to your self righteous writer who wrote that shopping with those cloth bags are sooo cool . you’re so lame like all your articles it’s pathetic. so if you think plastic bagger are pariah, i thought smoking dope makes you the bigger pariah. i guess you don’t drive or take the bus either as they f’k up the environment more than plastic bags.
come off it, you do things only to look cool? that’s lame.
—plastic bag pariah
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.
I just assume the “your” here is The Coast, but I have no idea what he/she is talking about, really.
It’s true that Lezlie did a bit about how the plastic industry is lame for its “plastic bags are full of disease” thing, but before that she did a piece about how the “no plastic bags!” phenom is really missing the point, environmentally.
So, I dunno. Still, good to get the hate up on The Coast. Gives me a reason to come into work.
I love bitches like this. It’s better than doing Mensa puzzles! Works out my brain trying to make sense of random blatherings like this.
Whoa thats all over the place!
This makes me touch your hands for stupid reasons…
lol@ideassleepfuriously !
love that letter!
They are cool. I can get those fuckers over my shoulders for the heavy stuff. No more scarlet lines of death in my palms and numb fingers walking home.
Agreed… Though I still get plastic bags occasionally for other uses, I prefer the re-usable ones as they are sturdier and much easier on my hands
Same Anton. I skip using the cloth ones at Sobeys a couple times a week to get bags for the bathroom garbage and putting my newspapers in for recycling. Perfect size and free!
HMV’s bags are now biodegradable, but still look and feel like plastic, so they’re great for all the little garbage cans. But for sure the cloth ones are best for everything else.
Toronto just implemented a city-wide 5 cent fee for plastic bags at ALL stores. I suspect other municipalities will soon follow suit.
The stores get to pocket the fee though, so I’m not sure how the city is supposed to benefit. They also banned biodegradable bags like PAS mentioned…which is dumb. They say it’s because those bags can’t be recycled, but the recyclable ones people buy are only going to end up in the landfill because people use them as garbage bags. Not a well-thought out policy on the surface. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
If Toronto’s doing it, then you know it’s wrong and stupid.
Long live the versitile plastic bag.
I was in Quebec recently and got this awesome tote at the liquor store for carrying around bottles of wine/beer. I think it was 75 cents. Whats the problem again?
I think the point Lezlie was trying to make in her article was (or at least what I got out of it) is that producing a manuel for safe use of reusable bags is STUPID and it’s only common sense to make sure your bags are clean before you put food in them. Like she said: throw them in the washer/dryer every once and a while.
Pariah, Mariah. Meh.
Anton & Swamp Donkey, I agree with you both & practice the same idea. IT’s still cheaper than buying those small white namebrand pail liners.
But I usually do it because
A-I forget my bag(s) at home
B- I forgot the damn bags in the truck & don’t realise it until I’m at the register. (this is my number one problem…why isn’t there a sign that says ” did you bring your reusable bag” at the door to help us get retrained ?)
But anyway it works out & I’ve got bags for the bathroom trash & the little one in the living room as well.