What's Normal? - Paper, Plastic or Reusable? (1 Viewer)

[Keerock]

Paper, plastic or reusable?

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When given the choice, do you usually use paper, plastic or reusable bags at the grocery store?

 

[Keerock]

Usually plastic. Sometimes paper if we need them for magazine recycling, etc. Never reusable.

 

[Don Quixote]

Reusable - plastic bag tax where I am.

 

[Snoopy]

Plastic as I can carry more in one trip to my apartment.

 

[ChiefD]

Reusable - as Mother Earth intended.

 

[MTskibum]

Reusable, although it is doing practically nothing to help.

Everything in the store still comes in plastic anyways.

Using reusable bags might drop my plastic consumption by 1%.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I no longer get a choice (no plastic or paper bags in NJ anymore) - but would pick paper (which I'd use to fill up with other paper recyclables).

 

[Skipdog77]

No more plastic allowed in NYS, so go with reusable (when I remember to bring some with me) or paper if I have to stop somewhere and don't have a reusable with me.

 

[Mitchie]

don't get a choice at any stores i go to, try to re-use the bags when i can

 

[brun]

Plastic. Got handles so easy to carry multiple bags. Reuse as trash bags at home.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I like the paper ones with the handles and square bottoms. They stand up in the car and can usually be reused.

 

[McBokonon]

Reusable. This one is always included: https://media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/a6a376106f0a4a008dcdd0724da1ac51lg.jpg

 

[jhib]

It's all technically reusable for me. If I get plastic, I reuse them for small trash cans and cleaning litter boxes - things I'd be using plastic bags for otherwise anyway. If I get paper, I reuse them for packing - something I use packing paper for otherwise anyway. So I don't really have a preference between those.

I'm not particularly good at having reusable bags on me when I need them (and I won't purchase another one at the register) so I'll just take what they give me or a lot of times here in NY I end up going without bags altogether and I just load things into my car from the cart.

 

[ChiefD]

I'm sure you all know this but the plastic bags are also recyclable. Our local grocery store takes them and all kinds of plastic packaging bags.

 

[Poke_4_Life]

Reusable, but I forget them often and then go with plastic.

 

[El Floppo]

always reusable.

at this point, why wouldn't I?

 

[jvdesigns2002]

When needed I ask for plastic, but
I haven’t needed to get bags from the store for several years now. I just bring my own reusable bags with me when I shop

 

[Nugget]

My town just passed an ordinance of some sort that is going to ban plastics bags in April 2024. I may be changing my vote next year.

 

[nirad3]

Plastic. Got handles so easy to carry multiple bags. Reuse as trash bags at home.

This.

I do keep one reusable in the back of my SUV but 90% of the time I forget to bring it in.

 

[-OZ-]

Do most of our grocery shopping at Aldi’s - so usually boxes

At Kroger it’s usually plastic, which I then use for picking up while walking the dog.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I no longer get a choice (no plastic or paper bags in NJ anymore) - but would pick paper (which I'd use to fill up with other paper recyclables).

Yeah, which is stupid because I have probably 300 "reusable" bags from various delivery services and other shopping needs. I throw them out every couple weeks.....

 

[FBG26]

Mix of plastic and paper. Boxy items go in paper since it holds the shape nicely and I use them for recycleables at home. Other stuff (meats, chips, other things that don't come in boxes) in plastic which I then re-use for diapers (Lord help me we have another coming).

ETA: or whatever the Shipt shopper decides to put them in since we get most of our groceries delivered these days.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I no longer get a choice (no plastic or paper bags in NJ anymore) - but would pick paper (which I'd use to fill up with other paper recyclables).

Yeah, which is stupid because I have probably 300 "reusable" bags from various delivery services and other shopping needs. I throw them out every couple weeks.....

I bought a nice three pack from Amazon that’s really solid and has held up well. I don’t have anything delivered in them, but I’ve seen those cheap ones and I’m sure they’re filling up landfills as you imply.

 

[skol asylum]

Mix of plastic and paper. Boxy items go in paper since it holds the shape nicely and I use them for recycleables at home. Other stuff (meats, chips, other things that don't come in boxes) in plastic which I then re-use for diapers (Lord help me we have another coming).

ETA: or whatever the Shipt shopper decides to put them in since we get most of our groceries delivered these days.

Plastic bags don't seem very absorbent as diapers. Probably gives the poor kid massive diaper rash too.

 

[FatMax]

I like the paper ones with the handles and square bottoms. They stand up in the car and can usually be reused.

I find their handles to be untrustworthy. It's the main reason I go plastic.

 

[Osaurus]

Been using reusable bags for 12+ years. I even use reusable produce bags (they’re mesh). I carry one with me when I travel. Bottles and such I just leave out of bags all together. I have a sort of boxy bag in the trunk from Sprouts (think hard sided bag) that I just throw that stuff into.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I live in NJ so I no longer have a choice. The state banned plastic AND paper bags from most stores last year. So reusable it is.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I live in NJ so I no longer have a choice. The state banned plastic AND paper bags from most stores last year. So reusable it is.

Whenever I drive around the turnpike in Elizabeth through the earth's space heater I always look in back seat to make sure I have my reusable bags to do my part.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I live in NJ so I no longer have a choice. The state banned plastic AND paper bags from most stores last year. So reusable it is.

So if I walked in there with my paper bags would they politely ask me to leave or would they drag me out forcibly?

 

[Keerock]

I live in NJ so I no longer have a choice. The state banned plastic AND paper bags from most stores last year. So reusable it is.

So if I walked in there with my paper bags would they politely ask me to leave or would they drag me out forcibly?

Arrestable offense

 

[dino259]

Reusable if I remember to bring them in from the car, otherwise plastic.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I live in NJ so I no longer have a choice. The state banned plastic AND paper bags from most stores last year. So reusable it is.

So if I walked in there with my paper bags would they politely ask me to leave or would they drag me out forcibly?

We have guards armed with tofu bullets for people like you.

 

[Ilov80s]

I go paper but my wife does 95% of our grocery shopping and she takes our reusable bags

 

[Mister CIA]

Mix of plastic and paper. Boxy items go in paper since it holds the shape nicely and I use them for recycleables at home. Other stuff (meats, chips, other things that don't come in boxes) in plastic which I then re-use for diapers (Lord help me we have another coming).

ETA: or whatever the Shipt shopper decides to put them in since we get most of our groceries delivered these days.

Put that baby carrier to good use.

Man picks up Groceries on a Scooter!

No one thought he could do it, but he figured out a way! Very creative. No need for a car or truck when you can use your clothes to carry all of your groceri...

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[krista4]

We haven't been allowed plastic here in years. Then the pandemic came and we weren't allowed to do reusable. Started using paper and never really went back to the reusable, but should.

 

[Gottabesweet]

NYS banned plastic bags and I get it but hate it. I always pay the $0.06 for paper bags because I always forget them from the house or car.

 

[Drunken knight]

wife, daughter, and myself have reusable in our cars.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Reusable for cold products.
Paper for other items. We usually go to Central Market which has nice paper bags with handles (then we throw in recycling bin).
Hate the plastic bags which the bagger only throws 2 or 3 items in each bag.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Even beyond the super easy, barely an inconvenience way to help the environment, I like that reusable bags can carry way more stuff. I have large reusable bags and can probably fit 12 plastic bags worth of stuff into just those 2 bags.

 

[Keerock]

Even beyond the super easy, barely an inconvenience way to help the environment, I like that reusable bags can carry way more stuff. I have large reusable bags and can probably fit 12 plastic bags worth of stuff into just those 2 bags.

 

[Fat Nick]

I live in NJ. I have reusable bags in my car, and much like my mask during a lot of COVID, I forget them 99% of the time when I walk into the store. Unlike my mask during COVID, I usually don't go back to the car for my bags when I remember. I just keep piling crap in my cart, and then pile it back in after I pay. I basically go bag-less at this point. Fortunately I only have to carry stuff about 10' from my garage to my pantry.

 

[Galileo]

I bring reusable bags with me to the store to do the weekly shopping. There are occasions when I stop for a couple things without my bags and I just get the plastic ones. The grocery store tells me every time I use the reusables they enter me in a drawing to win stuff. I haven't won sh!t yet, so I have no evidence there actually is a drawing.

 

[urbanhack]

Bring usable 95% of the time or will grab paper ones if need them for my own recycling at home. Plastic has been outlawed in Oregon and we have to pay $.05 per paper bag. Obviously encourages the use of your own reusable bags.