Can't wait to see what the 'People of Walmart" will use to carry their stuff to their car. Watched a guy stuffing his pockets with a basket full of stuff one day rather than pay the $0.05 :)
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Can't wait to see what the 'People of Walmart" will use to carry their stuff to their car. Watched a guy stuffing his pockets with a basket full of stuff one day rather than pay the $0.05 :)
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I see a new job opportunity for parking lot basket collectors.
However I do really hate plastic bags. I would trade any plastic bag in my life to get back plastic straws.
Well at 5 cents a bag, I think next shopping trip I will buy 100 more bags maybe 200. with what I have that will last me 2-4 years
Too bad they are not offering paper bags, I would buy and use those
How many tree does it take to make a fork now got a sliver from the knife lol.
I like the grocery bags they are good for small garbage bags .
I think Walmart is one of the most wasteful baggers lol. When you do a pick up from them they will give you 6 bags for 10 items hahah.
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15 cents each at any sobeys related store
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Originally Posted by fratri
The problem is you won't see them doing anything inside the store to eliminate 'single use' plastics because the alternatives will cost them way too much. Not using the plastic bags saves them money.
It's all smoke and mirrors like most of this climate change nonsense.
Reusable bags are really not a big deal. Having snowmobiled all over Ontario for 30 years seems every trail into town goes by the garbage dump.
I’ve been disgusted at every one with the hundreds of plastic grocery bags stuck in the trees and blowing around for a km in every direction
Changing from plastic bags is not going to save the world but if you have ever walked an ocean shoreline you must realize that the world needs less plastic in it
So-i (like all of us)collect garbage in my kitchen. Anything and everything what is not recyclable or not compostable.And will not turn in a stinky mess in a day or two.
Collect them in plastic bags.Mostly "second"hand grocery bags(re -use ).
If and when they fully cut out grocery bags- i will need to buy plastic garbage bags.
What will be the difference:
For the Environment-those purposedly made garbage bags are thicker-harder to break down.
For me- more expensive plastic bags.
The way we live now-plastic all around-and with consumerisam ,we are made to become a THROW away society-the grocery bags(if used properly)make up tiny bit of the world garbage.
I feel the same wayQuote:
Originally Posted by FishHog
I can say with relative confidence that not a single plastic straw or plastic bag that I have used and discarded will ever be found in an ocean or on the side of a road. They are all safely collected and contained in industrial-strength (3mm) Contractor Garbage Bags and wire tied closed. They, like everyone else's garbage in the township, is hauled out of our township to some large hole in the ground up north to become landfill. They are subsequentially covered in dirt and remained contained below the earth's surface for the next millennium or until they can develop a method of recycling that kind of waste that is cost effective.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
Good that you reuse. But you are only an experiment of one. Hardly relates to the rest of the worldQuote:
Originally Posted by gbk
If you really want to make a difference stop getting grocery bags and buy compostable garbage bags
Again bags aren’t going to solve the issue but reducing them does bring the issue up in peoples minds and maybe makes them think of the hundreds of little changes they can make to improve the world for the next generation
Not challenging-i hear You.Quote:
Originally Posted by FishHog
I hate garbage as much as the next guy.
I am not sure if You are aware of the fact ,that the compstable bags may-may not break down.Need certain environment to do so.
If not-sorry,no go.
At the other hand-my point is this: if anyone goes to any store,and buys stuff,many many stuff is packaged in a "BULLETPROOF "package.
Try to open them up without heavy tools.Do we need THAT?
Or-try to buy a soup in a cup-some come in 3 (TREE)wrappers. Cup-cardboard to protect,and the plastic wrap.
Now-with the COVID,even simple stuff which used to come unpackaged(bell peppers for instance)are all packaged in bags...............where all this ends up?
Who makes us use more plasctis then we absoultely need to?Big Companies-and our Government allows them to do so(who would not touch those subjects with an 8 feet pole)
Yet they beat the small guys (Environmental surcharge on Gas)
Same virtue signaling as emissison test,yet thrucks-heavy machinery would create pollution in 1 hr ,more then i will do in my life.
I'll miss small garbage bags. They are great for picking up dog poop in the back yard, tying it up and putting it in the garbage. :)
Plastic bags will be missed here to good for picking up doggy barf and strange animal parts dogs bring in to the house. Like possum foot raccoon foot squirrel footQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharon
Most people I know use them for garbage bags, so now you will need to pay double the price.
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We're big into recycling around our house. My pet peeve is water bottles. If every one of them disappeared off the face of the Earth today,I'd be a happy camper. If people want to have a drink of water,why can't they use a simple garden hose like we used to do? Need to take something to drink to the bush or lake,use a thermos or a reusable container. I hate to see them laying around the streets or woods or floating in a lake. Lots of other stores have said they'll stopped with plastic bags,but,they're still peddling them for .05 ea. We'll see how well Walmart does. Saying and doing are tqo different things.
Exactly my point-and these guys will last for a long while ,before breaking down.Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
That is what i would call a -SINGLE use garbage.
Trimmer-i 100% support You on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
That far,that i have "my own saying"-sort of: IF i would EVER by in power, I would simply put 1$ Environmental surcharge on them water bottles.
If one wants to be lazy-pay for it.
There-i would not mind the Government to go at it, as far as they like.
Cut out this garbage forever. After all-up until 25 years ago,no one was drinking TAP water from a bottle.We were just fine.
Agreed. Somehow tap water got bad for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
Walkerton aside Canada has the best tap water going
If people only knew where some of those water bottles were filled. Used to work with a guy who had a spring at his house. Nothing wrong with the water but him sitting at a laundry tub picking his nose, smoking cigarettes while filling his “spring water” bottles convinced me to never by one
I carry a growler full of tap water with ice made from tap water every day in the summer, it's easier than hiking to grab a bottle from the nearest pickup truck with a boiling cooler in the sun, then throw the bottles in the garbage because companies can't be bothered with recycling bins. Most of the single use plastic is perpetuated by laziness.
One of the biggest contributors to waste are the cardboard boxes that products are shipped to the store in. I’ve seen a lightbulb packed in 3 progressively larger boxes. Gotta be a better way.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
The examples of ridiculously over-packaged items is endless. We try to be diligent recyclers at our house too, but it really takes the wind out of my sails to see a 40 yard dumpster at work half-full of cardboard….makes you feel like like your efforts are a drop in the bucket
My 9 year old grandson made an interesting comment regarding the elimination of plastic bags and utensils, and replacing them with paper bags and wooden utensils. He said it would be bad for the environment because more trees will be cut down and milled to serve this purpose. I told him that when I was his age, we were using paper bags, straws, and forks, and switched to plastic thinking it would be better for the environment, but it has just created a new environmental issue. I said that we have gone in a big circle back to where we were fifty years ago.