What ever happened to PAPER? or PLASTIC?

I carry some in every store or if they give me plastic I place several inside a canvas bag. I then take the plastic bags and cut the handles off so the sacks themselves can be put in recycle bins and not be as likely to make the auger at the reclamation sites from jamming. Kroger lets you recycle at their stores at the entrance they have 2 tubs for placing old sacks. Actually you can re-use these plastic sacks 100 times before they get torn up. And back in the day when they put out a bag ban and we all had to pay for bags at the checkout stands, the didn't let anyone re-use their plastic bags unless they bought them there. This actually failed.

@nanette64 I wish they had a truck in my neighborhood. I would like to do be able to just gather all the excess bags and take them to one location each week or month.

@lookatdesktop I'm glad that here in Fairfield, once a month, they have a recycle truck show up at the local school.

Well, they still end up somewhere other than my mulch pile in the garden. I mean, they will continue to throw out the plastic on the freeway. It is non stop until they end the production of it.

@lookatdesktop It does a bit of good because there are quite a few people who just refuse to spend that much on a single plastic bag. Of course, there are others who will just pay it anyway for the convenience...

To charge for sacks still doesn't do any good for the environment. It only puts more money into someone else's pocket.

@lookatdesktop It's supermarkets who were mainly affected, and most/all of those are saying that they will give the money to charity. Supposedly, there has been a decline in the use of the single use plastic bags.

@yukimori It took a long time - like seriously over a year. There were many times the kids got SO mad at me because we would park the car and start walking to the store . . . and when we're nearly there, I'd realize I forgot the bags in the car .

I still haven't gotten used to it. I have to put them on the passenger seat or I just leave them in the car.

@yukimori Plastic bags are good for other uses. I have been using them to wrap the pipes outside before winter cold comes. I also find them useful to carry small books and magazines to the donation library and my wife uses some to wrap around loaves of bread to keep them better insulated and fresh. I sometimes see my wife taking a bag and putting flour and spices in it before shaking pork chops or chicken parts and shaking them before baking them. It's better to make as much use of them as possible before taking them finally to a place that takes plastic bags. There are such places.

@lookatdesktop Maybe. I definitely agree about the plastic sacks being next to useless. I usually end up putting books and magazines into boxes when I'm planning to donate them. At least those don't normally rip!

Maybe they expect some kind of tip. Just wondering. If I offered a dollar for 5 extra paper sacks at 20 cents per sack that would be good. I like to put magazines ans books in paper sacks because they store better and can be carried out to the library for donations. Plastic sacks are too narrow and flimsy and thin to amount to anything.

Agreed on all counts.

paper can be recycled to be used as building material so that would actually save some trees. I think that, back in the olden days going to the market in town from the country home, one would carry several burlap bags, reusable and wooden crates to carry things back and just re-use them. They had the right idea all along. Back in the days before I was born.

@lookatdesktop Either that or no paper bag lol!

Wowl Funtasimundo. I like that. They are the exception to the rule.