no to plastic bags...
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Topic: no to plastic bags...
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: no to plastic bags...
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 11:01pm
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Just saw an article on the news tonight about foodtown and plastic bags...they have decided that if you buy under three products then they wont give you a bag..YAY!
foodtown were one of the main culprits tho i think and even tho they sell enviro bags they still packed your purchases into too many plastic bags. i have heaps of enviro bags i use now and never get plastic bags at the dairy now either... I think we should all make an effort to say no to plastic bags...  it certainly makes for less mess around my house, let alone the landfill.------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 11:09pm
| If I have Erin in the stroller and I am at the supermarket / red shed, I will always say no to a plastic bag for small items, and just pop them in the parcel tray. Or if I have my hands free (ie: no Erin) I will still say no and just carry it, I agree - the less plastic bags the better. We do have cloth ones too for when we go to Pak N Save and do our big food shop. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 11:26pm
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Countdown have signs that ask people to request no bag for less than 3 items. I never buy less than three tho... -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 7:50am
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i noticed bunnings now charge you for bags, we dont get bags for small items anyway.
i cant see why they give bags for a small amount when with a pram i can use the parcel tray lol. it is good they are trying to stop the amount of bags used. countdown is shocking with the amount they use they will put 1 thing in a bag on its own, we end up with a huge drawer full of bags at end of grocery day, we should prob remember to take our bags in with us next time we go in we ahve more than enough. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 8:10am
I never buy less than 3 items if I walk into a supermarket 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 8:20am
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Over a million bags a year??
Choice can make a difference!! I have a Large handbag & use that when i only buy a few items. Will now be working on the grocery day plastic waste SAY NO TO PLASTIC ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 8:20am
| New world annoys me when we go there because of the amount of bags they pack stuff in. Some bags will only have one or two items and we end up with twice as many bags as what was actually needed. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 8:59am
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I don't have a problem with saying no to bags, just wish it would make the cost of groceries cheaper. I prefer Pak n Save and Write Price I can bring my own, or pay for them if i need them.
Woolies wont take 10c off my bill for not taking a bag. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:05am
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I think it is a good idea, but what I find is like yeaterday I went in and got 3 2.5 bottle of coke and a big packet of Huggies wipes and the chicky but the 3 bottles in one bag. I picked it up and it broke. I am finding they are over packing the very thin bags. I'm all for the reuse, recycle and (I can't remember the other one), I use the plastic bags to put our recycling out but if it breaks on me how can I reuse it? I have to bin it. I have just started buying the reusable bags (you can fit so much in them) but yesterday Countdown didn't have any (all sold out which in a way is kinda cool). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:13am
Reduce.... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:40am
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I am a shocker..... have the green reuseable ones which are fab!!! but forget to take them... ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:41am
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Thank you I knew it was another "re" word. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:55am
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We also re-use all of our plastic bags as our kitchen rubbish bags because we are too cheap to buy proper bin liners. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 11:03am
They did this in SA. You had to start buying bags and then they had some recycle bags. (I bought quite a few of those) But kept forgetting to take them with me.  I now use the plastic bags as bin liners as well and tell them not to put the bottles in bags as they just rip anyway. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 11:37am
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I get my groceries delievered and the amount of bags they use is SHOCKING!!!!
I've emailed them suggesting using the re-usable bags, and each time you have a delivery you could just return last weeks bags etc but didnt' get much of a response. We do re-use our bags to pick up doggi doos, but I still would like less. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 11:50am
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Which supermarket has the best reusable bags? I like them but not too sure where I should get them from. Are they pretty much the same? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 11:53am
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I've only got one reusable bag at the moment... we use it when we're only getting a few things from the supermarket here. When we do our monthly shop we usually go to Pac N Save, so we've got boxes to pack our groceries into in the car... we reuse old shopping bags for any left over stuff.
I've given a whole heap of plastic bags to the local kindy when they wanted some, and then more to the high school so we've got very few left here. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 12:06pm
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Leish I have the ones from Woollies and Countdown and they seem really good. But they have only been used twice so someone else probably have better opinions. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 12:23pm
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I got a re-usable bag from New World it folds up small, i also got a plastic box from Pak n Save, Shop in Go which fits all our weekly groceries, and its already packed by the time i get to the checkout. I use their free green one for fruit and vege and thats all we use.
I reuse plastic bags for rubbish bags, but usually end up with more bags than rubbish. |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 1:09pm
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I have the blue cooler bags from countdown and a few of the green bags but like some of the others I always forget to take them. our countdown pack heaps into there bags which usually results in them breaking of splitting.
We also use our bags as bin liners. If these places really want to commit to recycling why not go back to paper bags they have heaps of uses! ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 3:14pm
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i have some hemp bags that i got from a TNN co-op and they are huge...i also use the cotton bag we got with the johnsons product freebies for my meat and just throw it in the wash after i use it.
i always forget them when i do the grocery shop tho so just throw the groceries in the boot and use my bags or boxes when i unpack at the other end. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:21pm
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Bad post deleted.
Sorry about my, erm... bad taste. For the record it was supposed to be a joke/stir ------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
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