Can we go back to plastic bags too? I have a few grocery stores near me that insist on you bringing your own or shelling out 5 cents for a crappy paper one.
I think I used to live there. The blue county govt required stores to charge $0.05 for a plastic bag but paper bags were free. They wanted the plebs to use those reusable bags that no one washes and are filthy. The plebs just used the paper bags until the county made stores charge for them too.
We moved to a purple county in a red state. Where I live now the store double bags everything in plastic!
1960s ----- we saved our big heavy paper bags and reused them for trash cans and other things (book covers). The plastic bags don't stand up very well.
Used heavy paper grocery bags have 101 uses that got lost in history.
Can we go back to plastic bags too? I have a few grocery stores near me that insist on you bringing your own or shelling out 5 cents for a crappy paper one.
I think I used to live there. The blue county govt required stores to charge $0.05 for a plastic bag but paper bags were free. They wanted the plebs to use those reusable bags that no one washes and are filthy. The plebs just used the paper bags until the county made stores charge for them too.
We moved to a purple county in a red state. Where I live now the store double bags everything in plastic!
u/#topkek
I remember growing up when it was all “save the rainforest” and use plastic. I bet we will cycle back in a year or so.
Bags ---- were originally paper
Yes, but the plastic ones are much better and have been replaced by paper where I live in some stores.
1960s ----- we saved our big heavy paper bags and reused them for trash cans and other things (book covers). The plastic bags don't stand up very well.
Used heavy paper grocery bags have 101 uses that got lost in history.
Used plastic bags are mostly just extra trash.