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San Francisco bans plastic grocery bags

SoejckdswgSoejckdswg Member Posts: 338
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261909,00.html

 

don't these guys have better things to do....

 

 

Soejckdswg

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  • NierroNierro Member UncommonPosts: 1,755
    This was thread worthy?



    It's been on my local news for like 2 months.

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  • FlemFlem Member UncommonPosts: 2,870
    Originally posted by Vendayn

    umm...I myself like this idea, whats not to like about it...
    Agreed.  This can only be a good thing.
  • noname12345noname12345 Member Posts: 2,267

    This is great. I use shopping bags that are really durable that I was given at a local supermaket by me. So everytime I go and reuse the bags I get a small discount on my food.

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  • SoejckdswgSoejckdswg Member Posts: 338
    Originally posted by Nierro

    This was thread worthy?



    It's been on my local news for like 2 months.



    yes its thread worthy, and i just ran across it the other day on the news....i work a lot so i don't get into the news as much...

     

    Gelasius

  • SoejckdswgSoejckdswg Member Posts: 338
    Originally posted by Vendayn

    umm...I myself like this idea, whats not to like about it...



    yeah your hard earned tax dollars at work banning grocery bags..its wasteful. our politicians have better things to do then trying to decide if grocery bags are good for the environment or not.

     

    Gelasius

  • desnowdesnow Member Posts: 390
    Originally posted by AlexAmore


    This is great. I use shopping bags that are really durable that I was given at a local supermaket by me. So everytime I go and reuse the bags I get a small discount on my food.
    I use a set of bags made out of the same material as back packs making them strong and washable. A local store around here started offering them for $5 with a coupon for $5 off a $50+ purchase and $0.25 cents off every bill after that for each reusable bag used in place of a disposable. Snapped up a set of 4 for free one day and have been saving $1 an average grocery run since, even more on days where they double that discount. Saving money and less trash in a landfill without any effort.
  • WantsumBierWantsumBier Member Posts: 1,079
    I wish they would do it here in Arizona.  I'm starting to think the Walmart bag is the state flower! They are everywhere!!!!

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  • SoejckdswgSoejckdswg Member Posts: 338
    Originally posted by Nasica

    Originally posted by Soejckdswg

    Originally posted by Vendayn

    umm...I myself like this idea, whats not to like about it...



    yeah your hard earned tax dollars at work banning grocery bags..its wasteful. our politicians have better things to do then trying to decide if grocery bags are good for the environment or not.

     

    Gelasius

    Ive always loved these "Better things to do"

    EVERYONE says that governments have better things to do that X. But no one says how banning X is going to stop the better things to do.

    www.abc.net.au/science/features/bags/default.htm

    thats 6.6billion a year for a country 10% of the population of USA and around 90% of the size.

    thats around 70billion plastic bags used in the USA per year

    Now a plastic bag takes, on estimate, 1,000 years to decompose.

    Thats 70,000,000,000,000 plastic bags, or 70 trillion plastic bags, just in America alone.

    Now imagine this on a global scale, 500billion plastic bags a year, or 500,000,000,000, which works out to be about 500,000,000,000,000 plastic bags if we decide to stop using them this year.

    Perhaps we could put them in your backyard ?



    I remember when i was working in a supermarket, we wernt allowed to give out many plastic bags, the customers hated this, always telling me in the most stern voice "I want to use it as a bin liner, ARNT I ALLOWED TO RECYCLE THEM NOW" I always wished i could explain to them how neither throwing them out and throwing them out with stuff in them is recycling in any shape or form, all it is is tight-ass penny pinching.



    that sounds all good and dandy on paper but it won't happen. this save the world nonsense is a bunch of political BS i can't believe you guys fall for this junk. People are all for "oh my gosh the caraboo boohoo boohoo" all the while we're ramming sharp objects through the skulls of unborn babies in the name "choice".  this kind of stuff makes me sick, whats next filters for our asses so we don't kill ourselves with our own farts.

     

    Gelasius

  • Rikimaru_XRikimaru_X Member UncommonPosts: 11,718
    I know a lot of the older people bring in their own bags and even their last grocery bags which is ok at my job, but plastic grocery bags are usually reused say for putting trash in it, picking up poop, cleaning, etc. I don't know why should that BAN it...unless they are making more durable ones.

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  • noname12345noname12345 Member Posts: 2,267
    Originally posted by Soejckdswg




    that sounds all good and dandy on paper but it won't happen. this save the world nonsense is a bunch of political BS i can't believe you guys fall for this junk. People are all for "oh my gosh the caraboo boohoo boohoo" all the while we're ramming sharp objects through the skulls of unborn babies in the name "choice".  this kind of stuff makes me sick, whats next filters for our asses so we don't kill ourselves with our own farts.
    Gelasius
    I don't see your connection between abortion(is that what you meant?) and San Francisco passing a law protecting the environment and animals. I don't know why you are making such a big fuss seeing as you don't live there and pay taxes there....ever thought that maybe the tax paying citizens of San Francisco wanted a cleaner city and pressured the city? Maybe they got sick of dead marine life everytime they go to the beach. I don't know but they as politicians did their job and cut down pollution therefore making San Francisco a better city.

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  • FlemFlem Member UncommonPosts: 2,870

    All the supermarkets over here (Australia) sell the following bags for $1 as an alternative to plastic.  There are a hell of a lot of people that use them too.  Once you buy a few your set, provided you remember to bring them with you when you go shopping.

  • sh4dowst4lkrsh4dowst4lkr Member Posts: 208
    I think this is great, it'll save some sea creatures. But true some peeps are to obsessed with this piece of news, also you'd think that politicians have made this decision sooner and made large positive impacts in the fields of education, medicine, the military and education.
  • KorususKorusus Member UncommonPosts: 831
    Sucks to be San Fransisco, oh well more plastic bags for the rest of us!   

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  • SamuraiswordSamuraisword Member Posts: 2,111

    Most grocery stores have plastic bag recycle bins. I use mine for dog poop or recycle them.

    What about all the jobs that will be lost by the people who make those bags and recycle them?

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  • DuraheLLDuraheLL Member Posts: 2,951
    ... the small important facts of life

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  • HorusgirlHorusgirl Member Posts: 120
    Originally posted by Flem


    All the supermarkets over here (Australia) sell the following bags for $1 as an alternative to plastic.  There are a hell of a lot of people that use them too.  Once you buy a few your set, provided you remember to bring them with you when you go shopping.

    Same here in Germany, just that the supermarkets have their own bags with their colors and logos all over it especially once they discovered that unlike plastic bags people were using those bags for other things besides shopping. And in the end it's cheaper than buying a plastic bag all the time.



    BTW

    Don't know if its the same in all their stores around the world but in Germany IKEA has those huge robust plastic bags for 50 cent . Now those are awesome plastic bags! I use one as a laundry basket


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