Plastic bags

[sailaway21]

I was listening to the radio today, the public radio station if you can believe it, and the topic was revolving aropund Annapolis banning plastic grocery bags. It went on for an hour, about the ecological damage they cause in the Chesapeake Bay, etc.. and the really funny thing was that, at no point, did anyone say, "maybe we ought to work at not dumpin' the damn things in the water!"

I'm getting too old for this stuff. I remember when we were saving trees by using plastic. Then we had to use paper because plastic is forever and is made from oil. Then it turns out that paper doesn't break down in landfills anyway, and plastic takes up less room. Now, it's bring your own bags or something.

Inevitably, there was some gal who called in to tell how she's used the same plastic bags at the grocery for over a year. Jesus wept.

I turned it off long before anything said made sense.

[Valiente]

I'll tell you one thing: I had an overheat on the Atomic 4 one time, so I shut off the engine. About fifty wavelets later, a plastic bag floated off the strainer. I speared the bugger with a gaff hook.

I use cloth bags not because of Mother Earth, but because they sink!

[T37Chef]

sorry but San Fransisco has already accepted the ban , and I believe Chicago, Boston and New York City are not far behind...

http://greenoptions.com/2007/03/31/w...lastic_bag_ban

http://www.livescience.com/environme...icbag_ban.html

http://news.bostonherald.com/localPo...ticleid=196899

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2...astic-bag-ban/

[Sapperwhite]

I think George Carlin said it best when he said, "pack your s#!t folks, we're going away."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

[eryka]

I HATE this 'reason' for my town to have media attention!

In Europe & the Middle East, there are no bags, paper or plastic, in the grocery stores. You carry your own canvas or net or whatever. Simple, no? I learned this the hard way and ended up bundling my purchases hobo-style in a beach blanket the first time I shopped in Tel Aviv.

[TrueBlue]

I never bother to do it, but my wife ALWAYS brings several canvas boat totes to the market whenever she food-shops. They're much easier to carry than plastic . . . and carrying groceries in paper bags? Forget about it! Anything wet or heavy will punch right through the bottom or tear the sides.

There was a time when we asked the bagger to put paper inside plastic bags - to utilize the plastic handles and make the bags stand upright in the car. That defeated the whole conservation purpose.

[xort]

ever shop costco? no bags at all.
They do have a pile of boxes the goods came in that you can pick through to put your stuff in. 2 or 3 boxes in your cart holds all the small stuff

my pet peave is the plastic packaging in, for example, the hardware store. You have to buy 3 bolts when you need 2 and then you get this plastic that fills the trash. That crap should be banned

[bestfriend]

I put my veggies in a plastic bag and then take them to the check out stand so they can put them in two more plastic bags. And please, mr. bagger, put the gallon of milk in its own bag, because its just too hard to carry by the handle.

[cardiacpaul]

and people wonder why I'm in aisle 9 with a can opener.
I just eat the stuff right there in the store.

They do get a little testy when I break open the mayo, bread and roast beef & cheese, gimme a break, I'm just helpin' the fish-kissin' tree-huggers.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

I never bother to do it, but my wife ALWAYS brings several canvas boat totes to the market whenever she food-shops. They're much easier to carry than plastic . . . and carrying groceries in paper bags? Forget about it! Anything wet or heavy will punch right through the bottom or tear the sides.

There was a time when we asked the bagger to put paper inside plastic bags - to utilize the plastic handles and make the bags stand upright in the car. That defeated the whole conservation purpose.

Reminds me of the first time I visited Hawaii. We'd rented a cottage on Maui so off to the supermarket, reach checkout, "paper or plastic Sir ?" "Oh , says Wombat, paper please" feeling teddibly teddibly righteous, feeling that warm inner glow and it was not just the floozy in the gstring bikini, so the damn checkout chick (oi, wombat you can't say that !!) {edit, sorry} supermarket operative person of indeterminate age , sex and skin colour, packs the groceries up in nice clean recyclable paper bags which she promptly puts into , yep, no $60,000 for you sonny, plastic bags.