Anecdotally, it has curbed my own use. At first I was a little irritated but quickly realized that the collection of bags at home was an overwhelming waste when 80% of the time I was only carrying 2-3 items, which I can easily hand carry.
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It was a pet peeve of mine to watch people put a small item in a bag, wrap the whole thing and hand carry it.
Nice!
Ten years ago I bought a pack of four canvas shopping bags off of Amazon, and I've used them ever since. They're fantastic. I have one with a small tear that I will sew back up by hand, but by and large they're awesome quality.
I’ve saw a lot of embroidery patching in Pinterest I definitely plan to use in my tote bags. It just adds more love to them:)
Yeah, it's really surprising how easy it is to do a large percentage of your shopping without bags. For larger shopping trips you will need something of course, but for the way most urban residents live, you dive into a store for five things at a time and usually end up with some kind of bag or box along the way, so just "winging it" works more often than not.
That's what I always think as I walk in, but as I start juggling more and more, I usually have to pull out the ripstop tote that's always folded into my small purse. And sometimes add a paper bag if it gets to be too much
I'm glad to be rid of the jellyfish bags, even though I now need separate "compostable" pet bags that aren't really compostable.
They work until your state government is run by oil & natural gas lobbyists.
my trader joes cloth bags are infinitely better than paper OR plastic.
The unexpected part of going with the better reusable bags is not having to worry about weight or the bag splitting. You can fulfill all those single-trip fantasies.
oh definitely i walk everywhere too so it helps.
actually i went to scotland last year on vacation and got some sainsbury's bags and i still use them. they're super durable.
Working for companies who now get 5 to 10 cents per bag, an item that only ever cost them money previous to the ban.
Are you buying new bags every time? The whole point is to bring your own reusable bag instead.
It’s not hard to remember reusable bags. I leave a bunch in my car for this reason.
I anecdotally see far less people plastic bag waste around my community. I just wish we’d do the fixed drink caps like Europe does next.
When it had a plastic bag ban in place, the town of Laredo, TX saved something like a quarter or half million dollars a year on waterway cleanup because there were so many less plastic bags blocking everything.
Then the legislature and maybe state Supreme Court struck down the bans.
No it's not hard, but I still very rarely see people supplying their own bags. Instead they're paying five to ten cents per bag which used to be free but now is a vector for profits to the company, and which used to be made of thin flimsy plastic but is now thick plastic that will take much much longer to degrade. Like I said these bans have been great for the grocery stores profits. It's nice that they do quantifiably reduce plastic waste, though.
Hey Kroger, can you please add handles to your paper bags?
Thanks
I will never, ever trust paper-bag handles if I'm carrying anything heavier or more fragile than a bag of chips.
Aldi had paper bags, then got paper bags with handles, the handles on theirs sucked. If you accidentally hold the bag in any direction other than straight down the glue just tears. I much prefer the normal paper bags because you don't have the false hope that everything will be fine and find out it wasn't.
No. You're not supposed to use them.
They're supposed to be shitty, so you bring your own bag (or buy a cloth one) yourself
Having really shitty bags is probably the best idea of all.
I mean I almost always have a reusable bag since plastic's been banned in my city for like 10 years, but for those very rare times I forget my bag it would be really, really nice if the paper bags weren't totally useless. I agree with your point though, just cool it worked to have both :(