wtf, canada charges 5 cents for plastic bags?

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I know times are hard, PM me your PayPal info and I will send you five cents.

multiply 20 bags so far by .05 and you owe me one dollar (canadian). at a 25% exchange rate, I'll go ahead and accept your .75 cents.

So, buy some decent quality bags and reuse them. Whaaaa, I have to pay for bags that used to be free...whaaaaa.

its the hypocrisy in the whole matter. garbage collectors are going on strike and guess what the contingency plan is? the city is asking residents to DOUBLE BAG their garbage. what a load of crap

http://network.nationalpost.co...-contingency-plan.aspx

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I throw all my cans in the garbage because the $.05 deposit is too much effort to return the can for. I feel like a poor retard carting the cans into the store and it takes forever on those machines anyway.

Give them to some Kid, they'll appreciate the $.

When I lived up North the neighbor kids came to me every couple weeks for bottles/cans. I told them they could have them all. Made them happy, cost me one less trash bag, everybody wins.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I throw all my cans in the garbage because the $.05 deposit is too much effort to return the can for. I feel like a poor retard carting the cans into the store and it takes forever on those machines anyway.

Give them to some Kid, they'll appreciate the $.

When I lived up North the neighbor kids came to me every couple weeks for bottles/cans. I told them they could have them all. Made them happy, cost me one less trash bag, everybody wins.

Every now and then I've seen hobos going through the dumpster at my apartment looking for cans. If I see them out there I'll grab whatever cans I've got in the apartment and give it to them. At least I know he's out there trying to do something to get some money rather than sitting around begging for it.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I throw all my cans in the garbage because the $.05 deposit is too much effort to return the can for. I feel like a poor retard carting the cans into the store and it takes forever on those machines anyway.

Give them to some Kid, they'll appreciate the $.

When I lived up North the neighbor kids came to me every couple weeks for bottles/cans. I told them they could have them all. Made them happy, cost me one less trash bag, everybody wins.

Every now and then I've seen hobos going through the dumpster at my apartment looking for cans. If I see them out there I'll grab whatever cans I've got in the apartment and give it to them. At least I know he's out there trying to do something to get some money rather than sitting around begging for it.

Exactly! Can't fault someone for making an honest (and a kind of hard) living.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I throw all my cans in the garbage because the $.05 deposit is too much effort to return the can for. I feel like a poor retard carting the cans into the store and it takes forever on those machines anyway.

Give them to some Kid, they'll appreciate the $.

When I lived up North the neighbor kids came to me every couple weeks for bottles/cans. I told them they could have them all. Made them happy, cost me one less trash bag, everybody wins.

When I was 11ish, I had some friends convince me to go Door-to-Door asking people for their Bottles/Cans. We made some pretty good $ doing it, but now I look back at that and just shake my head about it. :laugh:

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: MrPickins
I don't appreciate being nickle-and-dimed out of my money. Especially under false pretenses.

Then bring your own goddamn bag

Why should I have the extra expense and hassle? So the company can save .1¢ per bag?

Fuck that.

Edit: I forgot, the company also gets to boast about how "green" they are. :roll:

no douchebag so you don't waste the fucking bag

Stop thinking about "ZOMG what a hassle, I'm bringing my own bag" and instead think "that's 1 less plastic bag I have to throw away"

No, it's "Now I have to buy bags to use for cat litter, bathroom trash can, trash can under the sink, trash bags for cleaning out the car, trash bags for cleaning out the gutters, trash bags to suffocate hookers with, trash bags for emptying the vacuum cleaner..."

Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

Who cares? Is there some global shortage of landfill space that I don't know about?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Can't believe it hasn't been posted yet...

IN CANADA, MILK COMES IN BAGS!

 

[maziwanka]

good. get ppl to stop freaking wasting bags. that shit comprises a crazy amount of waste in here

 

[jlee]

Stores around here give you a credit ($0.03 or $0.05, I forget) if you bring your own reusable bags..none of this charging extra BS. Then again, they're probably way more expensive to begin with.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

So by charging a punitive nickel for a plastic bag, that will address all of these issues? Do you have a unicorn I can ride, too?

 

[Sealy]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Sealy
I'm so used to bringing in my bags now, and actually HATE it when I forget cause I really don't want to have to use the store bags. I've actually left an entire shopping cart full of grocs at the till and run out to the car to get my own bags

same here!!!!!

I love you melty!!! :heart:

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

So by charging a punitive nickel for a plastic bag, that will address all of these issues? Do you have a unicorn I can ride, too?

If it causes people to stop using them, and it appears it does, then Yes.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Sealy

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Sealy
I'm so used to bringing in my bags now, and actually HATE it when I forget cause I really don't want to have to use the store bags. I've actually left an entire shopping cart full of grocs at the till and run out to the car to get my own bags

same here!!!!!

I love you melty!!! :heart:

awshucks :beer: :heart:

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

So by charging a punitive nickel for a plastic bag, that will address all of these issues? Do you have a unicorn I can ride, too?

If it causes people to stop using them, and it appears it does, then Yes.

So they no longer offer bags in these stores?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

So by charging a punitive nickel for a plastic bag, that will address all of these issues? Do you have a unicorn I can ride, too?

If it causes people to stop using them, and it appears it does, then Yes.

So they no longer offer bags in these stores?

Still offer, but less used means less wasted. This isn't Rocket Science.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: Sealy
oh ya I forgot about the cash back for reusing bags... save on foods gives 2 cents back per used bags.

I don't recall getting money back for using canvas bags...I do get Save On More points though.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

It's more a symbolic gesture than anything...5 cents per bag is not much of a deterrent. Start charging $1 per bag, and watch people adopt the reusable bags.

I have been buying all my groceries in reusable bags for years now. If I happen to go to a store (clothes, etc.) and not have a reusable bag on me, then I will get a plastic bag.

I only have a few plastic bags at home, which I use to transport sweaty gym clothes back home and to collect smaller plastic bags (bread bags, etc). Whenever I take empty bottles and cans to the recycling depot, I also take along a bunch of plastic bags for recycling.

As for garbage, I use biodegradable bags. I know I pay more for them, but it's worthwhile to me.

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
The Queen wanted a new diamond for her crown.

Whenever I read your posts about Canada and the queen, I portray a toothless hick with an old revolution hat, branding a shotgun while sitting in a rocker chair at the border, sworn to prevent the evil imperial British from invading the US.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha


As for garbage, I use biodegradable bags. I know I pay more for them, but it's worthwhile to me.

I wouldn't waste the money on these tbh. Unless you expect some to get away from you and end up out of ground somewhere, they aren't going to biodegrade. One of the last jobs I was on was the site of an old landfill. People were digging newspapers up from the 40s, and they were still readable.

 

[PKPunk]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: MrPickins
I don't appreciate being nickle-and-dimed out of my money. Especially under false pretenses.

Then bring your own goddamn bag

Why should I have the extra expense and hassle? So the company can save .1¢ per bag?

Fuck that.

Edit: I forgot, the company also gets to boast about how "green" they are. :roll:

no douchebag so you don't waste the fucking bag

Stop thinking about "ZOMG what a hassle, I'm bringing my own bag" and instead think "that's 1 less plastic bag I have to throw away"

No, it's "Now I have to buy bags to use for cat litter, bathroom trash can, trash can under the sink, trash bags for cleaning out the car, trash bags for cleaning out the gutters, trash bags to suffocate hookers with, trash bags for emptying the vacuum cleaner..."

Yes, because EVERYBODY always resuses plastic bags. Plastic bags still consume resources to manufacture and still take up space in landfills and can be a legimate litter problem.

They are going to start doing this in Hong Kong starting next month.

I think nakedfrog has a valid point because I reuse those plastic bags around the house whenever I can for trash bags BUT I only reuse a small percentage of those plastic bags. On an average trip to grocery store I'd say get anywhere from 5-10 and I go to the grocery store 3-4 times a month, that's 15-40 bags a month and I may reuse maybe 3-5 of those bags as garbage bags per month. Plus these are just bags from grocery stores, I'm not counting all the other plastic bags I get from other types of stores. I think in an average month I probably take in at least 40-50 plastic bags. So out of 40-50 bags a month I reuse 3-5. So from my experience I don't think saying plastic bags from stores has a net zero affect on landfills because those plastic bags would replace bag a you would otherwise buy. If I had a reusable bag I would probably only throw away 5 bags a month instead of 50.

I just wanted to add because of this thread I'm going to purchase a reusable bag, I've never really sat down and thought about how many of those damn bags I use in a month and to think if I could personally cut the use of 50 bags a month, 600 bags a year


BTW, San Francisco already baned plastic bags from grocery stores
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