Well, those young ladies certainly were on the receiving end of a "teachable moment", i.e. don't trust hippie idiots.
I re-use my plastic bags once. They're good for bringing munchies to work or picking up dog turds. If I had a bunch of those reusable bags, I'd feel the need to wash them, which is one big reason why I don't fuck around with the whole idea.
We've had this discussion before. Some people were aghast at the idea of not washing grocery bags, and the vast majority of people who do use them don't wash them, and never even considered it. All of this...happened...blah blah blah. Obama.
Please allow this to play out. We may have just found a way to trick the greenies into committing collective inadvertent suicide.
Yeah you're really only supposed to carry well packaged items in the reusable bags, and wash the fucking bags. No surprise that soccer moms are idiots.
From now on I will reuse nothing. I will purchase every item used in my kitchen new, use it once, and then discard it.
You'll spend a lot on refrigerators and ovens, but it's worth it to know the milk you spilled in the fridge or the cheese that fell to the bottom of the oven won't come back to haunt you. It's the same reason I don't own a washing machine or dryer. I burn my clothes after wearing them once and buy new ones constantly.
I've always washed my reusable grocery bags. Everyone thought I was nuts, calling it one of my OCD quirks. It always just seemed like common sense to me.... I hope they all come down with gastroenteritis for mocking my sanitary ways.
Pfft, I use the plastic bags, reuse them if they've not had meats in them for an array of things including trash bags in my small trash cans. Used paper for years until I realized they were roach taxis. More often than not if I just have a handfull of things I don't use a bag, I tell them to keep them. That always lets me leer with my "you stupid fuck" look at those asshole recipt checkers too if they stop me. Bottom line is most are recycled and I do use them again if they're not scrunged.
Man, I miss the '70s. You got your Big Mac in a fucking Styrofoam "clamshell". And when you were done eating it, you threw that shit out the window as you barreled down the freeway. Then that damned Indian cried and we all had to stop littering.
One reusable bag, out of millions, caused a health problem. This hardly negates their economic or environmental value.
You mean that gorram Wahp! *sigh* My mom remembers when the Wahpetin, ND Huskies were the Wahps. Then some stupid Wahps heard and got offended. As if second generation Norwegians had ever met a real Wahp, or even knew it was racist.
My grocery store now always packs meat in a plastic bag as a matter of course, and asks if you want the meat and/or diary products in plastic or reusable. I leave the milks separate and the meat goes in a plastic bag--all else goes in reusable, and I never wash my bags.
