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Old 01-23-2020, 07:01 AM
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Because those plastic bags--and those plastic water bottles, by the way--can only be recycled once, twice at the most. After that they end up in the land fill unless some enterprising company can figure out how to make benches or playground equipment out of them.


Don't kid yourself about recycling. It doesn't really work. Reducing and reusing is the way to go.
Or, the Villages could choose to send ALL of its waste, and un-recyclables - to a waste-to-energy plant where it is incinerated and the energy is recovered as electricity that is sent back for us to run our air conditioners - i.e. sustainable, clean, renewable energy.
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You are correct. The "reusable" type of bags are not as great a thing as people think. Yes, they will get contaminated and most people will not wash after every use. So, the risk of getting sick from something will go up. Why not biodegradable plastic bags or recycled paper bags for some applications.
i agree. save plastic for messy/leaky items, and GOOD QUALITY paper bags like trader joe's have, for all the rest
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Or, the Villages could choose to send ALL of its waste, and un-recyclables - to a waste-to-energy plant where it is incinerated and the energy is recovered as electricity that is sent back for us to run our air conditioners - i.e. sustainable, clean, renewable energy.
More food for thought;
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Australia has never used plastic bags and no one there died of contamination. I lived there 25 years ago & have used canvas bags ever since. Our country is backward compared to other countries in recycling and proper use of our resources. I wash my canvas bags occasionally, but not after every single use. Our society has become paranoid about germs. We all have germs. We actually need germs & bacteria.
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This is a pet peeve of mine. I spoke to the manager at the Publix at Colony to suggest that those who wish to use their reusable bags should have dedicated checkout lines. Those who check out invariably slow the line by directing/instructing how their groceries are packed and the rest of us have to wait. While I'm at it, just got back from Disney. The use paper straws everywhere, served in plastic cups. Makes no sense. Furthermore, they control your A/C in the room you paid thousands to stay in. People, it's all about control.
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I don't think I have read so much 'sky is falling' nonsence for a long time.
If this small TOTV site is a reflection of US society as a whole, over a piddling thing like shopping bags, God help you if something serious happens.
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This morning I read a story online in the Albany, N.Y. newspaper about a local grocery store chain charging 5 cents for paper bags. The story had some info. that people may or may not find interesting. New York State has a statewide ban on plastic grocery bags that takes effect on March 1.

Price Chopper to start charging 5 cents for paper bags
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Cool While on the subject of plastic bags.

Why are we using clear plastic bags for recycling we should have recycle bins think of how many bags we use each week in the villages.
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As of Jan. 1, 2020, Oregon banned all plastic bags from grocery stores. This sounds environmentally friendly, but there is a huge health hazard, too. The University of Arizona and Loma Linda University have both discovered unacceptable amounts of ecoli and salmonella bacteria in cloth and canvas bags used for bagging groceries. Meat juices tend to leak onto the material and can contaminate everything in your bag. Their suggestions are that you put the canvas and cloth bags thru your washing machine on hot water after every use. If you use the insulated bags to keep meat and ice cream cold until you get home, wipe the interior down with anti-bacterial wipes after every use. Please don’t be careless about this, as it appears plastic bags are on the way out nationwide.😉
If you are using non-plastic bags at the grocery store, what are you using for the garbage can under the sink, in the bathrooms etc.? That is a second use of the stores cheap plastic bags which, of course, is not as many as the canvas bags. I'm curious as we are moving to McClure in April and was planning on shopping at Publix.
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If you are using non-plastic bags at the grocery store, what are you using for the garbage can under the sink, in the bathrooms etc.? That is a second use of the stores cheap plastic bags which, of course, is not as many as the canvas bags. I'm curious as we are moving to McClure in April and was planning on shopping at Publix.
I buy tall kitchen can bags for kitchen garbage. If "they" come up with a biodegradable alternative of that size, I'll use it.


As for bathroom waste cans, we never have to throw anything in there that would make a mess. It's all dry goods. I've been using the same can liner and just adding the contents to the kitchen bag on trash day. Alternatively, I could use a cloth bag and wash it.
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To legitimize the extra effort and energy consumption that producing tote bags requires, consumers need to use their reusable bags—a lot. One study out of the United Kingdom found that you’d have to reuse a cotton tote 327 times to achieve the same carbon-usage ratio as using a paper bag seven times, or plastic bag used twice. As strange as it sounds, plastic bags have the lightest per-use impact of the various bags the study examined. Cotton totes, on the other hand, in terms of production and distribution, actually have according to the Atlantic, “the highest and most severe global-warming potential by far.”
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We donate to all the animal rescue organizations and over the years they have sent us about 5 cloth shopping bags, so we've been using them. Whenever the cashier picks them up, I'll tell them, use them however you want. All the ones we have look like this, pictures of animals on the outside and people always comment that they are a great looking bag.

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I'm sure that Oregons efforts to reduce plastic will have a profound effect on the amount of plastic tossed away. Most articles I read about this waste shows that it is almost always the asian countries that use the most and contaminate the oceans worst with tossing the bags in the garbage. But our leaders and educated friends will still try to save the world with our wallets.
It would be nice if the U.S. can be a model for other countries rather than sinking to the level of their selfish actions.
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This morning I read a story online in the Albany, N.Y. newspaper about a local grocery store chain charging 5 cents for paper bags. The story had some info. that people may or may not find interesting. New York State has a statewide ban on plastic grocery bags that takes effect on March 1.

Price Chopper to start charging 5 cents for paper bags
Stop & Shop charges for paper bags, so does Aldi's.
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Why are we using clear plastic bags for recycling we should have recycle bins think of how many bags we use each week in the villages.
1. I have a recycling bin. Lake County will provide you with one if you live in Lake County, or you can buy one. We brought ours down from Connecticut and use that.
2. To prevent BUGS in the house - we wash our recyclables, but it's still safer to keep the stuff actually contained. So we re-use grocery bags. We also will contain stuff in whatever other plastic bags or cardboard boxes that end up in our house. We don't use fresh new bags for recycling, ever, and we definitely don't use clear bags. The trash guys will dump out the contents of the bin and put the bin back on the lawn. If the stuff in the bin is not contained in bags or boxes, it's harder for them to dump it and replace the bin.
3. I agree that every household should have at least one recycling bin. They're small, will hold only two grocery bags full of stuff at a time. So they don't take up a lot of room, and they're not unsightly and don't smell since everything that's in there is either never-dirtied or washed by the homeowner.
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