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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Apology accepted.
If you can come up with reusable yogurt and margarine containers that are as simple to use and maintain as a cotton bag, you will become wealthy beyond imagination. Until such time as this miracle invention exists, I don't think it's such a bad idea to get rid of something that we don't need, like plastic bags.
Since my last post, I went to the grocery store myself. It's something I do often. This time, like usual, I picked up the reusable bag hanging off the coat rack by the door (an action any reasonable person would call "doing nothing), and had my groceries bagged in that.
I paid a dollar for this reusable bag at the grocery store about a year ago. Since then, I would estimate that I have brought home at least 300 plastic-bags-worth of groceries in this one bag. It's a goddamned miracle, I tells ya.
Now granted, I haven't quite yet solved the world's environmental problems with my reusable bag, what I haven't done is brought home 300 plastic bags, by doing nothing.
Is it a big step? No it isn't.
Is there some amount of selfishness involved? Sure, I don't like 300 plastic bags in my house.
Unlike you, apparently, I don't mind buying a box of garbage bags every six months, so I've solved that problem too, just by buying a box of garbage bags, and bringing them in my reusable shopping bag.
So really what you seem to be saying is doing nothing is too much, and you would prefer to use wasteful plastic bags, instead of doing nothing.
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Congratulations on being a condescending dbag.
Where did I say that I prefer to do nothing? I use the bags as garbage bags. Yes, I can buy garbage bags, but hey, those are just one use, right? At least with shopping bags they get a second use. So what makes you better than me, exactly? That you purchase a box of bags and I get them one at a time, for free with my groceries? What's your point?
The real matter here is whether banning bags is reasonable. I'm all for charging for them. I'm sure that that would reduce consumption drastically, without going draconian and outlawing something so arbitrary. Bags. People use them. Even the most environmentally minded person is going to forget their bag or get asked to stop at the store once in awhile. I bet even you have used a plastic bag or two in the last year, Rouge.
If, however, a charge were to come into effect, I hope the money collected goes to something recycling related, and not into general revenue.