• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Instead, they must rely on reusable bags they bring themselves or purchase from the retailer. Critics have complained that too many extra bags have piled up in their homes.

    also love this line; so fucking stop buying new ones instead of bringing the ones you already have you dumbasses.

      • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        At some point I expect to see an article about how drinking dihydrogen monoxide makes you gay.

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      5 months ago

      That would require us Americans to stop being stupid and remember to bring the reusable bags.

    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      i have 3 collapsable small bags on my gearshift and a set of bags by Lotus that link together with velcro and fill a large US shopping cart. Each of the Lotus bags can fit a case of beer. There’s no reason to not have a bag.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Thats one reason the TX Legislature banned plastic bag bans in the state. Didn’t matter that even the small city of Laredo was saving a couple hundred thousand on cleaning up the waterways while the ban was enacted. The legislature couldn’t have cleaner streets, cleaner water plants, clearer storm drains, and government savings, because it was so oppressive for people to remember to bring a bag or pay 10¢ for a new one.

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    5 months ago

    Plastic bags! Lawn Darts! Televangelists! Smoking sections in restaurants! Muscle cars! Measles! Vote for me, and we’ll bring back all the greatest hits of the 1970s.

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    5 months ago

    I will say that the bag bans don’t seem to have been as effective as we might have hoped. Like, CVS briefly stopped having plastic bags, but then they got bags that are way thicker and just have some text on the bottom saying they’re reusable. Walmart seems to have done the same thing.

    The end result seems to be that bags just use more plastic.