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I heard on the radio news this morning that some rich guys solution to the reusable bag problem was to increase the price of them so that people were less likely to forget them... that jolted me awake laughing.
The real answer is to follow the costco model of using the boxes the food comes shipped in, OR, have a reusable bag dropoff location in the grocery stores themselves for a "leave a bag, take a bag" system for anyone who wants to use it. Both of these are the simplest and cost effective for the consumer and doesn't result in big corporations profiting more from us.
I literally still have a cotton Earth Day bag from the early 1990s, when Earth Day and the reusable bag trend had its first few years of glory (anyone old enough to remember Our Common Future aka the Brundtland Report?). It still works, as do many of my 20+ year cotton shopping bags of ye olden days. I don't get how we have come to this place were Reduce and (truly) Reuse are too difficult. It isn't difficult.
Can the citizen not come up with a better word to use than ‘vagrants’? It’s giving old timey monocle wearing cigar chomping milburn pennybags vibes.
I personally don't find the bag thing that hard (I guess I don't whine enough about low ball things?)
I keep a supply of bags in my vehicle.
Also, if I don't happen to have a bag, it keeps my purchasing down to the important things.
I do notice less trash floating around because of this.
Re: reusable bags.
I heard on the radio news this morning that some rich guys solution to the reusable bag problem was to increase the price of them so that people were less likely to forget them... that jolted me awake laughing.
The real answer is to follow the costco model of using the boxes the food comes shipped in, OR, have a reusable bag dropoff location in the grocery stores themselves for a "leave a bag, take a bag" system for anyone who wants to use it. Both of these are the simplest and cost effective for the consumer and doesn't result in big corporations profiting more from us.
I literally still have a cotton Earth Day bag from the early 1990s, when Earth Day and the reusable bag trend had its first few years of glory (anyone old enough to remember Our Common Future aka the Brundtland Report?). It still works, as do many of my 20+ year cotton shopping bags of ye olden days. I don't get how we have come to this place were Reduce and (truly) Reuse are too difficult. It isn't difficult.