I have a "Green" question for you.

[krlang]

How many of you bring your Grocery bags to the store to buy K-cups?

[Jesse C.]

Huh?

[spookythecat]

Not sure what it is you're asking but I can say I bring my own bags to the grocery store to save on using theirs. There's been talk of a bag tax here of like 5 cents or something like that. Most stores deduct 5 cents for each bag of your own you use.

[the330thbg]

In europe for about a decade you are charged per bag. It is now about .10 euro for each bag. It certainly does curb the problem as far as bag waste! I live in NYC.., my family goes shopping quite frequently for groceries and most of the time, we bring our own bags. 7 out of 10!

[bdk]

Without the grocery store bags you don't save any plastic because then you have to buy bags for trash anyhow.

[A2C]

How are bags green? And how does "green" really slow down a ficticious warming, by smoke and mirrors?

[JDK]

Without the grocery store bags you don't save any plastic because then you have to buy bags for trash anyhow.

Do you? We use a lot less bags for rubbish than we used to get at the supermarket, only partly because a lot of what was rubbish is now recycle material, which goes out unbagged. Generally reusable plasticised canvas or canvas bags are used here for shopping, and you have to request a plastic bag.

The 'cellophane era' only started in the 1950s, as we know it, don't forget. We've had a 50 year disposable packaging society, and it's on the way out for multiple reasons.

I'm betting that our grandchildren will be mining our parent's landfill.

The 'greatest generation' would be shocked at our cavalier affluent attitudes to one-use and throw-when-damaged attitudes, because what they had needed to last them, and packaging was mostly paper and card, tin and glass. Other than 'no garbage' I'd rather see those in my local creek, rather than the floods of plastic bottles, bags and expanded polystyrene. Maybe not the lead though.

Just some thoughts.

[lamp_abi]

Now I'm reminded to actually get my green bag. I've always told myself I will get one but always say I'll do it the next time around. I see its logic, that's why I'm willing to try it.