Does Anyone Else

Oh yes it’s making a huge difference for me. Every time I reuse my bag I add my nickel to a savings jar and so far in the last year I’ve made enough so I can go buy me a piece of chewing gum , it use to cost only a penny now it’s made smaller ( to use less paper) and costs a quarter.

I don't do it to make a difference. I do it to save money.

Take your canvas bags to the supermarket
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No because the price charged for bags here (about 15 cents) is 10+ times the cost of the bags supermarkets used to supply. Plus almost everyone re-used the bags from the supermarket at least once (in my case as rubbish bags - I don't have or use a 'bin' inside the house - instead I hang a bag and when it's full put it in the council rubbish bin and hand a new bag).

I have two cloth bags of plastic supermarket bags (one for each vehicle) but find after between 5 and 10 uses the so-called 'green' plastic bags fail, get too many holes, the handles break off, or some combo of that, so they have to be discarded.

It's the same sort of arguments used to outlaw plastic drinking straws, plastic cutlery at take-away places, etc.

I love doing that but I stopped because I sometimes think to myself like “Am I weird for doing that?🤔”
Thanks for sharing this, really appreciate to find people like me, guess I will go back to doing this, maybe then I will make a change too in my home country and motivate the people of my country, especially my home city, to do something good for themselves, because with all honesty holding bags that can easily tear is exhausting, unlike getting two or three reusable bags for groceries, especially the ones that are not plastic, they help more in holding goods and I don’t care if I got it from my trip in barcelona, am using it for groceries not to brag about the bag😊🤭

Yes, it does feel good. And every small thing we can do for the environment can make us feel that we are doing something good. And saves us money too.

Yes. Some of the canvas bags I use are at least 40 years old, and they still look and work just fine. Much better than those flimsy little plastic bags, for sure. Like you, I know it's just a small difference. I also know small differences add up to big ones...when enough people do something.
Most of the videos showing the "life of a plastic bag" and the harm they do are sort of long, but this one illustrates what I see and have seen most every where I've been. Plastic bags blowing around or trapped in trees and fences, in waterways, and mixed in with the seaweed and trash on beaches, and in my own front and backyard:
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Make a difference-probably not.
But I do bring my own when i remember. If anything it saves me $.05 per paper bag that they charge.

Yes, we all have to do our part. Even God says in the Bible that he will punish those who hurt the earth.

It's easier to have your own bags anyway. Otherwise the bags at home will stock up and you have to throw away more garbage.

I bought some permanent ones and used them for awhile but they would get dirty and dusty so I went back to plastic bags and use them to throw out food. That way I can keep it separate from my other trash. I roll it up and put it in the trash but it stays separate. Wet trash is gross. I use garbage bags to line the can but it's still gross and attracts ants and flys in the bin outside. This is cleaner and smells better.

Same, I always reuse them

That's all your doing is feeling good, not helping the environment.

https://qz.com/1759150/reusable-plastic-shopping-bags-are-making-the-problem-worse/

Plus, it's a tax on the middle class, who now have to buy thicker commercial-bought plastic bags for their garbage, when they used to use thinner store given ones. Unless you want to get rats through unsanitary conditions.

Plus, most people don't clean those bags and bring potential bed bugs onto the cashiers belt over and over again.

Climate change is the biggest scam ever invented, it just makes rich liberals feel good about themselves and hurts the poor and middle class.

You know when to replace your own, how many plastic bags has torn before you put the groceries away

I honestly always brought my own bag because a backpack is easier to carry than a plastic finger cutter.

We use a Mom and Pop place that uses the good paper bags

I buy them new each time and use them for trash. I fold them up and stack them in the pantry. But I don't reuse them. (at stores or for grocerys)

Oh yes, sweetie. Little things add up, especially if we all do it....

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I bring empty boxes and box them just like at Costco

It has become a good habit for me. I have a reusable cloth one in my handbag and a couple of larger strong hessian bags in my car. Most people seem to bring their own bags and its made a hell of a difference.

Every little bit counts!

Yes

Nope. There's still plastic everywhere. It's like when they planned plastic straws in some places....guess the lids weren't important....

I wish I had the foresight to bring my own.

Most stores here’s don’t have plastic bags anymore here so there is no choice. I think every little bit helps though.