Just out of interest, who has changed their use of plastic bags?

I know its not going to be popular, but I very seldom reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket. I use them as rubbish bags, and for storing stuff, but that's about it. The same as I did before the changes, just that my rubbish is held in a bullet proof heavy duty bag now instead of the lighter bags it used to be. Every now and then I go to a supermarket that has the lighter bio-degradeable type, so at least I know the rubbish bag will eventually decompose.

Its not as if I am building up a stockpile of spare bages or 'losing them' either. My behavior has not changed, and I am sure I am wasting more plastic than I used to.

Should I bite the bullet and buy bin liner bags and save the planet?

Maybe I should just keep going back to the place that has the bio bags? I would feel better and at least it should be better.

Anyone else out there as lazy as I am?

Change what I do....? I changed the doo doo

The old bags were perfect for a weekly dog sh!t pickup by my teenage son.

Now we use a bin bag that is 3x the size.

Yup saving the world ............

It did make me realise though, that every time you buy veggies, put an extra plastic bag in the 'free' ones from the grocery section as the weight is negligible, so you get free freezer bags.

We would use less plastic bags now than before I think. When the bags were available at the checkout it was easy to forget the cloth ones, now I never forget. The bags we got were re-used for rubbish and the like but we got more bags than we could use so they would end up in the bin eventually, every now and then I wish I had one as they had their uses.

As for saving the planet, I think most of us basically live the same way, some more messy than others, what I don't like is the name calling that is now common. We have Deniers, Alarmist, Believers and non-Believers, but the actions are what count. My father is a stead fast Denier and sends on the email rubbish that he gets etc, (he is also a scientist) but I am sure his carbon foot print is tiny compared to the average Believer, just through sheer tight arsedness.

With the plastic the supermarkets save , they can give away plastic wrapped plastic toys
And , they would be selling a huge amount of bin liners now .
The whole things a joke !

Yes. Now I pay 5c a bag. Use them as trash bags in the sink then tie them up and put them in the trash. It gets collected twice a week and "recycled".

We're pretty efficient at using petroleum products, and aside from them ending up in the ocean (how?!?!) plastic bags have a lower negative impact on the environment than the cotton bags you're now forced to pay $1 for every time I go to the supermarket then just throw them out when I get home

righto, 13 years ago living in france we were made to change over to reusable sacks, i still have leclerc, giant casino, carrefour, sacks and still going strong, we did a little self survey a while back on a standard shop for our family in wa , now were not big eaters , the shop packed our groceries into 28 woolworth bags plus all the packaging, the planets farked was our conclusion to our inhouse survey

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Mark _australia said..The old bags were perfect for a weekly dog sh!t pickup by my teenage son.

I call bull$hit on this one.....ever tried to get a teenager to pick up dog sh!t

by the time the complaining, whinging, delaying tactics have run their course, the poo has either composted, been mowed, or walked through the house

I now grab a couple of the bags from the fruit and veg section to use for the dog poo pick up.

All my shopping is as-hoc so I never remember to take the bags. Luckily my local IGA has 'boomerang' bags to borrow or they stack their empty boxes to use...

Yep, re-usable bags are left in both our cars for getting shopping from the local IGA. We don't buy a bag unless we absolutely have to and we use any old bags we can get our hands on as rubbish bags now ie bread bags, fruit and vegetable bags, whatever we can scrounge up. And yep Imax, that plastic trinket promotion thingo gave me the sh!ts

I was returning disposable bags before the change. Prior to noticing that Colesworths had bins to take back the single use bags I had been reusing bags that the SMH had given away years ago when papers were actually on paper.
What I'm confused about now is the plastics bins for return of soft plastic packaging that the supermarkets have. Should I or should I not be including those metallised chip and biscuit packets? What about the plastics that have paper stickers on them?

We lived in the UK and you had to bring your own and bag it yourself.

We used to use the bags as kitchen bin liners. Now we dont... just clean out the bin when its emptied on bin day. No big deal.

I do buy shopping according to how many bags I have - its self limiting.
I have on occaison taken the basket or trolley out to the car...

On the whole, No big deal... does seem a little bit whiny some of the carry on here with the changeover.


And definitely f**k the majors with their holier than thou bag ban followed by plastic toy promotion bull****.

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Harrow said..
I now grab a couple of the bags from the fruit and veg section to use for the dog poo pick up.

When I was a boy bags were made of paper. You had to be careful. A weathered dog poo can look like a piece of chalk. No felt tip marker pens back then either. We sure were eco friendly.

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Ian K said..

Harrow said..
I now grab a couple of the bags from the fruit and veg section to use for the dog poo pick up.

When I was a boy bags were made of paper. You had to be careful. A weathered dog poo can look like a piece of chalk. No felt tip marker pens back then either. We sure were eco friendly.

Paper Bags, you were lucky .Luxury lad, pure luxury , When I was a boy we made our bags out of long flat grass.

Yep, use the green bags, corn based garbage bags and no more glad wrap. Using the bees wax wraps and plastic containers for food

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Mark _australia said..The old bags were perfect for a weekly dog sh!t pickup by my teenage son.

I call bull$hit on this one.....ever tried to get a teenager to pick up dog sh!t

by the time the complaining, whinging, delaying tactics have run their course, the poo has either composted, been mowed, or walked through the house

My brother and I were supposed to do it when we were teenagers.

Didn't take me too long to figure out that if the shovel was held correctly one could flip the product out of the yard into the street. Used to give me great pleasure.!

no more bags when shopping? no problem!

plus you can leave your shopping anywhere and no one touches it

And still the big two supermarkets package more and more fruit n veg in little plastic boxes that are (1) unnecessary and (2) not reusable due to drain holes

They've made a million bucks out of selling 15c "reuseable" bags to the forgetful, and nothing has changed environmentally.

School kids then go protest as they saw something about Greta somebody on Insta.

Saving the world...

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cauncy said..
righto, 13 years ago living in france we were made to change over to reusable sacks, i still have leclerc, giant casino, carrefour, sacks and still going strong, we did a little self survey a while back on a standard shop for our family in wa , now were not big eaters , the shop packed our groceries into 28 woolworth bags plus all the packaging, the planets farked was our conclusion to our inhouse survey

I live in France and like you said havnt been able to get plastic bags here for years. That's not going to save the planet though.
People do understand "recycled" means put in a container and shipped to a 3rd world country.
Shipping is the largest problem. Because it is cheaper to buy it somewhere else or send it somewhere else. What ever it is.

When I was a kid, my mum would put my sandwich in a paper bag. I would fold the bag carefully and take it home again and it would last a week doing that. My kids now have these beeswax impregnated cloths that they wrap their lunch in for school and uni, and then they bring them home and rinse them. They've lasted a year so far.

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. My kids now have these beeswax impregnated cloths that they wrap their lunch in for school and uni, and then they bring them home and rinse them.

Back in the day my Grandma would have boiled them up in the copper.

medicalxpress.com/news/2019-09-energy-efficient-machine-harboring-pathogens.html

Here they banned single use bags a few months ago. The only difference we found is we now have to buy plastic bags to use in our bins.
Also stores are allowed to/have to use single use bags for produce and meat so your apple gets its own plastic bag before it's put in your paper one, why not just have a slightly bigger apple bag and put all your shopping in it and save some trees.

Plus one for the Beeswax wraps.
Bit skeptical at first but they are the shizzle!

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FormulaNova said..
Just out of interest, who has changed their use of plastic bags?

I know its not going to be popular, but I very seldom reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket. I use them as rubbish bags, and for storing stuff, but that's about it. The same as I did before the changes, just that my rubbish is held in a bullet proof heavy duty bag now instead of the lighter bags it used to be. Every now and then I go to a supermarket that has the lighter bio-degradeable type, so at least I know the rubbish bag will eventually decompose.

Its not as if I am building up a stockpile of spare bages or 'losing them' either. My behavior has not changed, and I am sure I am wasting more plastic than I used to.

Should I bite the bullet and buy bin liner bags and save the planet?

Maybe I should just keep going back to the place that has the bio bags? I would feel better and at least it should be better.

Anyone else out there as lazy as I am?

Asshole

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myusernam said..

FormulaNova said..
Just out of interest, who has changed their use of plastic bags?

I know its not going to be popular, but I very seldom reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket. I use them as rubbish bags, and for storing stuff, but that's about it. The same as I did before the changes, just that my rubbish is held in a bullet proof heavy duty bag now instead of the lighter bags it used to be. Every now and then I go to a supermarket that has the lighter bio-degradeable type, so at least I know the rubbish bag will eventually decompose.

Its not as if I am building up a stockpile of spare bages or 'losing them' either. My behavior has not changed, and I am sure I am wasting more plastic than I used to.

Should I bite the bullet and buy bin liner bags and save the planet?

Maybe I should just keep going back to the place that has the bio bags? I would feel better and at least it should be better.

Anyone else out there as lazy as I am?

Asshole

Oh come on, I prefer the Aussie spelling. The American one doesn't seem quite right.

Maybe they need to put the price of re-usable plastic bags up. Those dog poo ones give me the sch!ts, especially when you see them blowing like a ribbon from the dispenser and across the carpark in a 25kn southeaster

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Paddles B'mere said..
Maybe they need to put the price of re-usable plastic bags up. Those dog poo ones give me the sch!ts, especially when you see them blowing like a ribbon from the dispenser and across the carpark in a 25kn southeaster

Have never been upset, nor noticed anything other than the bowing trees, people on water and white caps, during a 25kn southerly

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FormulaNova said..

myusernam said..

FormulaNova said..
Just out of interest, who has changed their use of plastic bags?

I know its not going to be popular, but I very seldom reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket. I use them as rubbish bags, and for storing stuff, but that's about it. The same as I did before the changes, just that my rubbish is held in a bullet proof heavy duty bag now instead of the lighter bags it used to be. Every now and then I go to a supermarket that has the lighter bio-degradeable type, so at least I know the rubbish bag will eventually decompose.

Its not as if I am building up a stockpile of spare bages or 'losing them' either. My behavior has not changed, and I am sure I am wasting more plastic than I used to.

Should I bite the bullet and buy bin liner bags and save the planet?

Maybe I should just keep going back to the place that has the bio bags? I would feel better and at least it should be better.

Anyone else out there as lazy as I am?

Asshole

Oh come on, I prefer the Aussie spelling. The American one doesn't seem quite right.

Is an Asshole a butt thing or an hunting pitt with spikes to catch a donkey ?
Stop me now , just imagine what I could come up with when I'm drinking

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Imax1 said..

FormulaNova said..

myusernam said..

FormulaNova said..
Just out of interest, who has changed their use of plastic bags?

I know its not going to be popular, but I very seldom reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket. I use them as rubbish bags, and for storing stuff, but that's about it. The same as I did before the changes, just that my rubbish is held in a bullet proof heavy duty bag now instead of the lighter bags it used to be. Every now and then I go to a supermarket that has the lighter bio-degradeable type, so at least I know the rubbish bag will eventually decompose.

Its not as if I am building up a stockpile of spare bages or 'losing them' either. My behavior has not changed, and I am sure I am wasting more plastic than I used to.

Should I bite the bullet and buy bin liner bags and save the planet?

Maybe I should just keep going back to the place that has the bio bags? I would feel better and at least it should be better.

Anyone else out there as lazy as I am?

Asshole

Oh come on, I prefer the Aussie spelling. The American one doesn't seem quite right.

Is an Asshole a butt thing or an hunting pitt with spikes to catch a donkey ?
Stop me now , just imagine what I could come up with when I'm drinking

I think its the second thing. You cover it with palm fronds and wait for the donkey to walk over the top. I think they are redundant now that Coles sell meat trays.

with just 3 at home and the supermarkets taking soft plastics ,we are down to 1/4 of a wheelie bin per month and 1 recycling bin a week.no food scraps in bin as the 2 chooks eat anything and way rent in eggs. no plastic bags in bin. for all the effort we make ,my neighbour simply empties his car by pushing **** out the door when he goes out