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Except for whole foods and central market. Always poorer people have to deal with this kind of unproven laws.
by hartator 8y ago
Except for whole foods and central market. Always poorer people have to deal with this kind of unproven laws.
- hn_throwaway_99 8y agoWhat? The ban was applied the same, everywhere. Stores were allowed to give out paper bags with handles on the idea that those are more reusable (and, IMO this is true, and in any case those bags are much easier to recycle, or heck compost, and they don't cause anywhere near the litter problem). If anything, who do you think has to deal more with the problem of plastic bag litter, folks in Tarrytown or those in East Austin? Poor people want a clean environment too you know.
- dominotw 8y agoPoor ppl have to carry groceries using public transport. Paper bags are not good
- kaybe 8y agoHere we use the big hiking backpacks for a big purchase. How would you even carry those amounts in plastic bags? You plan these trips, so you bring enough bags with you.
- bradlys 8y agoSo get reuseable bags? They're $1/each at Trader Joe's and last years and years. You won't need more than 4 over the course of 10 years. I've had them since I was poor.
- wickedsmile 8y agoPoors are called Poors because they do not have disposable income to buy non necessities like Reusable bag. If you are going to create new necessities then you must provide for poor first. People don't realize a bit of expense is what acts like a straw that broke the camels back.
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- komali2 8y agoI carried wet vegetables in paper bags on public transportation for years with no problem. Where are you hearing this?
- chillwaves 8y agoReusable bags are cheap and durable.
- vkou 8y agoPoor people in America drive. The rich live in places that are served by transit.
- scarcely 8y agoPoor people simply don't buy grocery, in fact many of them haven't "bought" anything except lottery tickets and an occasional pizza in decades.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoActually, a lot of poor people can't afford cars and have to use busses or similar, in areas where they take vastly longer than driving.
- hannasanarion 8y agoSuperthin plastic bags are better? I walk home with groceries all the time, I've had many plastic bags break on me, but never a paper or cloth one.
- epylar 8y agoWhen I was poor I carried groceries on public transport using a large rolling suitcase on wheels. Worked pretty well and would not have been a problem with paper bags.
- djrobstep 8y agoPerhaps instead of destroying the environment to help the poor, we should simply give the poor more money and stop them being poor at all.
- tomjakubowski 8y agopaper bags are far preferable for walking around with to thin plastic bags with weak "handles"
- brandonmenc 8y agoThe paper bags I get from whole foods with the glued on handles routinely break before I even get to my car. I don't think I've ever had a disposable plastic bag handle break on me, and I used to walk about a mile to get groceries for a number of years.