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New Bag taxes.
Virginia state government has lots of restrictions on what municipalities can do regarding taxes and fees. DC has had a plastic bag tax for ages. Virginia finally passed a law recently that allowed municipalities to impose a $0.05/bag fee. So my area is finally starting to roll that out.

Reusable bags were strongly discouraged by many retailers last year. I expect they'll let people start using them again now.

Little things like this need to be much more common. Paper containers (instead of everything being in effectively non-recycleable plastic) need to come back as well...

Cheers,
Scott.
New I can hear the screams from the supply chain already
"But food won't survive a cross-country trip and three weeks on the shelves without the packaging!" Well then don't ship it cross-country. Produce it (more) locally.

"But then you won't be able to get strawberries in Cleveland in January!" OK, and ... ?

"But we'll have to change what, when and where we sell everything!" Yes, you're getting the picture.
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Drew
New Ecology & taxes
Here in California disposable plastic bags are not allowed at check-out and reusables are $0.10 by law. Single use bags within grocery markets are still allowed - to prevent starting a revolution.

I just have everything put back in the cart and bag what needs bagging at the car - which has quite a load of reusable bags.

This thing about "paper" always amuses me. I've been involved (peripherally) with the ecology movement for so long that I remember what set off the whole ecology movement in the first place. It was extreme pollution from, you guessed it, Paper Companies.
New I like how they do it at Costco
They take all the cardboard cases the product ships to them in and stack them up by the registers. Grab a couple while you're waiting in line, and when they scan your stuff they'll load right into the boxes you just grabbed.

Aldi has them too sometimes, depending on what they got a shipment of that day.
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Drew
New TJs will do that with wine if you want.
Makes sense, but in practice it puts the recycling in the hands of the customer rather than the company. I just have them put them in my cloth grocery bags (without the stupid paper sleeves please!) instead.

Yeah, paper production is dirty. I remember Ben Tilly talking about it, back in the day... Still, it's stuff from the biosphere, rather than 100M year old fossil fuel being brought to the surface...

There are no easy answers, but some are better than others.

Cheers,
Scott.
New When I shopped at TJs . . .
. . I knew where the boxes were piled, so I just grabbed one before hitting the checkout line.

Haven't been in a Trader Joe's since the COVID hit. Standing a half hour in a line waiting to get in didn't appeal to me. Sunland produce started stocking a mountain of the beer I bought there, and everything else I bought there was easy to replace elsewhere. I was already buying all my wine from Sunland Produce, better wine for lower cost.

Boxes, I saw them up with a serrated bread knife and use the cardboard, with used paper napkins under it and a small bit of wood over, to start a small short fire every morning. I'm a Pagan, you see, and we like our little ritual fires, and it keeps us on the good side of the Fire Gods.
New Happens here.
Local liquor chain Dan Murphy's does that, as does big-box hardware store Bunnings.

Wade
New But then you need to subtract all the FoodSaver repackaging plastic...
New What's in a name? (A piece of trash, by any other name, will still stink to high heaven...)
Here in California disposable plastic bags are not allowed at check-out and reusables are $0.10 by law.
How many people throw away their "reusables" after first use, effectively making them disposable? And conversely, what's to stop anyone from re-using their "disposables"?

It's just names, not necessarily reality.
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   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything


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     Not sure where to put this, paying for trash - (crazy) - (26)
         I wish we'd get real about plastic - (drook) - (20)
             Thankfully over here it is starting to move, albeit slowly - (pwhysall) - (3)
                 "Plastic cartons" sounds a bit of an oxymoron. YTH don't they use cardboard like sensible people? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2)
                     Bottles, then. UHT milk tends to come in cardboard cartons - (pwhysall) - (1)
                         We must have extra-hardy fridge-resistant cardboard up here then... - (CRConrad)
             The problem is that it's just cheaper to use virgin material. - (static) - (15)
                 Put the cost of recycling into the tax - (drook) - (14)
                     Here in California . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (13)
                         Someone with more time to look into this should crunch the numbers - (drook) - (12)
                             Yes. - (static) - (11)
                                 We have (smallish) media "scandals" here from time to time, when municipalities... - (CRConrad)
                                 We've got to pull the "Reduce" lever harder - (drook) - (9)
                                     Bag taxes. - (Another Scott) - (8)
                                         I can hear the screams from the supply chain already - (drook)
                                         Ecology & taxes - (Andrew Grygus) - (6)
                                             I like how they do it at Costco - (drook) - (4)
                                                 TJs will do that with wine if you want. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                                     When I shopped at TJs . . . - (Andrew Grygus)
                                                 Happens here. - (static)
                                                 But then you need to subtract all the FoodSaver repackaging plastic... -NT - (scoenye)
                                             What's in a name? (A piece of trash, by any other name, will still stink to high heaven...) - (CRConrad)
         I got five to 10 van loads that I have to get rid of. - (crazy) - (4)
             Craigslist free, someone will come for the compressor -NT - (drook) - (3)
                 I gave him a week - (crazy) - (2)
                     craigslist free to gleaners and metall recyclers - (boxley)
                     WTF, you got a free compressor, shouldn't you be over the moon? -NT - (CRConrad)

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