Or just carry your groceries in your pantyhose imo.

Lol cans, just make a cup with your hands.

I've worked for 3 different supermarket chains. I can assure you they end up in the trash at least half the time.

Plastic bags suck and paper aren't really any better. I know it's bad form and all to be self-righteous, but getting new bags when you get groceries is bad. You all should stop doing that.

Haven't you guys seen blue planet 2? You're killing all the turtles!

Do plastic bags actually have any real environmental impact? They weigh virtually nothing and don't take up any space. What is supposed to be the problem with them?

Are you serious?

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/e...garbage-patch/

How many states charge you for plastic bags?

How do the bags get in the ocean though? Doesn't trash generally go to landfills?

pretty sure sushy was from aussieland too. seems they have tendency to be racist and xenophobic. also, they are just now struggling over gay marriage its not like its an enlightened western europe type society.

Wife and I found two good strategies. First, buy bags that are useful. When we go to buy a lot of frozen things, we always remember our insulated bags.

Second, buy bugs you find visually appealing. Wife always remembers to bring this one bag cuz the art style is cool and it has a cute monster on it.

TS too. I mean, he was partly trolling, but I expect he actually does believe a lot of his Neo-Nazi bull****.

It's kind of like how all the Scandinavian posters who come here are MRA shut-ins. Obv not representative of the population as a whole.

very few. only california has banned disposable plastic bags (and puerto rico, and american samoa). charges have been introduced in a fair few places, but it's at the local level, not the state level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-...t_plastic_bags

unsurprisingly when it comes to environmental issues, the US lags behind more enlightened countries like botswana, moldova and papua new guinea, among many others.

in case anyone was wondering, such charges are extremely effective at changing people's behaviour, e.g.

So you're saying

Jesus Bobman. People have been talking about plastic in the environment, especially the ocean, your whole life. You can't be this oblivious. You weren't raised by wolves. Just spit out that you don't believe or you don't care.

If I had a choice between the free and the $0.10 bags, I'd take the $0.10 bags every time. They're good enough that they seem more like $0.50 bags.

The specific question I was trying to understand is whether there is any particular harm associated with properly disposed-of plastic bags.

Now I'm starting to question whether I'm wasting my time by separating plastic beverage rings before throwing them in the garbage.

We have our own orange moron here, this woman Pauline Hanson who is sort of a Sarah Palin figure. Way back in 1996 she gave a speech to Parliament in which she said "I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate". She was duly crucified in the media and that was the catalyst for her to become Patient Zero in a movement of people who were sick of being talked down to by egghead liberals. I think that is the similarity with Trumpism, and perhaps the difference from other nationalist movements like UKIP, that at its heart it isn't really about policy, it's cultural resentment. It's people with idiotic beliefs who are furious about being told by chardonnay-swilling elitists that their beliefs are idiotic. You can see that pretty clearly with Sushy and bundy, right? TS is a whole other deal, I doubt he's even a Hanson fan.

In addition to ethno-nationalism, Hanson's party has also frequently trafficked in hare-brained schemes similar to "build a wall!", i.e. ludicrously simplistic answers to complex problems, which libruls can't see are obvious because their heads are all muddled from too much book-learnin'. It's pretty similar to Trumpism, so Hanson fans are generally also Trump enthusiasts. This is maybe 10% of the population at most btw, mostly safely corralled in Queensland. Trump's approval rating here during his candidacy was 10%, presumably lower now.

btw, 20 years later, Asians have now basically been grandfathered in as Real Australians. The new Threat is Muslims, obviously, goes without saying. A few months back Hanson wore a burka in Parliament as a political statement of something or other.

Don't test him, next he might vote for Trump!

strictly speaking, its definitly easier to sack someones groceries in plastic than it is in paper bags. at my grocery store the laziest employees there, this happens:
"would you like paper or plastic?"
"paper"
"sigh"

the difference isnt big enough for anyone with a modicum of work effort to care though.

What plastic beverage rings? You're buying 6-packs at 7/11? You're posting from 15 years ago? Are those even legal anymore?

And it takes 1000 years for a plastic bag to decompose. There is no such thing as proper disposal.

Will Trump boycott KFC after this



https://twitter.com/KFC_UKI/status/948525809840656385

I buy the cheapo kroger-brand tonic water and club soda in cans, they still use the turtle-nooses.

Local microbreweries that can their beer have started using these hard plastic things that cover the entire tops of the cans, they're a pain in the ass and I would guess turtles could still get caught in them, only you can't cut the loops with scissors.