Plastic Bags

[DShock]

When I was at the Grocery Store last night, a green canvas bag got my attention. It cost me 88 cents and I hauled my groceries out with it. These canvas bags will replace the plastic and paper bags I have been using. I'm starting with one bag to see if I can make it work for me. I learned one of the problems with the canvas bags, is that you have to remember to take it with you on the return trip to the Store. I am totally sick of plastic grocery bags!
Doug

[J Castwell]

I have two of them,,, have had for quite a while...

[ducksterman]

Now I've got a picture in mind of Superman carrying two green bags out of a grocery store

[Normand]

it takes alot of little green bags to bring home $150 worth of groceries. the ones i've seen are not very big.

i did buy one from the whole foods market and it is quite large. just wish i could remember to take it along on grocery trips.

[Joe Valencic]

Have to agree with Normand, not practical for a cart FULL of groceries, but nice if you just need a few things. We don't live withing walking distance of the grocery store, so we try to make just one big buy a week in order to limit the trips. Our stores have boxes at the entrances to put your old bags in for recycling. We use our grocery bags to line trash cans in the bathrooms, basement and garage, plus we use them daily when we walk our dog (70# lab). Very few bags from our home go to the landfill without something in them.

Joe

[Normand]

Very few bags from our home go to the landfill without something in them.

but they still go in a landfill to decompose in a 100 plus or minus years (or whatever it takes). we all do it

[tlerm]

I like the idea of the reusable bags because those darn plastic bags keep breaking because they always seem to overload them.

At the same time I think it would be a hassle for us to use those bags because of how many we would need. Our typical every other week shopping trip is $250 or more and is nearly two carts full. That seems like it would take quite a mess of bags.

[Rick Z]

In Iowa they make some people use the plastic bags that break down.
The problem is that it takes sunlight to do break them down and the trash must be covered by something like 4:30 or 5:00 pm of every day trash comes in. Thus the sun cannnot get to the bags.

Rick

[MikieFinn]

Plastic shopping bags are made moastly out of HDPE. This material can be recycled. If your local recycling "authority" does not accept them. Wally world has a bins for collecting them (at least round here they do) right byt the entrance. We use them for groceries and other things around the house. What's left is taken back to the store.

P.S. Paper is a carbon based material (like tree leaves) and therefore it does break down fairly quickly. If you shred it and put it in the compost it will "dissapear".

[dudley]

Plastic shopping bags are made moastly out of HDPE. This material can be recycled. If your local recycling "authority" does not accept them. Wally world has a bins for collecting them (at least round here they do) right byt the entrance. We use them for groceries and other things around the house. What's left is taken back to the store.

And the degradable bags can not be recycled.
Can't have it both ways. It's one or the other.