Comments on: Banish the plastic bag! http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/banish-the-plastic-bag/ Comments on politics and anything else I find interesting Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:28:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bob Brumfield http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/banish-the-plastic-bag/#comment-372 Bob Brumfield Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:20:45 +0000 http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-372 Please support non use of plastic bags Please support non use of plastic bags

]]> By: Betsy http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/banish-the-plastic-bag/#comment-368 Betsy Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:53:08 +0000 http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-368 Thanks for posting this. I've been using cloth bags for quite awhile now. But when I do get a plastic bag, I always save it and reuse it--then I recycle it. They're great for packing shoes or cosmetics in your luggage when you travel, picking up dog waste, as trash bags in the car when on a trip, bagging hamburger patties for freezing, carrying books from the library, protecting a bandaged arm or leg while showering--and much, much more. After I've used them a couple of time, I recycle them (dog waste excepted!). Thanks for posting this.

I’ve been using cloth bags for quite awhile now. But when I do get a plastic bag, I always save it and reuse it–then I recycle it. They’re great for packing shoes or cosmetics in your luggage when you travel, picking up dog waste, as trash bags in the car when on a trip, bagging hamburger patties for freezing, carrying books from the library, protecting a bandaged arm or leg while showering–and much, much more. After I’ve used them a couple of time, I recycle them (dog waste excepted!).

]]> By: gaj http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/banish-the-plastic-bag/#comment-364 gaj Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:09:41 +0000 http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-364 I am spending the year in Europe for work, so far I have lived in France and Germany. While plastic bags are not banned per se, in grocery stores there is a charge for bags and people in general carry their own fabric or other non-plastic bags. It doesn't seem to inconvenience anyone. It would probably take the average American about a month to remember to take empty reusable shopping bags to the store every time. This is not a hard change to make! And yet it reduces litter as well as petroleum usage. Okay, I reused plastic bags all the time in the states for garbage bags and for pet waste, but here you just purchase small plastic bags for those sorts of things. And trust me, you are much less likely to be standing in the parking lot with a bunch of newly purchased food rolling about under your car if you use reusable bags rather than flimsy plastic bags. Why do Americans like those things so much to begin with? I am spending the year in Europe for work, so far I have lived in France and Germany. While plastic bags are not banned per se, in grocery stores there is a charge for bags and people in general carry their own fabric or other non-plastic bags. It doesn’t seem to inconvenience anyone. It would probably take the average American about a month to remember to take empty reusable shopping bags to the store every time. This is not a hard change to make! And yet it reduces litter as well as petroleum usage. Okay, I reused plastic bags all the time in the states for garbage bags and for pet waste, but here you just purchase small plastic bags for those sorts of things.

And trust me, you are much less likely to be standing in the parking lot with a bunch of newly purchased food rolling about under your car if you use reusable bags rather than flimsy plastic bags. Why do Americans like those things so much to begin with?

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