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I live in New Jersey, and I suspect the law of unintended consequences is going to come in hard on this one. The stores all sell cheap reusable bags so that cus

I live in New Jersey, and I suspect the law of unintended consequences is going to come in hard on this one. The stores all sell cheap reusable bags so that customers don't get caught in line with nothing to carry their goods in. I've bought two so far. If the bag is in the car you obviously have to remember to take it into the store with you. If you carry the bag into your house with your groceries then you have to remember to put it back in the car. If you fail to do either of those things you'll probably buy another $.30 reusable bag at checkout, which you'll then carry into the house with your goods. I suspect people will accumulate a lot of bags, and I can't help wondering why some recycling chain involving paper bags would not have been a better solution. I'm no expert and presumably there's a reason.

orev 4y ago
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In that order. Each one of those has a higher cost than the one before it. Change takes getting used to. Yeah, you’ll forget your bags for a while, but eventually it will become a normal thing.
xtracto 4y ago
That's happened to me... Right now I've got around 12 reusable fabric bags that I've had to buy at some point when I needed to buy groceries but didn't have a bag handy. I am now thinking what to do with some of them (maybe some type of LED lamp shade)
neverminder 4y ago
It can be worse. I live in central London and I don't even have a car. Busy lifestyle means most of the time I swing by groceries on my way back from somewhere. I don't have space in my pockets to carry bags all the time, so I end up buying them all the time. This anti-bag politics is complete bullshit.