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Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or any other use. This poll- comes up- over the que


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Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or any o... - 5/20/2011 7:05:12 AM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:06:18 AM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:06:38 AM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:08:49 AM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:08:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		EU moves to ban plastic bags...

A few cities in CA too.

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:25:44 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

EU moves to ban plastic bags...

A few cities in CA too.



In Germany they introduced charges already 20 years ago or even longer (it was during my childhood) and I can only agree to the woman in this article who says:

quote:

"In Germany, plastic bags are getting a lot rarer," says Sonja Klug, a native German. "In supermarkets you have to buy the sturdy reusable ones or the lovely linen bags." Sonja is shocked by the profligacy of British retailers. "I say about 20 times a week: 'No bag, please.' I find it maddening that people get a whole bag just to carry a sandwich over the road to the office."



Countless times I said in the stores over here "I don't need a bag" and almost always receive the answer "are you sure???" ffs, no, give me 3 hours to think about what I said

At home also the use of tin cans got reduced when they introduced the rule that you had to bring them back to the store if you want the refund...

whilst bottles you can bring back in almost any store at home for the refund, the cans you had to bring back to the store where you bought them from, if you want the refund and the hassle to keep their receipt of those cans to get the refund at the end, lead to people simply buying more likely bottles in the first place...as it was much easier to return them wherever you wanted to return them...with no hassle to keep the receipt...

It didn't take long that the number of cans were reduced significantly, in the stores...

In regards to reusing bags, I do reuse mine as bin bags for the small bins, but do know others views, such as the guy I visited in america, who preferred to buy his bin bags for those bins (instead of reusing his shopping bags for that) as they had such a lovely vanilla (or whatever flavour it was) smell



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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:30:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		recycling in the US seems to be hit or miss, sadly..

here in FL, you can recycle the plastic bags.

When I first moved into the current house, there were recycling bins.  They were rarely picked up, and disappeared at some point.

Now, when I clean the litter boxes, I use the plastic bags, and they go into the regular garbage.  There is plenty I'd love to recycle but the local garbage pick up folks seem to have different ideas.  Bastards.

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:50:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		I do re-use them. I would prefer to not have them but I also don't have the foresight to carry around a half a dozen or more cloth bags for a last minute stop at the grocery store or Walmart/Kmart.

I take 99.9% of them to the recycling facility with all my other recyclables.I am lucky in that the recycle facility is on my way to work.


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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 7:54:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have seen patio stones or garden stepping stones, whatever they're called, made out of recycled plastic bags. They are pretty cool, actually.

And yes, I do reuse them, as do a lot of my neighbors, since we have pooper scooper laws here, they're handy for picking up. They do get thrown away then, obviously, but at least they had a second use, and we didn't go to Petco and buy "special" bags.

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 9:46:54 AM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 9:48:29 AM   
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recycling in the US seems to be hit or miss, sadly..

here in FL, you can recycle the plastic bags.

When I first moved into the current house, there were recycling bins.  They were rarely picked up, and disappeared at some point.



that reminds me that my parents newest tenant (she lives in the same house where my parents are living in a basement flat) was irritated about our small black bin....she could (and probably still can't as she just recently moved in) not imagine how such a small black bin should be sufficient for 3 adults in that house (my parents and herself)...so my mum showed her the compost....where every uncooked food ends up (I think it is uncooked food my mum said, personally I am out of touch at present, in that respect...according to mum uncooked food such as potatoe skins, are fine on there, whereas cooked food attracts rats) and explained to her what gets on there and that therefore they don't need a bigger black bin.


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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 9:50:28 AM   
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I do re-use them. I would prefer to not have them but I also don't have the foresight to carry around a half a dozen or more cloth bags for a last minute stop at the grocery store or Walmart/Kmart.


When I did the weekly shopping for my jobs in childrens homes we usually used laundry baskets in our vans to store the bought food in there

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 11:28:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		They go into the small wastebaskets in the bathrooms and bedrooms.  A lot of stores also have recycle bins for them.  We try to use the fabric shopping bags as much as possible, but the plastic ones sure come in handy if someone has stomach flu.  I'd rather not ban them, tyvm.

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 1:31:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		The problem with using re-usable bags for groceries is that they need to be washed every time. If you have a package of chicken, the blood will get into the bag and then the following week, you'll have e coli contamination of the new food. I double bag chicken in plastic because it always drips. Beef and pork aren't nearly as likely to.

I use them for wastepaper baskets. I use them instead of bubble wrap for shipping things. I keep a couple in the car so if I'm waiting I can collect all the garbage that accumulates.


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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 1:48:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		We keep a couple of the plastic bags here for trash (bathroom) and next to mom's chair (mucus trouble).

Bo is big on the reusable bags.  I know he 'stole' some from me *I left some behind*.

We do have one bag for the library, though this town is not known for recycling.  There is a couple of the plastic baggie bins at Walmart.  

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 1:59:06 PM   
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i use them because they seem to collect, to breed, i don't consciously search them out to use.  Usually, they're around because of forgetfulness or laziness on my part to remember my canvas tote when i go shopping.


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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 4:47:40 PM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 5:15:43 PM   
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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 5:40:35 PM   
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Hooray for clean plastic bags!

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RE: Do you re-use plastic store bags? For garbage or a... - 5/20/2011 5:43:09 PM   
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