Grocery stores used to provide paper bags. Now you'd be hard pressed to find some when bagging up your groceries at the checkout line.
Most big stores have those handy bag dispensers the cashiers use. They are pretty time efficient. If customers bring their own bags they have to fumble around with them, and that will add time to the checkout process. They will need to hire more cashiers to compensate.
Nah, everyone does that.Apparently I'm the only person who uses grocery bags as garbage bags? I have a holder in my kitchen that almost perfectly accommodates a grocery bag.
The point is that the government is unnecessarily driving up costs to advance the agenda of a few, not the majority, and it pisses people off.
Apparently I'm the only person who uses grocery bags as garbage bags? I have a holder in my kitchen that almost perfectly accommodates a grocery bag. After dinner & the dishes are done, I tie the bag closed and throw it in the trash can outside. I don't leave garbage accumulating in my house for days in order to fill a big 30 gallon bag.
so the majority isn't for cleaner waterways?
No. They are for CLEAN waterways at a reasonable cost and reasonable restrictions on our liberties. I'm sure we could drink the water directly out of the Chicago river if we spent enough money and stopped people from living within 200 miles of it. Are you willing to do that or are you against cleaner water?
Funny, everywhere I go thats progressive I see more trash.. and conversative.. less trash. Perhaps we should ban progressives?
Funny, everywhere I go thats progressive I see more trash.. and conversative.. less trash. Perhaps we should ban progressives?
so the majority isn't for cleaner waterways?
My take is the anti-tax zealots have made it so hard for municipalities to raise taxes, they are turning to "use based" taxes.
Too bad, since these taxes aren't progressive, and in effect benefit wealthy people over everyone else.
FWIW grocery stores work on a VERY thin profit margin and the cost of bags is a big chunk of the budget. It costs a store about 2 cents for one of the typical 2-handle plastic bags and over 5 cents for the largest 1/6 paper with the store logo on it. The way the bags are manufactured is undeniably bad for the environment and it takes the city a ton of cash to deal with clean-up, as much as another 5-6 cents per bag. I'm no enviro-geek, but this is one of the things the left wing wants that actually makes sense. Everyone wins on this and it's going to happen. The touchy-feely places like California will roll it out first and places like Texas will get it last, but in 10 years it's going to cover much of the country.
People will invest a couple of bucks up front for reusable canvas bags and the problem is solved. You're already paying for the bags anyway, the store factors them into the margins. They might not ring up at .5 cents a pop, but you're damn well paying that.
You cannot legislation personal responsibility.
(The fatal flaw of "progressive" thinking)
can I get my money back when I bring my old plastic bags back to the grocery store for recycling?
no but you can legislate a pretty damn close approximation, which is often better than the voluntary compliance ***wink, wink, nudge, nudge*** spew that comes from the side claiming that everyone needs to be personally responsible. i think most people would be responsible if they just thought about it but there usually is no immediate impetus to thinking about it. a fee provides that impetus.
This.
They charge us a deposit fee for bottles - which is refunded if we turn in the bottle [and the damn automated machine can recognize the UPC bar code].
As for 5 cents a bag - they aren't paying that much for each bag - that's just another way for the store to make a profit over and above what they are already overcharging for groceries [reducing the size/amount of the product / increasing the price].
If they want to start charging for bags - I'd say go for it. I'll shop elsewhere or just bring my own bags.
States with bottle bills are strikingly cleaner than states without. I almost never see a bottle or can on the streets where I live. I have gone to states without bottle bills and there are cans and broken glass everywhere. Huge amounts of plastics and aluminum have been recycled, saving America large amounts of money that would have gone for imported oil, and lowered emissions from coal fired power plants that didn't have to provide the electricity to produce virgin aluminum.
Helped US balance of payments. Cut down on landfill usage.
Created jobs that kept money in the US instead of going offshore to pay for oil.
Where does the un-recycled plastic and glass go and does it have a cost?What savings? Unless you are talking metals, most other recycling isn't cost effective. Virgin plastics cost 40% less than recycled and recycled glass costs 2 to 3 times more than raw.
Where does the un-recycled plastic and glass go and does it have a cost?