(NECRO) CA residents, are you annoyed with the ”no grocery bags” policy yet?

[SSSnail]

Soooo has anyone seen this actually happen yet? I haven't here in Orange County.

Yes, but most of the stores there just don't care about it anyways because of competition, so business goes on as usual. Essentially, they do the wise thing and bury that cost into the products, and flip a finger to the county because no no one really care anyways.

Even their implementation plan is a joke. The money gained from the bags fees are supposed to go back into the anti bags campaign, but as long as the store put a poster up that talks about warm fuzzy environmental bruhaha, it would suffice. Kinda like that whole additional tax for worker's health plan thing, just no oversights, no real solutions, just a bunch of feel-good jerk wads dreamed up of some bullshit and other idiots followed suite.

 

[preCRT]

So how often do you wash your reusable grocery bags?

I'll admit I never have. If they get dirty looking, I'll just toss them. Thanks to Staples repeated freebie bag give-aways I have quite a stash. Plus I only tend to use them at stores that don't offer free bags, like Price Rite, Save-a-lot, & Aldis.


I was irked to recently discover that Trader Joe's in Cambridge charged me 10¢ per bag, as this wasn't mentioned beforehand and is only in effect in Cambridge, not in their other locations.

 

[preCRT]

BTW, they charge 10¢ per paper bag.

 

[zerocool84]

Soooo has anyone seen this actually happen yet? I haven't here in Orange County.

When I first moved to Huntington Beach 2yrs ago they had that law and everywhere you got charged for plastic. Then it got repealed and since then I have yet to see it again.

 

[crashtech]

I was in the NW San Fernando Valley and they charge for paper bags there, there are no plastic bags.

 

[waggy]

the kitchen trashcan is bigger and uses full size garbage bags

the grocery bags go in bedrooms/bathrooms with the smaller trashcans

we put them in the bathrooms (2), office garbage (1) and in the cars. they get changed damn near every week. it eats up about 1/4th of what we get from the store.

most we take in for recycling.

 

[pete6032]

Plastic bags banned here in Chicago. It's annoying when you're out and remember you need to go to the store. You can buy a bag for 10 cents or most grocery stores give you a paper bag.

 

[Chiropteran]

Sometimes we see girl-scouts selling cookies outside a grocery store, as a fund raiser.

I imagine a future where girl scouts sell plastic grocery bags for $.09 per bag instead of cookies.

 

[Squisher]

Our local trash facility takes plastic grocery bags in our recycling program.