Where are you on the use of supermarket plastic bags ?

Hi Folks,





I personally have a couple of supermarket cotton bags, so do not use loads of plastic ones, although they are handy as a kitchen bin liner.





However, what would happen in the fruit %26amp; veg aisles ?





Imagine a trolley or basket with it all loose


At the checkout-out conveyor belt, we have two potatoes, an apple, a loose bundle of mushrooms, another potato, an onion, two oranges, yet another potato etc, etc.





I may try this method for fun under the pretext that I am following suprtmarket instructions to be %26quot;eco-freindly%26quot;





My local Co-Op is still using %26quot;Christmas%26quot; plastic bags.


They say someone over-ordered





Could use paper ones, but there go the trees again





Any humourous or serious answers thankfully received





Bob

Where are you on the use of supermarket plastic bags ?
it is no laughing matter, bob


I try to cut down on plastic whenever i can. when archaeologists dig 100 years from now, we will be known as the %26quot;plactic people%26quot; due to the large layer of plastic around the earth that we have buried. inagine what this is doing to the planet.
Reply:they should be stopped and recycled paper bags could be use just like years ago before the big supermarkets took over
Reply:Plastic bags, if recycled, are not harmful at all. Just don%26#039;t put it over your head for too long.
Reply:I hate to be overly serious but this is a most urgent and literally life and death question. Now that the horrendous impact of this menace of plague like proportions has been identified and graphically illustrated their use should cease immediately. We constantly hear of the enormous profits of the big Supermarkets who should replace their feigned concern for the environment with an environmental friendly alternative to this modern day scourge by using a fraction of their obscene proceeds.
Reply:Those plastic bags have 999 uses, just slightly lower than duct tape.





I use them as small trash can liners.





When cleaning out the kitty litter.





When I%26#039;m painting and take a break for a couple hours I don%26#039;t want to spend a lot of time washing out brushes, and I don%26#039;t want them to dry out so I wrap the paint brushes in a plastic bag. They%26#039;ll keep overnight without having to wash out brushes until I%26#039;m done.





I take lunch to work in them.





I toss vegetable scraps I collect for the compost heap in them.





If i have too many, my supermarket has a recycling bin where they collect the extras from customers. If yours doesn%26#039;t talk to the manager about it.
Reply:I still use plastic ,,but than I recycle them and reuse them if they are clean..I use them to put xmas decorations in from one yr to the next so they don%26#039;t have that musty smell...I also use them for small trash can liners...I use them to carry things to my mom,,like lunches etc,,,and than she reuses them to use as trash can liners..They get lots of reuse if I can think of it..I almost never throw away any 1 time used ones...


I think they should use big material heavy ones at the grocery store..like the old shopping bags or baskets...Or at least melt them down and remake new ones instead of dumping them in the land fills..I hate waste..
Reply:I never take plastic bags unless I really have to. I have shopping bags I take with me. We have to pay 15 cent for each plastic bag here which is a good thing as they are no longer stuck to wire fencing all over the country. Recycled paper bags should be provided in all the stores I think.
Reply:I have the reusable ones too but I really need the plastic ones for the bathroom trashes... :(





For the veggies, though, they could use biodegradable containers...



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