August 6, 2009
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[Plastic]
Scenario 1:
Would you like a bag with your purchase today?
Scenario 2:
/salesperson just ignores me and doesn’t offer a bag until I ask for one
I don’t really know where this really affects, other than Toronto, but most retailers now are charging 5 cents generally for a plastic bag, when before it used to be a given (and hence free).There was a big hubub in the newspaper a long while back on how people thought it was a good/bad/stupid/smart/green idea.
Good – that plastic bags cause alot of garbage waste that doesn’t decompose(or extremely slowly atleast), and this would reduce usage
Bad - its kinda like saying “Yes i want to ruin the environment” , or “I’m too cheap to buy a 5c bag”; bags are also reused (i imagine) at home by most people
Stupid – people will continue to keep using plastic bags even if you restrict them, or they’ll go to a retailer that gives it for free.. etc etc
Smart - it’ll get us to start re-using our own bags, and stop buying plastic
Green - obvious
I personally love it.
Love it. Love it.
It may be a bit inconvenient at times but its kinda ghetto-cool to be able to walk around with your purchases in your hands instead of plastic bags.
Or now using re-usable bags is now fashionable (business idea!).
Not so good for the plastic bag industry who are laying their workers off and closing plants.. but hopefully this will create a market for those that can make re-useable bags instead.
Comments (2)
It’s SO weird. Some places don’t charge us for bags at all.
The Shopper’s near my house does not charge for bags, whereas other SDM’s do. I think they should be consistent if they were to put in this ‘rule’.
Sometimes I’ll forget.
Like this one time, I was shopping at No Frills or something.
And I bought a bunch of frozen Michelina entree’s and I had to shove like 6 of them into my LV bag. lol. It was ridiculous.
BTW, I re-usable bags are good, but I heard despite being bio-degradable and what not, they can build up bacteria from multiple uses =S