SA ban the plastic shopping Bag

[heater31]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24646230-5006301,00.html

FFS now we have to purchase bin liners and there for increasing our carbon Footprint further



The stupid idiots on North Tce have NFI

[The Ash Man]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24646230-5006301,00.html

FFS now we have to purchase bin liners and there for increasing our carbon Footprint further



The stupid idiots on North Tce have NFI

haha
everyone uses them as bin liners!!

[Psyber]

There are plenty of makers of biodegradable plastic bags, but shops are resisting them, possibly because they presently cost 0.1 cents instead of 0.01 cents, and perhaps because they would rather sell us $2 bags reusable bags that cost them 2 cents and are even more unfriendly to the environment to make, or charge us for the normal plastic bags.

If any government got behind it with a short term subsidy, once the use of biodegradable disposable bags ramped up they'd be as cheap as the old non-biodegradable ones were.
Alternatively, shops used to give away paper bags! Bring 'em back!

[MightyEagles]

I try and not take the plastic bags from shops.

[Psyber]

I try and not take the plastic bags from shops.

I've got about a dozen of the $2 "green" baggies. I just never remember to take them with me.
I've left some in the car commonly driven to the supermarket, but I tend to either remember they're there when checking out, or forget and take the other car..

[Apachebulldog]

Bag up the pollies and toss them out.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[A Mum]

While on the subject of 'green' bags

I have personally found that the best quality, lasting ones you can get are the Foodland/Drakes black ones.
Very sturdy and don't go out of shape very easily like some of them do.
So good value for money at the same price as the others.

From A Mum's point of view

[Hondo]

FFS now we have to purchase bin liners and there for increasing our carbon Footprint further

Does every single plastic bag you get from the shop get used as a liner?

The proper bin liners fit about 4 shopping bags full of rubbish, depending on how big they are

1 non-biodegradable bag is better than 4 x all a few million people adds up to a bit surely?

[JAS]

They've been trying to get rid of them here too. I think some shops have gone back to charging for plastic bags (they all did when I was a kid).

My local supermarket brought out a cotton Fairtrade carrier bag for 99pence. They're great I got two and use them all the time. They hold loads more than the plastic ones, they don't cut into your hands, they're washable and best of all, for those of us on foot, the sharp corners on packaging doesn't slice through them. I've even had someone stop me in the street and ask where he could get one from. That's the only pic I can find of it.



Never did use the old type as bin liners. I have a flip-top bin in the kitchen that uses a large bin liner rather than lots of small bags and I get of my butt and put all rubbish in there.

Regards
JAS

[zipzap]

Right, where do I get shares in Glad?

When the big supermarket chains get serious about reducing the amount of excess packaging they have on everything from fruit & veg to meat and snack foods, then I might believe this is not just a political 'feel-good' stunt.

For that matter too I try to boycott the growing tendency of butchers to plastic wrap their meat in trays - bloody ridiculous.

[brod]

Right, where do I get shares in Glad?

When the big supermarket chains get serious about reducing the amount of excess packaging they have on everything from fruit & veg to meat and snack foods, then I might believe this is not just a political 'feel-good' stunt.

For that matter too I try to boycott the growing tendency of butchers to plastic wrap their meat in trays - bloody ridiculous.

Might as well go to a supermarket defeats the purpose of going to the butcher for me. Just wrap it in some "butchers" paper, add it up by keeping tally on the next peice of paper (which is used for the next customer) and round it down to the next dollar for me!!! - like a REAL butcher

[zipzap]

Might as well go to a supermarket defeats the purpose of going to the butcher for me. Just wrap it in some "butchers" paper, add it up by keeping tally on the next peice of paper (which is used for the next customer) and round it down to the next dollar for me!!! - like a REAL butcher

I've just discovered the butchers at the Forbes Park N' Shop (sounds like something from the Simpsons doesn't it?) where they do just that. Some of the best meat around IMO.

[Tassie Blues]

the $2 "Green Bags" that arent so green but i am sure they are a good money maker for supermarkets

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/10/24/2069376.htm

[therisingblues]

Great news IMO. In time it will just be a part of life and little plastic bags will just be remembered as an extravagance of the past.
When I was a kid we had the paper bags, as Psyber mentioned. I remember the ass falling out of them from time to time as my little arms had trouble carrying the things home. I had to stop a few times, adjust my grip, go a few more steps, stop etc.... all the extra handling used to crease them up and sometimes they'd get so scrunched up that the bottoms would sort of burst under the pressure of my little kid arms squeezing the crap out of them.
And a damn good character building exercise it was too, now I come to think of it. I reckon the kids of today should be made to go through similar trials on the passage to adulthood.

[The Ash Man]

Right, where do I get shares in Glad?

When the big supermarket chains get serious about reducing the amount of excess packaging they have on everything from fruit & veg to meat and snack foods, then I might believe this is not just a political 'feel-good' stunt.

For that matter too I try to boycott the growing tendency of butchers to plastic wrap their meat in trays - bloody ridiculous.

Might as well go to a supermarket defeats the purpose of going to the butcher for me. Just wrap it in some "butchers" paper, add it up by keeping tally on the next peice of paper (which is used for the next customer) and round it down to the next dollar for me!!! - like a REAL butcher

[GWW]

So apparently this is the first week of the ban. Are supermarkets providing any types of bags at all, or do customers need to bring their own??

[Footy Chick]

You'll find the actual ban itself doesn't come into effect until May.

I must admit It'll take some getting used to, as I have a shocking memory and always forget my bags so end up with plastic ones anyway...

Guess I'll just learn the hard way

[The Ash Man]

You'll find the actual ban itself doesn't come into effect until May.

I must admit It'll take some getting used to, as I have a shocking memory and always forget my bags so end up with plastic ones anyway...

Guess I'll just learn the hard way

Or you leave them at pre-xmas piss-ups...

[Footy Chick]

Oh crap, I forgot about that... and that's my favourite bag too!

I'll swap it for a copy of the Anchorman

[The Ash Man]

Oh crap, I forgot about that... and that's my favourite bag too!

I'll swap it for a copy of the Anchorman

Well I think I could get more than that for it....