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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.
     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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