Beware bug-breeding
reusable grocery bags
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Editorial
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/7/2020 4:32:49 AM
City Councilman Mark Gjonaj is rightly pushing to set aside the city’s new 5-cent fee on paper bags at grocery stores and the like in the face of the coronavirus threat.
The Bronx Democrat, who heads the Small Business Committee, say he’s behind the fee in principle “to encourage New Yorkers to use the more environmentally friendly option of reusable bags in normal times, but the science is clear: Reusable bags are more susceptible to carrying the coronavirus.”
Right: Reusable bags in fact are a scientifically proven breeding grounds for germs — something no one needs during a pandemic. (And if you wash your bag obsessively, it’s using up more resources
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 4/7/2020 6:43:45 AM (No. 371175)
A super market we used to go to in another place had nice paper bags with handles on them. They were great. Then changed over to plastic to save the trees. Functional but, going for a drive in the country on a nice spring day and seeing them hanging in the trees along the road was disgusting. Then there were the re-usable bags that made you sick. Now after learning those two lessons we are now back to paper. Someone finally noticed that trees are a renewable resource. The ones we get today though do not have handles on them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Daisymay 4/7/2020 7:39:31 AM (No. 371223)
I loved my Cloth Bags, but if we have to quit using them, I would rather they go back to Paper bags than Plastic. I hate those Plastic bags. How about Paper Shopping bags with handles on them. They would be something that we could use for a lot of other purposes!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wcgreen 4/7/2020 7:56:58 AM (No. 371242)
I wash my home-made cotton yarn bags, Unlike either paper or plastic, I know how clean they are and who has handled them.
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They hate plastic bags, but constantly drink from disposable plastic water bottles.
They want to reduce CO2, which actually makes plants grow better.
Idiots who think they know best and know nothing at all!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 4/7/2020 8:23:38 AM (No. 371276)
Seems like everything the left forces upon us comes back to bite us in the a$$. They make us stop drilling for oil thereby becoming totally dependent upon foreign countries who hate us. They make us buy tiny cars that are a death trap in a crash, they crowd us into buildings with windows that don’t open and air that keeps getting recycled, they take away paper bags that come from trees that are a renewable resource, fill our landfills with toxic plastic bottles and bags that will never biodegrade. Maybe they should force some of their stupid ideas on the Chinese. They seem to be horribly lacking when it comes to health and environmental standards.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/7/2020 8:44:03 AM (No. 371296)
#1, you must be pretty young. For the first 30 plus years of my 67 year life, ALL grocery bags were made of paper and had no handles.
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I do not use cloth bags. Aldi has plastic and paper. At the other grocery stores I use the plastic bags, once for groceries and then for garbage bags.
Environmentalists are interested in protecting human life; thus, their idiotic proposals which always turn out to be fraudulent.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/7/2020 9:21:16 AM (No. 371346)
The resusable bags are a biological hazard. Residues from fresh beef, chicken, fish packaging and produce is absorbed by the material. Talk about creating a Petri dish for bacteria and virus to flourish, this would be it.
When we were kids in Illinois, paper bags were used everywhere. But, I never saw paper bags with handles. In the 1950s and 60s, the paper bag was quite strong and handles were not necessary. You held the bag by its bottom, anyway. At the A&P grocery store in town, the checker would know to create double-bags to hold the heavier items. Once at home, all of the grocery bags were saved for later use in the kitchen trash can. For a family of five kids, all of the bags would get used. There was no such thing as the neatly packaged and scented plastic kitchen trash bags with the cute little red draw string for closing the top of the bag once full.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 4/7/2020 9:31:07 AM (No. 371361)
This is what happens when you get English and Art majors setting the rules for the rest of us.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 4/7/2020 9:39:28 AM (No. 371373)
I use my own bags at Aldi. I don't want to touch the shopping cart. I fill my bags as I walk around the store and unload the stuff on the conveyor belt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/7/2020 9:42:40 AM (No. 371379)
We have the reusable washable nylon bags and I love them. I wash them at the same time I do other laundry because the nylon doesn't take that much space. Most of the bags that this article talks about are not machine washable, and if you tried, you would probably kill your machine. But the bags we have are available through Amazon, and they come in great designs too.
I still prefer the plastic bags though because they worked great for so many other things in my life. The left is never ever capable of thinking anything out to its full conclusion. So that is why we wound up with plastic bags in the first place. I am still waiting for them to wake up regarding the toxic mercury that is in the lightbulbs they are forcing on us.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 4/7/2020 9:44:32 AM (No. 371381)
I like my plastic bags but not Krogers plastic bags. I don't use paper bags when asked which I prefect at the stores. I've gotten those and usually the bottom breaks,the handle breaks, the bottom gets wet when you take them out of the car and put them on the ground. BOOM you're playing pickup. No thanks. And I've seen some pathetic looking cloth bags in stores. I would never use those. I like my plastic bgs, thank you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/7/2020 10:14:13 AM (No. 371415)
#10, I was at a supermarket the other day and there was a sign at the door specifically telling customers NOT to do that. I guess the thinking is that, if your bag is germy, you will transfer those germs to the belt when you put your purchases on it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 4/7/2020 10:25:15 AM (No. 371426)
Watching a customer put her dirty cloth bag on the counter next to the cashier is a disaster waiting to happen. Apparently I was one of a few that saw that right from the start. Environmentalists can't see the consequences beyond their agenda.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PageTurner 4/7/2020 11:22:53 AM (No. 371524)
A bad idea whose time has gone.
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I was a “bagger” in high school
For four years...every summer ‘64-‘67
National...DelFarm...Treasure Island
Worked some Saturdays and nights also during school...Paper bags paper bags!
“Could you double bag that for me”?
Yes ma’am
“Could you help me to my car?
Yes ma’am
Then came the lefty regulators into all of our lives creating their nanny state
I wish they would all lose their power!
Forever!
Stop frickin regulating me!
USAF ‘67-‘71
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
zoidberg 4/7/2020 3:10:59 PM (No. 371797)
In 2012, Portland, Oregon traced an outbreak of norovirus to reusable grocery bags.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/7/2020 3:50:38 PM (No. 371825)
If you're from the south, you know roaches come in on paper bags. They are stored in a warehouse and roaches lay eggs on them. I'll take plastic, thank you.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/7/2020 4:10:30 PM (No. 371840)
The paper bags used by markets today are treated to prevent bugs of any kind. That's one of the reasons housewives are warned about roasting a turkey in a paper grocery bag. That recipe, using peanut oil, turns out the most wonderful, moist, nicely browned fowl, but we can't do it that way any more.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
cat2 4/7/2020 4:59:03 PM (No. 371879)
-- very interesting that paper bags are being treated to prevent bugs. I'll let my relatives in a nice NY suburb know -- they unpack their groceries in the garage to prevent roaches getting into the house.
-- "single use" is a propaganda term. Plastic bags are . I have never, not once, thrown out a plastic bag before using it again for another purpose. And I never toss them to the winds so no one has ever seen mine in trees. And I always clip the handles before discarding, so no bird or animal will get stuck.
-- If your store does not have paper bags with handles, complain. Handles are very necessary.
-- when someone tells you that they wash their reusable bags, tell them that the next customer, who sees that stained bag on the bagging area, does not know if the bag is freshly washed or laden with bacteria. I
cringe at those filthy looking reusable bags.
-- the anti-plastic people need to start dealing with facts, not their own catechism. They have been preaching to Americans for years, even though not one town or city in the US dumps refuse in the ocean. That patch of plastic in the ocean that they keep pointing to -- 86-90% of the plastics in the ocean come from two rivers in China and India and it is time we start saying so. Being politically correct and alleging racism if the truth is spoken will never solve the problem.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cat2 4/7/2020 5:01:51 PM (No. 371884)
Correction: I wrote, "Plastic bags are multi-use". Multi use was apparently deleted because I put carets around it, in order to emphasize "multi-use". If we all refer to them as multi-use, it's a push back against the lying.
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I don't want my groceries in a cloth bag. I refuse to put the plastic guy out of business and I reuse them for kitty litter or trash. My father worked at a paper mill. We have plastic because of the whiners who didn't want trees cut down.
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