10 States have BANNED retailers from offering disposable PLASTIC BAGS but paper is ok

Bigdog said:
"First day of plastic bag ban in Pittsburgh ‘no big deal’ for most shoppers

On the first morning of Pittsburgh’s ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, Betina Stamper pushed her cart through a Giant Eagle parking lot loaded with loose groceries. When she gets to her nearby North Side home, she said, she’d haul in the supplies, most packaged in plastic, in her arms.

“I think [the ban on bags] is a bit much, considering all the other things in plastic that we’re not getting rid of,” she said Saturday. “Plastic bottles, plastic containers. [They’re] saying get rid of the bags, that’s the most important thing that’s in the garbage. And it’s not.”

Delayed since 2021, the Pittsburgh bag ban is part of a slow-moving nationwide trend away from the free distribution of shopping bags."

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/...shopping-bags-pittsburgh/stories/202310140068
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This is just fascism again. The stores don't want to charge for the bags. It hurts their sales.
 
Althea said:
NY has a plastic shopping bag ban, and charges if you want paper. If someone is too stupid to own cloth shopping bags, then they can simply pile loose groceries in their trunk.

We used to have hundreds of plastic bags in the house. We did use them for disposing of cat litter, but quite often cashiers would double the bags for heavy items.

Cloth bags are the answer.
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No, they are not. They are expensive and unsanitary.
 
Althea said:
I don't buy water, I don't drink soda or juice, but I agree. Bottles are an issue, even with the deposit. I don't believe this nation truly recycles anymore since our trade war with China came with a big FUCK YOU regarding them taking our garbage.

I still separate my plastic/paper and recycle, but at the curb it all seems to go into the same truck. I don't believe them when they tell me they recycle.

If something spills in the bag I'll rinse them out. Long before our state banned the plastic, I had purchased a couple of cloth bags just for the hell of it. I was in the 'As Seen On T.V' store in the mall, and they were cheap. They have plastic clips that allow you to attach it to the sides of your shopping cart, holding it wide open.
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China doesn't take our garbage. It is put in landfills right here in the good 'ole' USA.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I haven't been apprised of the proposed work around,
but if it involves bringing your own bags shopping,
convenience is obviously not being considered a priority.

All of these ecological crises wouldn't have occurred if population
started being governmentally controlled after WWII,
regardless of how Draconian the measures had to be.

I don't have enough time left to worry about the planet.
It should be understandable that for me, my personal convenience will always be the priority.

If others think that the planet is still salvageable,
then it's understandable that they won't agree with me.

Having plastic bags would be better than having eight billion fucking people clogging the planet.
That's my point in the most direct terms.
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You can reduce the population by killing yourself. Go ahead.
 
Nomad said:
Most city and county waste dept recycling programs will not take plastic bags in their recycle bins.

If you want them recycled, you have to take them to a grocery store and unfortunately, fewer and fewer of them are participating anymore.

Plastic is destroying the environment.
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Plastic isn't destroying anything.
 
LurchAddams said:
Next time you go fishing at a Texas lake, enjoy all the plastic grocery bags floating and blowing around everywhere.
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I live near the Chesapeake Bay. And I am tired of all your empty water bottles.

Bottled water should be banned just for being a scam. The bottles are a major pollutant and it's an elitist virtual signal like an EV or a plastic bag ban.

Teach children NOT to LITTER.
 
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Nomad said:
I use my recycle bin, redneck dumbfuck.



I bet your mother isn't.

As much shit as comes out of a big, fat infant like you, she'd be constantly doing laundry.
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You should eat more disposable diapers, Somad.

Back to cloth bags and cloth diapers. Do it for the planet.


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Dec 31, 2016 — An estimated 20 billion disposable diapers are added to landfills throughout the country each year, creating about 3.5 million tons of waste."
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Everybody knows that I don't, either,
so I don't bother pretending.:cool:
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Well, I on occasion get to the point where I just throw my hands in the air and say "Fuck it!!! What's the use? It's all fucked anyway, so why torture myself worrying about it? Besides, about 50,000 years or so after mankind destroys itself, nature will have reclaimed everything and healed all the damage we did anyway, so it's all cool."

But I just can't let it go to the point where I don't care at all anymore and stop trying to recycle everything I can and keep my carbon footprint down as low as possible, etc, etc.

I don't think I could ever profess to anyone what you just did.

That I don't give a shit about it.

If for no other reason than how it affects wildlife and makes animals sick and suffer.

That's just cold ass shit.
 
Nomad said:
Well, I on occasion get to the point where I just throw my hands in the air and say "Fuck it!!! What's the use? It's all fucked anyway, so why torture myself worrying about it? Besides, about 50,000 years or so after mankind destroys itself, nature will have reclaimed everything and healed all the damage we did anyway, so it's all cool."

But I just can't let it go to the point where I don't care at all anymore and stop trying to recycle everything I can and keep my carbon footprint down as low as possible, etc, etc.

I don't think I could ever profess to anyone what you just did.

That I don't give a shit about it.

If for no other reason than how it affects wildlife and makes animals sick and suffer.

That's just cold ass shit.
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Carbon isn't a 'footprint'. Carbon does not make animals sick and suffer.
 
Bigdog said:
I live near the Chesapeake Bay. And I am tired of all your empty water bottles.

Bottled water should be banned just for being a scam. The bottles are a major pollutant and it's an elitist virtual signal like an EV or a plastic bag ban.

Teach children NOT to LITTER.
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I'm not opposed to that. It's not just children who litter. The plastic bag situation is much worse - blowing around lakes and rivers, stuck in trees and bushes.

Now having said all that - I reuse plastic bags when I go shopping. They have not been banned in my state, but if you don't bring your own/used ones when you shop all stores charge you for new ones. When they become too degraded to use again, they go in the recycling bin.

Does that make me a hypocrite? I hope not.
 
I went to an Aldi Grocery store once!

I filled up my shopping cart up about half way.

I went to check out, and after I checked out, the cashier said I needed to start bagging up my own groceries, and told me they did not provide any bags, and that I needed to provide me own bags.

I said, "No Thanks", turned and walked away, did not pay, and never went back!

Then I went to a real grocery store- One that was a little more service oriented.
 
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