Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

trunkswd said:

SvennoJ said:

Yep it's been a complete 180. Plastic bags were set to be banned entirely early this year while for years stores have already encouraged people to bring their own re-usable bags and cups (for coffee) and charging for plastic bags. (The store I go to even gives a couple cents discount per bag you brought yourself)

We were almost through our 10+ year stash of old plastic bags (using them as garbage bags). Currently that cupboard is bulging out again from all the plastic bags that keep coming in with groceries. We'll be set for another couple decades for waste container bags :/

Interesting that I've been able to bring my reusable when I go food shopping. I just have to pack things up myself. I live just outside of NYC. And from what I've seen the local stores are using paper bags over plastic bags here. 

Only the LCBO (government liquor stores) use paper bags and some hardware stores. For some reason grocery stores only use plastic here. They do sell durable cloth bags to use, but no one is going to buy a new set of cloth bags every time they go shopping.

Hopefully they reverse that knee jerk policy (putting everything in plastic bags) after that CDC revision.