you ended up with more plastic bags than you could use because you didn’t bring your own bags to the store. it doesn’t matter what type of bag it is, it’s that you didn’t bring it yourself.
yes, the ability to do this leads to more people doing it. but I still think they should have just charged for the plastic bags and let people make the choice to buy more. some people will just always buy them, some people won’t. some people like me would have brought their own bags and then bought plastic ones as necessary (reusing them at home). tbh this wouldn’t be an issue at all for me if they sold similar bags at the store, but everything is much more heavyweight and expensive. I just want a cheap shitty bag to bag up my dog shit and use as a garbage bag, I don’t need something 10 times thicker
in my other comment I do mention that the plastic bag litter is pretty shitty, agreed on that
I didn’t bring my old plastic bags to the store because they tended to wear out quickly and not hold up to repeated usage with weight. So they were better suited to being garbage bags in small bins around the home than they were to regular reuse for groceries, in my experience.
As for dog poo, I thought there were special bags for those that are compostable or something? I don’t have a dog, so I’m not sure, but I don’t think I ever regularly saw people using grocery store bags for that.
there are municipally compostable dog poop bags, but they’re the ‘single serving’ size, at least that is all that I’ve seen
I need to use a leak proof bag to place my dog poop into the green bin at home for the city to collect it, and I don’t pick up my dog’s poop from the yard individually, I do batches every few days, which are too large to fit into the single use bags (also would require many of them!). regular grocery store bags were perfect for this
you ended up with more plastic bags than you could use because you didn’t bring your own bags to the store. it doesn’t matter what type of bag it is, it’s that you didn’t bring it yourself.
yes, the ability to do this leads to more people doing it. but I still think they should have just charged for the plastic bags and let people make the choice to buy more. some people will just always buy them, some people won’t. some people like me would have brought their own bags and then bought plastic ones as necessary (reusing them at home). tbh this wouldn’t be an issue at all for me if they sold similar bags at the store, but everything is much more heavyweight and expensive. I just want a cheap shitty bag to bag up my dog shit and use as a garbage bag, I don’t need something 10 times thicker
in my other comment I do mention that the plastic bag litter is pretty shitty, agreed on that
I didn’t bring my old plastic bags to the store because they tended to wear out quickly and not hold up to repeated usage with weight. So they were better suited to being garbage bags in small bins around the home than they were to regular reuse for groceries, in my experience.
As for dog poo, I thought there were special bags for those that are compostable or something? I don’t have a dog, so I’m not sure, but I don’t think I ever regularly saw people using grocery store bags for that.
there are municipally compostable dog poop bags, but they’re the ‘single serving’ size, at least that is all that I’ve seen
I need to use a leak proof bag to place my dog poop into the green bin at home for the city to collect it, and I don’t pick up my dog’s poop from the yard individually, I do batches every few days, which are too large to fit into the single use bags (also would require many of them!). regular grocery store bags were perfect for this