I like how they do it at Costco

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Post #439,944 by drook 9/22/21 11:45:31 AM 9/22/21 11:45:31 AM Reply	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. -- Drew
Post #439,945 by Another Scott 9/22/21 1:11:30 PM 9/22/21 1:11:30 PM Reply	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.
Post #439,963 by Andrew Grygus 9/22/21 9:26:11 PM 9/22/21 9:26:11 PM Reply	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.
Post #439,962 by static 9/22/21 9:05:46 PM 9/22/21 9:05:46 PM Reply	Happens here. Local liquor chain Dan Murphy's does that, as does big-box hardware store Bunnings. Wade
Post #439,976 by scoenye 9/23/21 7:26:45 PM 9/23/21 7:26:45 PM Reply	But then you need to subtract all the FoodSaver repackaging plastic...

Not sure where to put this, paying for trash - (crazy) - (26) - Sept. 19, 2021, 10:21:33 AM EDT

I wish we'd get real about plastic - (drook) - (20) - Sept. 20, 2021, 07:57:41 AM EDT

Thankfully over here it is starting to move, albeit slowly - (pwhysall) - (3) - Sept. 20, 2021, 02:10:58 AM EDT

"Plastic cartons" sounds a bit of an oxymoron. YTH don't they use cardboard like sensible people? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2) - Sept. 20, 2021, 05:07:40 AM EDT

Bottles, then. UHT milk tends to come in cardboard cartons - (pwhysall) - (1) - Sept. 20, 2021, 06:01:59 AM EDT

We must have extra-hardy fridge-resistant cardboard up here then... - (CRConrad) - Sept. 20, 2021, 12:32:23 PM EDT

The problem is that it's just cheaper to use virgin material. - (static) - (15) - Sept. 20, 2021, 04:44:14 AM EDT

Put the cost of recycling into the tax - (drook) - (14) - Sept. 20, 2021, 08:05:48 AM EDT

Here in California . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (13) - Sept. 20, 2021, 11:31:16 AM EDT

Someone with more time to look into this should crunch the numbers - (drook) - (12) - Sept. 20, 2021, 02:59:57 PM EDT

Yes. - (static) - (11) - Sept. 21, 2021, 11:09:27 PM EDT

We have (smallish) media "scandals" here from time to time, when municipalities... - (CRConrad) - Sept. 22, 2021, 05:10:47 AM EDT

We've got to pull the "Reduce" lever harder - (drook) - (9) - Sept. 22, 2021, 09:39:11 AM EDT

Bag taxes. - (Another Scott) - (8) - Sept. 22, 2021, 10:48:01 AM EDT

I can hear the screams from the supply chain already - (drook) - Sept. 22, 2021, 11:08:19 AM EDT

Ecology & taxes - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Sept. 22, 2021, 11:38:12 AM EDT

I like how they do it at Costco - (drook) - (4) - Sept. 22, 2021, 11:45:31 AM EDT

TJs will do that with wine if you want. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 22, 2021, 01:11:30 PM EDT

When I shopped at TJs . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 22, 2021, 09:26:11 PM EDT

Happens here. - (static) - Sept. 22, 2021, 09:05:46 PM EDT

But then you need to subtract all the FoodSaver repackaging plastic... -NT - (scoenye) - Sept. 23, 2021, 07:26:45 PM EDT

What's in a name? (A piece of trash, by any other name, will still stink to high heaven...) - (CRConrad) - Sept. 23, 2021, 03:52:50 AM EDT

I got five to 10 van loads that I have to get rid of. - (crazy) - (4) - Sept. 22, 2021, 05:12:31 PM EDT

Craigslist free, someone will come for the compressor -NT - (drook) - (3) - Sept. 22, 2021, 06:48:20 PM EDT

I gave him a week - (crazy) - (2) - Sept. 22, 2021, 07:56:08 PM EDT

craigslist free to gleaners and metall recyclers - (boxley) - Sept. 22, 2021, 10:59:17 PM EDT

WTF, you got a free compressor, shouldn't you be over the moon? -NT - (CRConrad) - Sept. 23, 2021, 03:47:04 AM EDT

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