Originally Posted by Darield (Post 2458944)

Lately I have been getting feeds on my phone about foods and products to avoid to reduce our consumption of micro plastics. So this has obviously become a problem since we are even finding this nasty stuff in our livestock our soil and of course The Ocean. I decided to ask several stores how many plastic bags they go through a day and the common answer was between 4-7,000 A DAY! I then looked up approximately how may grocery stores are in Florida? Approximately 20,000. If I multiply 20,000 x 3,000 bags (a very conservative number). Just in Florida we are using approximately 60 million plastic bags a day!! We don't have the manpower to recycle this plastic (latest figures are between 5 and 6% gets recycled) so the majority ends up in landfills, the ocean or best yet, we burn it in huge trash facilities. Please use reusable grocery bags.
If this interests you, here are some links to read more;
5 Things You Need to Know About How Florida Banned Plastic Bags - Debris Free Oceans
plastic-bags/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worsehttps://shunpoly.com/article/how-much-of-the-usas-plastic-is-recycled

Originally Posted by Velvet (Post 2458955)

I keep using them and reusing them for art. I also take a whole bunch up north with me as the bags up north have become very expensive and cumbersome and unhygienic. I do keep mine out of the garbage though because of all the dear creatures that can choke on them.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2458954)

If I don't put my groceries into plastic bags from the check-out, then I'll have to buy plastic bags so I can clean the litter-box every day. I much prefer to re-use. I also use these bags for the little waste bins under each of our two bathroom sinks, and I don't throw them away until they're completely filled up. Usually once every month or so. I ALSO keep a couple of them in my car, in case I have trash from the drive-through or candy wrappers or whatever else. I ALSO keep a few in my suitcase, so when I'm visiting family, I have a place to put my dirty clothes at bedtime.

I say - use whatever makes you comfortable but IF you choose plastic, make every effort to re-use them.

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki (Post 2458966)

So in New Jersey, plastic bags are illegal. All groceries come in a petroleum based, type bag. You know what we do with those bags, throw them away.
Know what we did with the old plastic bags, put them in the bathroom trash cans, picked up dog poops, etc.
Now we also need to buy poop bags.

Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2458960)

For those who wish to ban plastic bags, what do you propose as an alternative? What will I pick up dog poop with? What will we put our garbage in at the curb?

Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2458970)

Recycling is the biggest scam in the last 50 years.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2458971)

Dog poop. Bucket and shovel. Take home and flush it?
Garbage? Remember metal trash/garbage cans?

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2458956)

If you keep them out of the garbage, then what do you do with them, when it's time to discard them (if they get torn, or dirty)?

Something you can do, when it is time to toss them in the trash - is cut the handles. It prevents critters from sticking their heads through the hole and being unable to dislodge the bag from their neck. You should do that with 6-pack plastic doodads as well.

Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2458990)

No going back. That ship has sailed.

Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2458989)

Second biggest.
Climate change is #1.
I'll believe it when the elites who go on about it stop flying in private jets.

Originally Posted by Keith1911 (Post 2459006)

I remember being shamed into choosing plastic over paper 20 years ago...you know save the rain forest and all. How is that working out for us???

Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2458953)

Something to think about?

This won't make my Top 1000 things to think about, it's all fake news.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2458956)

If you keep them out of the garbage, then what do you do with them, when it's time to discard them (if they get torn, or dirty)?

Something you can do, when it is time to toss them in the trash - is cut the handles. It prevents critters from sticking their heads through the hole and being unable to dislodge the bag from their neck. You should do that with 6-pack plastic doodads as well.

Originally Posted by Darield (Post 2458944)

Lately I have been getting feeds on my phone about foods and products to avoid to reduce our consumption of micro plastics. So this has obviously become a problem since we are even finding this nasty stuff in our livestock our soil
and of course The Ocean. I decided to ask several stores how many plastic bags they go through a day and the common answer was between 4-7,000 A DAY! I then looked up approximately how may grocery stores are in Florida? Approximately 20,000. If I multiply 20,000 x 3,000 bags (a very conservative number). Just in Florida we are using approximately 60 million plastic bags a day!! We don't have the manpower to recycle this plastic (latest figures are between 5 and 6% gets recycled) so the majority ends up in landfills, the ocean or best yet, we burn it in huge trash facilities. Please use reusable grocery bags.
If this interests you, here are some links to read more;
5 Things You Need to Know About How Florida Banned Plastic Bags - Debris Free Oceans
plastic-bags/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worsehttps://shunpoly.com/article/how-much-of-the-usas-plastic-is-recycled

Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2459002)

I put "Recycling" at number one, because it started before the "Climate Change" scam ... but there's no question they're the biggest scams of our lives.

Originally Posted by Darield (Post 2458944)

Lately I have been getting feeds on my phone about foods and products to avoid to reduce our consumption of micro plastics. So this has obviously become a problem since we are even finding this nasty stuff in our livestock our soil and of course The Ocean. I decided to ask several stores how many plastic bags they go through a day and the common answer was between 4-7,000 A DAY! I then looked up approximately how may grocery stores are in Florida? Approximately 20,000. If I multiply 20,000 x 3,000 bags (a very conservative number). Just in Florida we are using approximately 60 million plastic bags a day!! We don't have the manpower to recycle this plastic (latest figures are between 5 and 6% gets recycled) so the majority ends up in landfills, the ocean or best yet, we burn it in huge trash facilities. Please use reusable grocery bags.
If this interests you, here are some links to read more;
5 Things You Need to Know About How Florida Banned Plastic Bags - Debris Free Oceans
plastic-bags/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worsehttps://shunpoly.com/article/how-much-of-the-usas-plastic-is-recycled

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2458948)

Sorry, but I like the plastic bags and I will keep using them.

Originally Posted by defrey12 (Post 2459134)

Me too...

Originally Posted by nn0wheremann (Post 2459097)

Repurpose them as trash can liners and make energy with the garbage collection

Originally Posted by La lamy (Post 2459028)

But I strongly disagree with the grocery size plastic bags being used for single use dog waste. What a waste!!! Even the smaller grocery veggie bags or buying dog waste bags seems a lot more reasonable IMHO.

Originally Posted by luvdancin (Post 2459083)

I lived in CA for 25 years. They did away with bags. So, you have these people who bring gross, cockroach infested, meat juice covered bags that are left in their filthy trunk. Those bags go on the counter cross-contaminating everything else.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2459145)

Most all of us will. But, like alcohol or tobacco, doesn’t mean it's a good thing.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2459147)

Energy? How? How much? Any "waste" or "byproducts" with that? Like smoke, soot, toxic run-off, etc containing microplastics? Inquiring minds want to know!

Originally Posted by luvdancin (Post 2459083)

I just had to comment on this. I lived in CA for 25 years. They did away with bags. So, you have these people who bring gross, cockroach infested, meat juice covered bags that are left in their filthy trunk. Those bags go on the counter contaminatinating everything else. Just saying that it was not a good thing. I use my bags in the car, waste baskets and over and over again. I was SO happy that FL didn't do away with their bags.