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It's a good idea:

http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/investing/insight/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6941661

I'd also ban all single serving beverage containers.

http://green.sympatico.msn.ca/GoBlue/GoBlueArticle.aspx?cp-documentid=474375

I don't think half the people who make and change the rules at the drop of a hat know their arses from a hole in the ground. I have about 100 plastic bags here that I'm just waiting for somebody to say I can't use. What the hell do I do with them if I can't use them......Just throw them away? I figure my plastic bag supply will last me about 5 years if I take good care of them and I can't wait to tell somebody to go p155 up a gum tree.

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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Maybe I can cause trouble and sell them as collector's items in a few years.

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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

I don't know what to say to all of this.  It's certainly scaring people........people who drink bottled water.  The thing I'll remember most to pass on from reading that article is that city water is tested several times a day but the plants that bottle water only have to test once a week.

Re the plastic bags.  I began holding on to them too.  They're great for messy jobs.

I imagine it's just a matter of time now for "them" "someone" to come out with  environmentally safe plastic.....and make millions off of it.....and then after they've made their money, some research council will deem it unsafe for some particular reason.

Willie, I doubt any ban would affect the bags you have at home, or your right to use them.  It would more so apply to the bags in store.  Eventually, if the stores can't provide plastic shopping bags, people's home supplies of bags will deplete.  And to answer your question about what to do with your bags, you can recycle them!  Sobeys has bins to put them in.

 

Just to be a pain, I'll disagree. All those places are small towns which I'm willing to bet have no wastemanagement programs like greater Moncton has.Here the waste is sorted at the landfill allowing for the recycleing of various items.I'm assuming that plastic bags would fall into that catagory.

If they truely are being recycled in some form, I see no problem.

For the record, I do support reducing and recycleing..

 

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Lord Denning wrote:

Willie, I doubt any ban would affect the bags you have at home, or your right to use them.  It would more so apply to the bags in store.  Eventually, if the stores can't provide plastic shopping bags, people's home supplies of bags will deplete.  And to answer your question about what to do with your bags, you can recycle them!  Sobeys has bins to put them in.

Why don't I just use them til there's nothing left of them then recycle them? If I'm at the fleamarket and somebody wants a plastic bag what do I do? I will be no longer allowed to give them out to my customers. Will I have to make up some kind of a contract for the customer to sign promising to recycle the bag when he's done with it? My plastic bags were already made so the damage is done. Pure and simple, I'm going to get the most use I can out of them. If it means the person selling the new bags has to wait a couple of years to make his couple of dollars somebody is trying to force me to spend then he will just have to wait.

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Remember yesterday, respect tomorrow, live for today.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Willie I must have over 500 of them at home. We used to use them for garbage but since they introduced the blue and green bags, we only use very few of them for the bathroom and bedrooms. I'm hoping one day I wll be able to use most of them because I do agree with re-using then recycling if need be but now I get more each week than we use. I never think of bringing some to sobeys (and each time I go and see that bin for them, I curse) One day I'll remeber lol

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Just waiting till it's all over.

In my technicolor dreamcoat utopian future we all have our own supply of those sobeys 99 cent for life type bags. You would take them with you wherever you shop. Going to a flea market, farmers market, yard sale-ing throw yours in the trunk and take a couple to the vendor tables with you. Hmmm that increases probability for shop lifting though. Maybe my future isn't so utopian or technicolored after all. But those reusable sobeys bags are darned convinient. Right now when we get regular plastic bags they are used in the garbage cans in the bathroom and by the computers.

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You pull 'em down and there's really nothing there
I wish you would just be real with me

Why not ban flyers and junk mail? I usually fill a Sobey's bag and a half with that stuff every week. I have to throw all that waste out. I can't even burn it in the patio fireplace without somebody bitchen about it.

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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

I do a lot of shopping by bike and I can get a lot in my backpack without the need for bags for everything. I also dump the used bags in the containers at Superstore, Sobeys and Co-op when I go shopping, so I'm often returning more than I'm collecting

It's the damn bottles I have a problem with. I take back about 20-30 a week, but what with the weather over the winter, they all built up. The kids tell me we have about $15 worth down in the basement. 300.

I'm waiting for the next collection by someone fundraising.

BristolUK wrote:

I do a lot of shopping by bike and I can get a lot in my backpack without the need for bags for everything. I also dump the used bags in the containers at Superstore, Sobeys and Co-op when I go shopping, so I'm often returning more than I'm collecting

It's the damn bottles I have a problem with. I take back about 20-30 a week, but what with the weather over the winter, they all built up. The kids tell me we have about $15 worth down in the basement. 300.

I'm waiting for the next collection by someone fundraising.

We always get such a hassle from the bottle depot near us that we've just stopped bothering with the recycling of them. The bottles and cans get rinsed and go in the blue bag. Just isn't worht all the glares and  "why didn't you counts" etcetera.

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You walk around like you're oh so debonair
You pull 'em down and there's really nothing there
I wish you would just be real with me

zymry wrote:

We always get such a hassle from the bottle ..... "why didn't you counts" etcetera.

In Quebec, before we moved here, there was a FULL refund of the deposit - not the punitive half that one gets here. Also they go into a machine that counts them - although that does mean you have to feed the machine one at a time instead of dumping a bagfull.

Supermarkets take them too, so you don't have to make a special trip.

I imagine there are all sorts of pros and cons involved in both systems.

I never had any problems at the bottle exchange centers. I get asked how many and I just tell them I started counted when I started filling the bag and was too drunk to remember when it got full. They are a pretty good bunch of people at the place on High Street.

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Remember yesterday, respect tomorrow, live for today.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.