Originally Posted by irishrose
Someone needs to tell the cashier that bringing your own bags isn't sanitary unless you wash them with every use, then the water use negates the savings to the environment. I need the plastic bags for picking up after dogs and various other non food uses, so mine are reused.
BTW, I see a lot more people of a mature age people trying to save the environment than younger ones around here. It bugs me to see anyone throw away aluminum cans, etc.
I agree! Where I live the Mayor just succeeded in banning plastic bags from certain grocery stores..the large chains, bowing to the environmentalists.
Yet, has the good mayor thought about banning plastic water bottles? Those are much more hazardous..and to humans (if you believe the reports about reusing them) and just tossed into trash cans.
I recycle my plastic bags via the grocery store I get them from and the plastic bottles are recycled by our trash hauler.
The paper bags with handles don't hold up well with any weight to speak of and I'll bet the bags will just be tossed instead of recycled...so there goes the trees. At least with plastic bags, they are made from a waste gas that comes from the production of natural gas. Not made from oil as a lot of people are made to believe.
Sorry...my vent.......