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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

The only thing I think you really need plastic bags for is trash. Need to be able to compress and tie.

Plastic bags for groceries was always a stupid nonsense. Paper bags fit more stuff, are easier to pack and their handles don't turn into string that garrote your hands. And obviously the reusable grocery bags are superior to both. Two of those will last me like five years before they start becoming dubious. Can't remember the last time I carried groceries in a classic plastic bag. I associate that with the 90s. Can't believe it's still a thing in any grocery store anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Anyone been to a state that has outlawed* banning of plastic bags? The roadsides are covered in - you guessed it - plastic bags stuck to fence lines.

*Yes that's a thing. And yes it is utterly stupid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Connecticut quit plastic bags around ghe same time too.

I saw one blowing in the wind as I was driving, realized, "damn I haven't seen one of those in a longgg time" It was like a relic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

It's shocking how much we had all just internalized seeing plastic bag litter. Our ban really did have a noticeable effect on the trash lying around. It's not just an invisible benefit "for the planet".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Maryland shut down plastic store bags a few years ago. We're doing just fine.

When I drove to another state that was still using the disposable plastic bags, I get a little nostalgia for the convenience factor, But it no longer seems like a hardship to either carrying my own bags or use paper, I do wish they would give me the option to spend an extra quarter a bag and not make them out of fuxking tissue paper though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

In Norway we made the plastic bags really expensive (about half an Euro atm) and it's working wonders. I still have a stash of them, but they're for special emergencies. The stores sell actual trash bags that's much smaller and thinner, and thus more convenient (for me at least) so that problem is taken care of as well.

I keep 4 reusable fabric bags around as well, two for shopping, 1 for glass and 1 for recyclable bottles.

I find that I much prefer this system. And I still have the option to pay 5kr for a plastic bag at store if I have to.

5kr for a bag is juuust enough for me to get my reusable bag at home if I want to make spontaneous trip to the store on my way home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

No more free bags for lining small trash cans, hiking trash and for the car

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Paper works for all of these purposes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yay more paper bags for my compost however

I don’t live in Norway but where I live in the US plastic bags have been illegal for years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm in one of these bagless wastelands. We use bags from the groceries themselves. Many of the products we buy are also in some form of closeable plastic and just get put into a second piece of plastic for the short trip home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I get mine from visiting family in MA, they always have so many extra

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