That Little Plastic Clippie Thing
By Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (66809)
Canada
June 21, 2022 6:16am CST
Single use items will become distinct here in Canada soon.
Actually at the end of 2023 we will stop having them available to us. By the end of 2025 Canada will stop exporting them.
When I read news such as this I think to myself, a few changes here a few changes there. But then my hubby told me that it has already hit here-right in our own kitchen! 
When he opened the new loaf of bread yesterday morning, the bread clip was cardboard. He told me that those are not flexible, once they are bent, they no longer hold the bread wrapper tight.
He told me that he just tossed the cardboard clip into the garbage and helped himself to one of the clips in the little bowl that I keep.
To some it was a catastrophe when the plastic straws were no longer something that could be purchased, the plastic cutlery and take out trays will be the next things that many will moan and groan that they miss. But for me, I will miss that little plastic clippie thing.
~Photo is mine
When he opened the new loaf of bread yesterday morning, the bread clip was cardboard. He told me that those are not flexible, once they are bent, they no longer hold the bread wrapper tight.
He told me that he just tossed the cardboard clip into the garbage and helped himself to one of the clips in the little bowl that I keep.
To some it was a catastrophe when the plastic straws were no longer something that could be purchased, the plastic cutlery and take out trays will be the next things that many will moan and groan that they miss. But for me, I will miss that little plastic clippie thing.
~Photo is mine24 people like this
25 responses
@wolfgirl569 (55681)
• Marion, Ohio
21 Jun
We just roll the end of the bread bag and fold it under. So I wouldnt miss them.
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@LadyDuck (392573)
• Switzerland
21 Jun
Plastic has almost disappeared here, even the plastic lead to re-close some cheese pots are no more. I am very glad that I washed and kept the old ones. The plastic straws and cutlery were also banned a few years ago, as well as the plastic bags in the supermarkets.
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@sharon6345 (315806)
• United States
21 Jun
It looks like you have way more than enough. How can you ever miss them? I don't think you're going to toss them.
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
I use them fairly regularly.
My hubby will be using 1 for every loaf of bread that he opens, so the little dish will empty quickly.
I cannot imagine how I will get along once they do away with plastic freezer bags, I have to try to think of something for the day that comes.
@sharon6345 (315806)
• United States
21 Jun
@Juliaacv When your hubby uses one and the bread is done what will you do with the plastic thing?
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
@sharon6345 After that it should be pretty flimsy and ready to be thrown out.
@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
I have a couple of big chip clips, but I think that I will buy some clothes pins to use on the bread.
I'd like to keep the chip clips for chip bags, not that we often have chips in the cupboard, but still.
What will we do when they take the plastic lids away from the Maxwell House coffee tins and they are replaced with cardboard? I think it will be back to using canisters again.
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@snowy22315 (137621)
• United States
21 Jun
Hmmm, wonder if that will come to pass here? My guess it is going to be awhile. Only certain stores have even phased out plastic bags.
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@Marilynda1225 (69063)
• United States
21 Jun
I"m on the eastern end of Pennsylvania and can just go over the bridge into New Jersey. They not only did away with plastic bags but paper bags too. If you don't bring your own you'll be carrying your stuff in your arms.
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
@Marilynda1225 Isn't it strange that they would do away with paper bags based on the fact that they will break down in a landfill.
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@PhredWreck (7629)
• Olney, Illinois
21 Jun
They still make those? I'm a wire tie guy myself.
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@Marilynda1225 (69063)
• United States
21 Jun
I save those little clippee things too. Some of the bread I get has a twistee thing that is almost impossible to unwind when trying to open the bread so I switch it for a clippee thing.
I don't have as many clippee things saved like you do but I'm going to start saving them again. A cardboard thingee just doesn't seem like it would work.
Yes there are plastic things that I will definitely miss when they're no longer available ( plastic cutlery and red solo cups)
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
Save them if you can.
My Gramma used to keep a little tin of those and the elastic bands that she would get with groceries.
The cardboard clips do not hold the wrapper tight because once you bend them to open the loaf for the first time they will not hold the wrapper tight after that.
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@Marilynda1225 (69063)
• United States
23 Jun
@Juliaacv Once I read this I mentioned it to my daughter and told her not to throw away those little plastic bread thingee. I"m all for saving the planet but some plastic items are going to be hard to replace with whatever alternative they come up with.
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
23 Jun
@Marilynda1225 That's how I feel, I will use what I have twice before discarding.
Bottled water is something that I won't miss.
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. I suppose twist ties will disappear too.
People are still upset about the cardboard straws.
@averygirl72 (31608)
• Philippines
22 Jun
I don't know if that will happen here in my country too. So you collect those plastic clippie I found in loaf breads?
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@averygirl72 (31608)
• Philippines
22 Jun
@Juliaacv We just throw them away. Maybe I should save them too
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@aninditasen (5698)
• Raurkela, India
21 Jun
I miss the plastic bags but I like the cloth one too.
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@aninditasen (5698)
• Raurkela, India
22 Jun
@Juliaacv I use the grocery bags from online shops to store vegetables and fruits in the fridge.
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@misunderstood_zombie (6411)
• United States
22 Jun
I think it's wonderful, and wished they would do that in the USA or at least Texas. I can never collect those clippies because I always lose them before the bread goes bad. 
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@misunderstood_zombie (6411)
• United States
23 Jun
@Juliaacv I think some states have already started the process, and I believe you are right, it will turn worldwide.
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@RebeccasFarm (65089)
• United States
21 Jun
Oh dear..is this really going to help anything by stopping those
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@Juliaacv (66809)
• Canada
21 Jun
I think that doing away with the plastic take out containers and the plastic ups and cutlery will have a good effect on the environment.
We hosted Christmas in 2019 and we had a really hard time finding plastic cutlery back then already.
Covid delayed them from banning them, but its here now.
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@m_audrey6788 (56340)
• Germany
21 Jun
We don`t have something like that here but that is so useful 
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16059)
• China
22 Jun
There must be ecofriendly things that replace them.Bread clip doesn't concern me,because we live on a staple diet of rice.
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@RasmaSandra (54776)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Jun
I guess while we have these here I should save up some I have a few around
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@JESSY3236 (16262)
• United States
21 Jun
I will miss plastic grocery bags. We haven't phased them out yet. We use grocery bags as poop bags (for our cats).
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