How Do We Get Bagged
?
Shopping at retail stores today is getting more and more complex.
Remember when everything you bought got put into a paper bag.
Now it looks like a new trend for trekking our groceries and other retail items home is about to greet us.
The State of California has approved legislation where plastic bags will be phased out of large grocery stores starting next year and convenience stores and pharmacies will phase out these bags in 2016.
Basically stating this legislation is meant to encourage consumers to bring their own bags while reducing litter and grocers will also be able to charge customers a 10-cent fee for a paper bag.
This California legislation noted that people on food stamps are exempt but that people who are "at the margin" of poverty must pay 10 cents for a paper bag.....now go figure this one out.
The argument here is that banning plastic bags is environmentally safer while others say this is a fallacy because littler from plastic bags is less than one percent of what goes into landfills.
Then there is also the topic of paper bags which some say is more harmful to the environment because they use more energy and require cutting down trees.
Additional studies warn that reusable grocery bags could also spread germs if they are used to handle meat and are not cleaned properly between uses.
Ten cities in Texas have passed ordinances restricting the use of plastic bags.
Retail Associations have all spoken out against the plastic bag ordinance's and restrictions but supporters of the ordinances say plastic bags harm the environment and there is a need to ban he very thing that hangs on fence lines and trees and that's killing our wildlife and fish and is clogging up sewer systems.
Rumors also circulating is that Wal-Mart is considering doing away with plastic and having customers being in their own bags.
Whatever happens I think my wife is far ahead of the trend as she has between five to 10 cloth bags with various logo's on them that she carts into the store (some stores give a discount for your own bags) .......or consumers might consider getting their hands some burlap bags which certainly will create interesting remarks from store clerks.
Shopping at retail stores today is getting more and more complex.
Remember when everything you bought got put into a paper bag.
Now it looks like a new trend for trekking our groceries and other retail items home is about to greet us.
The State of California has approved legislation where plastic bags will be phased out of large grocery stores starting next year and convenience stores and pharmacies will phase out these bags in 2016.
Basically stating this legislation is meant to encourage consumers to bring their own bags while reducing litter and grocers will also be able to charge customers a 10-cent fee for a paper bag.
This California legislation noted that people on food stamps are exempt but that people who are "at the margin" of poverty must pay 10 cents for a paper bag.....now go figure this one out.
The argument here is that banning plastic bags is environmentally safer while others say this is a fallacy because littler from plastic bags is less than one percent of what goes into landfills.
Then there is also the topic of paper bags which some say is more harmful to the environment because they use more energy and require cutting down trees.
Additional studies warn that reusable grocery bags could also spread germs if they are used to handle meat and are not cleaned properly between uses.
Ten cities in Texas have passed ordinances restricting the use of plastic bags.
Retail Associations have all spoken out against the plastic bag ordinance's and restrictions but supporters of the ordinances say plastic bags harm the environment and there is a need to ban he very thing that hangs on fence lines and trees and that's killing our wildlife and fish and is clogging up sewer systems.
Rumors also circulating is that Wal-Mart is considering doing away with plastic and having customers being in their own bags.
Whatever happens I think my wife is far ahead of the trend as she has between five to 10 cloth bags with various logo's on them that she carts into the store (some stores give a discount for your own bags) .......or consumers might consider getting their hands some burlap bags which certainly will create interesting remarks from store clerks.
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