How Much Would They Need To Give You...

[klah]

... for you to bring your own cloth grocery bags instead of using the plastic bags?

 

[Ricemarine]

They give discounts?!

 

[MBentz]

I used to bag groceries. They would need to pay ME more to bag with those POS cloth bags.

Paper > Substitutes

 

[Zim Hosein]

How Much Would They Need To Give You...

$0.00, I throw everything in my messenger bag

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
They give discounts?!

In Ireland there is a $0.15 fee per bag, and their use has declined 90%. San Fran and L.A. are considering similar fees.

 

[venk]

$50 couldn't replace the value I get out of both Paper and Plastic bags. Sadly, fewer stores use paper these days.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: venk

Sadly, fewer stores use paper these days.

They cost 550% more than plastic bags.

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: venk

Sadly, fewer stores use paper these days.

They cost 550% more than plastic bags.

But they also save fossil fuels

 

[Viperoni]

One chain of grocery stores here charges 5cents per bag. They are a "lower end" grocery store, but they're doing fine.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: venk

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: venk

Sadly, fewer stores use paper these days.

They cost 550% more than plastic bags.

But they also save fossil fuels

And the paper ones make better toilet paper.

 

[Pepsi90919]

uh, cloth grocery bags?

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
uh, cloth grocery bags?

Plastic grocery bags use 12,000,000 barrels of oil each year in the US to manufacture, not including shipping. Cloth = reusable for years. You've never seen people who use them? They usually have $200 sandals and drive a Volvo.

 

[anno]

I'm fairly easily trainable.. if they gave me enough cloth bags for a big shop and then charged me for plastic, they really wouldn't need to pay/save me anything.. not having to take the plastic bags to be recycled would make it worth it.. but I'm not inclined to buy cloth gorcery sacks.

I'd still need 1 paper sack a week though, even if I had to pay for it.. paper grocery sacks are 'bout the cheapest cat toy goin', after those pull thingies offa milk jugs.. and they last longer

anno (there's probably 3712 plastic thingies from milk jugs under my stove..)

 

[FoBoT]

the whole thing is silly
go hug a tree and eat some granolla and quit worrying about bag/sack

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Viperoni
One chain of grocery stores here charges 5cents per bag. They are a "lower end" grocery store, but they're doing fine.

And they're still losing money on that. The large 1/6 size gusseted paper bags printed with the store logo are about 6 cents a pop. The standard size T-shirt shaped plastic bags are about a penny. Multiply that by thousands of customers per day and several bags average per customer and it's easy to see why the stores want you to use plastic or bring your own. The cost of paper adds up quickly.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: anno
I'm fairly easily trainable.. if they gave me enough cloth bags for a big shop and then charged me for plastic, they really wouldn't need to pay/save me anything.. not having to take the plastic bags to be recycled would make it worth it.. but I'm not inclined to buy cloth gorcery sacks.

I'd still need 1 paper sack a week though, even if I had to pay for it.. paper grocery sacks are 'bout the cheapest cat toy goin', after those pull thingies offa milk jugs.. and they last longer

anno (there's probably 3712 plastic thingies from milk jugs under my stove..)

Not to mention they made great book coverings for when you went to high school for your school books.