
