The Wordless Picture Thread

[cudarunner]

I try to minimize my use of plastic bags, I'll often just take things in hand or have everything put in one bag (the checkers and baggers are always insisting to double bag)

I do take bags back to reuse. Washington State's legislature currently has a bill banning plastic bags but it failed last year. One of the sticking points is that the paper bags had to contain something like 40% recycled material. Banning plastic bags wouldn't be a big deal to me.

I'm thinking of having custom Harley Themed Bags made to use

[petercp4e]

We have a few stores around that have done away with plastic bags.
Some have done it voluntarily and some have had to follow town and city law, which varies.
You either take the item(s) in hand, bring your own bag or buy an enviromentally friendly bag for a small fee.
Many people are pissing and moaning about this.
I see nothing but a long term positive effect as the outcome.

Pete <:-}

[MikeB52]

Best bags ever.

Holds a ton, folds up to nearly nothing, and no plastic.
https://www.amazon.ca/Bekith-Shoppin...s%2C158&sr=8-3
They also have reusable produce bags that allow for rinsing produce while still in the bags.
https://www.amazon.ca/CTFT-Reusable-...NsaWNrPXRydWU=

And regarding plastic, would we be in this floating garbage dilemma if people didn’t litter?
Just wondering. Cruise ships, container barges, underdeveloped island nations?

[DZEC]

I’m old enough to remember brown paper bags of various sizes, including shopping bags. Folks bought flour, sugar or whatever by weight and took it home in those bags. Those bags had multiple uses once they came home from the store and they readily decomposed in landfills.

I also remember working in my parents’ store and wrapping deli goods and cheese in butcher paper held together with brown paper tape. This also decomposed in landfills.

Soda, milk, juice and other liquids came in glass bottles that had a deposit on them to encourage returns to the store that sold them.

Seems to me that we have been wasting our precious and finite petroleum reserves to make plastic containers that refuse to decompose in anyone’s lifetime, cost more in the long run than similar reusable packaging and quite likely leech nasty chemicals into whatever edibles they contain.

Sorry for the rant, but this is one time “progress” seems to be running backwards.

[cudarunner]

Best bags ever.

Holds a ton, folds up to nearly nothing, and no plastic.

And regarding plastic, would we be in this floating garbage dilemma if people didn’t litter?
Just wondering. Cruise ships, container barges, underdeveloped island nations?

Years ago a woman placed her bags on the belt ahead of her groceries and they were the coolest bags I've ever seen! I'm not quite sure how they were made but I believe that she had cut plastic grocery bags that she'd had groceries in into strips and then some how wove them into those bags.

Not only did they look cool, but man were they sturdy. They looked kind of likes this--

[32t]

My mother has made many bathroom style rugs woven out of plastic bags. She can tell you what store the bags were from by the color etc.

Also she has made some very interesting reusable grocery bags from bags like dog food or bird seed. She can center the pattern of the bag nicely so the bags look good!

[outback]

I remember when our large grocery stores, and some businesses, had incinerators. All waste products were burned, with barely a whisp of smoke.

I hate grocery bags with a passion, same with water, and pop bottles. And, OMG.! Last bottle of wild turkey that I bought was in a plastic bottle. WTF!!! Everyone knows, good whiskey only comes in a glass bottle, with a cork in it, not a damn plastic, screw cap..!!

[cudarunner]

I remember when our large grocery stores, and some businesses, had incinerators. All waste products were burned, with barely a whisp of smoke.

I hate grocery bags with a passion, same with water, and pop bottles. And, OMG.! Last bottle of wild turkey that I bought was in a plastic bottle. WTF!!! Everyone knows, good whiskey only comes in a glass bottle, with a cork in it, not a damn plastic, screw cap..!!

Time to bite the financial bullet and pick up some Knob Creek 120---it come with the desired bottling

[evnpar]

Oregon now bans plastic bags, but also charges you $0.05 for each paper bag, encouraging you to bring your own reusable bag. Since we can't use plastic bags, unless you bring your own, and therefore can't double wrap meat, I'm wondering how sanitary reusable bags are over time. This ban only went into effect on 1/1/20, and so far I keep forgetting to put reusable bags in my car on the way to the market, even though they are setting out in plane site, or once I get them into the car I forget to bring them into the market. This old dog has been shopping in the market for nearly 70 years, and it's hard to learn new tricks.

[Gasman]

My wife keeps a bag of reuseable bags in the back of her car. They are thick plastic and a couple are insulated. She has been using these bags for 12 years plus. I hate the plastic bags they give out too. Paper and glass would be nice to go back too.