Does anyone else feel like they’re making a difference when they bring their own reusable grocery bags ? I know it’s a small difference but it makes me feel good .
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.
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. 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 [b]big[/b] 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: [media=https://youtu.be/GLgh9h2ePYw]
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.
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.
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.
@MarineBob paper bags are a must when making a purchase from the (British alert going off) Chip Shop. Sadly most think of the fractions of pennies they save by letting your food sweat in a plastic bag.
But they are making a difference and just think in no time (about a hundred years) plastic bags will probably still be popping up on the sides of the roads.@Darksideinthenight2
@MarmeeMarch That's what we have to do here since state govt's outlawed giving out 'free' single-use (which everyone almost always used more than once!) bags. Coles sells it's 'better bags' for 15c each. Woolworths does something similar. For a while during the peak of the p(l)ademic lockdowns supermarket staff were instructed not to pack stuff in the bags we had to provide (which is what Aldi has always done).