Member of the Month

hi_vis360
November, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Paper or plastic

profile picture
FrysNation
Posts: 491 - Karma: 471
I bag groceries and it pisses me off when people ask for all paper because some shit isnt made to go in paper.
Aug 13 2012 5:40PM
0 0
profile picture
howlongcanausern
Posts: 4982 - Karma: 1,737
either way you're destroying the environment. Americans are so wasteful.
Aug 13 2012 5:42PM
0 0
profile picture
Randy_Quench
Posts: 5447 - Karma: 4,343
x market basket bagger here. Fuck the wasteful dbags who think paper in plastic is necessary.
Aug 13 2012 5:44PM
0 0
profile picture
FrysNation
Posts: 491 - Karma: 471
its not like the bags matter when you consider how much plastic goes into packaging the food
Aug 13 2012 5:45PM
0 0
profile picture
KillaSteeze
Posts: 3329 - Karma: 351
hide the paper bags and say you out of it at the moment
Aug 13 2012 5:52PM
0 0
profile picture
Flacko
Posts: 1495 - Karma: 788
you use the paper bags as trash bags for your recycle bin so you can throw the whole thing in the recycle bin, not an amazing reason but good enough, and fuck those flimsy paper handles they alwyase break, just don't put them on. i guess we counter it by having the recycling truck come every week and the trash every other week... only in Portland. But yes fruits and small shit was meant to go in plastic.


Aug 13 2012 6:07PM
0 0
profile picture
FBGM
Posts: 8184 - Karma: 2,677
Where I live, we have a county bag tax. 5 cents per bag. I think it's pretty cool.
Aug 13 2012 6:14PM
0 0
profile picture
ski-swagga
Posts: 5276 - Karma: 219
im a plastic kind of guy. easier to carry.
Aug 13 2012 6:19PM
0 0
profile picture
SwagasaurusRex
Posts: 635 - Karma: 333
OMG HELLO MY FELLOW BAGGER! but jesus this is so true. if you have damn boxes, dont ask for plastic, if you have a shit ton of fruit, dont ask for paper. simple as that. Also, most companies used recycled plastic to make plastic bags because the type of plastic isnt very important, so its not very bad for the environment.
Aug 13 2012 6:21PM
0 0
profile picture
timmi
Posts: 12874 - Karma: 3,460
Ontario put a mandatory 10 cent charge on bags a few years ago. I thought it was foolish at first, but it has actually really increased the number of people using reusable bags. Great idea.
Aug 13 2012 6:23PM
0 0
profile picture
Smuckers
Posts: 581 - Karma: 21
Paper, mainly because i fucking hate condoms and they are plastic. cuz this one time i was driving around a walmart parking lot looking for a hooker but since none showed up i just picked up my cousin. we drove to the abandoned marine base in my town and started fucking like rabbits. so i wanna go anal and we have no lube so at walmart i just bought pushpops and rubbed them on my dick. We are fucking so hard and then this gay fucking cop comes up and makes me put on a condom and steals all my fucking pushpops
Aug 13 2012 6:24PM
0 0
profile picture
EvanWalz
Posts: 273 - Karma: 347
paper=pussies
Aug 13 2012 6:24PM
0 0
profile picture
zahava
Posts: 7791 - Karma: 12,039
Just buy some cloth reusable bags, they cost like $2 each and last forever.
Aug 13 2012 6:26PM
0 0
profile picture
corona
Posts: 12803 - Karma: 32,817
wrong. out of our every day refuse, plastic bags are probably the worst.
Aug 13 2012 6:32PM
0 0
profile picture
ski-swagga
Posts: 5276 - Karma: 219
Click for larger image
Aug 13 2012 6:38PM
0 0
profile picture
grown-ninja
Posts: 3031 - Karma: 175
yea a tax on what bags you can use, thats realll cool, land of the free......
Aug 13 2012 6:48PM
0 0
profile picture
Anathema
Posts: 21048 - Karma: 5,061
i thought you were going to ask if we prefer to pay for things with cash or credit/debit


i wish i carried cash around, but i never do. it'd be way easier than paying those shitty $2.50 transaction fees at bars and shit. i use credit pretty much all the time unless its something super cheap at a corner store or whatever, in which case debit.
Aug 13 2012 6:51PM
0 0
profile picture
Randy_Quench
Posts: 5447 - Karma: 4,343
dude.. get real.

that simple tax is helping by making shoppers avoid using a surplus of bags. if you honestly think your freedom is threatened by that, kindly go pound sand.
Aug 13 2012 7:00PM
0 0
profile picture
GANDALF
Posts: 6304 - Karma: 6,595
Where I live in Bellingham WA, a law passed last summer where plastic bags have been completely removed from all stores. Paper bags are available, but it costs 5 cents for every paper bag. The law encourages people to bring their own reusable bags.
It doesnt bother me. I usually end up having all these plastic bags everywhere that just get thrown away. You cant really "recycle" them either. I use a paper bag as a recycle bin underneath the kitchen sink. The law went into effect a couple weeks ago. Tote bags ftw.
Aug 13 2012 7:04PM
0 0
profile picture
Heart
Posts: 6156 - Karma: 3,462
Click for larger image
Aug 13 2012 7:07PM
0 0
profile picture
CrotchKiller
Posts: 9037 - Karma: 6,943
bring my own
Aug 13 2012 7:07PM
0 0
profile picture
partywithsloots
Posts: 62 - Karma: 14
plastic, its a pain in the ass putting the paper bag in it
Aug 13 2012 7:17PM
0 0
profile picture
roddy116
Posts: 10634 - Karma: 7,490
idk we use paper but we use them for recycling bags.
Aug 13 2012 7:17PM
0 0
profile picture
sir_drums_a_lot
Posts: 335 - Karma: 14
Here around Seattle we have to pay 5 cents per plastic bag
Aug 13 2012 7:35PM
0 0
profile picture
cubber
Posts: 1933 - Karma: 638
I rarely use bags cause then you just have more shit to throw away, plus, what is it with walmart cashiers putting each item in its own bag? Fuck you, cashier, my mountain dew needs no satchel, nor my velveeta microwave shells & cheese.
Aug 13 2012 7:48PM
0 0
profile picture
chicken
Posts: 6843 - Karma: 2,121
nylon?
Aug 13 2012 7:57PM
0 0
profile picture
Dlud
Posts: 938 - Karma: 544
Portland has a ban on plastic bags, so paper, or reusable.
Aug 13 2012 8:16PM
0 0
profile picture
Mr.Sloth
Posts: 5091 - Karma: 13,469

I bring my own. Mostly because their huge, so I only have to take one trip into the house when I'm bringing them in.

When It comes to condoms I normally go for the always classy brown lunch bag/ rubber band combo

Aug 13 2012 8:40PM
0 0
profile picture
grown-ninja
Posts: 3031 - Karma: 175

dude there is no excuse for a new/more taxes, you really think the govt implemented this tax to help the environment-get real, its a new revenue stream to capatalize on the green movement, im all for helping the earth in this case by using reasuable bags which i usually do (it is nice to have plastice to clean up dog poop when i walk my dog) but a new tax is no way to do it.

Aug 14 2012 10:10AM
0 0
profile picture
SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Reusable bags whenever feasible, and CERTAINLY if I am going to be buying a large quantity of food. Load those fuckers to the top, as heavy as possible. Gallons of milk, watermelons? No problem, toss them in the bottom. I loathe plastic bags for large amounts of groceries.
Aug 14 2012 10:19AM
0 0
profile picture
snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,806
Yup, same on all accounts except for milk. Who bags their milk? ;)
Aug 14 2012 10:37AM
0 0
profile picture
SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
A man who wants the most efficient way to carry all their $150s worth of grocerys into the house in one single trip.

That is who bags their milk.

:P
Aug 14 2012 10:40AM
0 0
profile picture
1337
Posts: 31059 - Karma: 29,314
Reusable ftw!
Aug 14 2012 11:13AM
0 0
profile picture
snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,806
I guess it depends on how you're buying your milk, whether carton or jug. A carton I'd def put in a bag since its square and less weight. But a jug? Nah haha.
Aug 14 2012 11:14AM
0 0
profile picture
sleazy
Posts: 374 - Karma: 281
I'm pretty sure its 5 cents for paper and plastic is banned.
Aug 14 2012 11:19AM
0 0
profile picture
SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Gallon jug, fits the width of a reusable bag perfectly and creates a brilliant base for layering other items on. Great to top the bag with produce as it keeps things cool.

I find it far more convenient than keeping the milk out separate.
Aug 14 2012 11:35AM
0 0
profile picture
dreadyboy
Posts: 2306 - Karma: 34
The blood soaks through paper and makes it fall apart, contractor garbage bags are where it's at
Aug 14 2012 12:58PM
0 0
profile picture
Blake.P
Posts: 9894 - Karma: 3,585
This is correct. Good thing I just quit my job bagging groceries
Aug 14 2012 1:58PM
0 0
profile picture
grown-ninja
Posts: 3031 - Karma: 175
no idea honestly, look at smoking (i know you cant compare the two), tons of increased taxes, but the average number of people who smoke hasnt deviated much from around 20-21% over a bunch of years. 

Maybe I'm just bitter haha, I use plastics for a ton of things from carrying my lunch to cleaning up dog poop, instead of reusing these bags now ill have to buy some other plastic engendered carrying device-dang.
Aug 14 2012 2:08PM
0 0
profile picture
MFM
Posts: 842 - Karma: 77
i bring ma own bag, high-five Earth!
Aug 14 2012 2:42PM
0 0
profile picture
FBGM
Posts: 8184 - Karma: 2,677
If you're being sarcastic, you're a dumbass. It's a great incentive to bring your own bags. If everyone brought their own bags, it would make a pretty huge difference. But you're right, spending 5 cents>the environment.
Aug 14 2012 6:37PM
0 0
profile picture
zahava
Posts: 7791 - Karma: 12,039
What about this?

Click for larger image
Aug 14 2012 7:28PM
0 0
profile picture
Errl
Posts: 2082 - Karma: 451
This may not be true for you: but where I live, my newspaper comes in these ~10" bags that are perfect for poop pick-up. Then again, you may also have to pick up your dog's waste every time. Mine just go in a section of the yard.
Aug 14 2012 9:05PM
0 0
profile picture
Lick
Posts: 1927 - Karma: 518
you better be joking because you're a fucking idiot if you're not
Aug 14 2012 9:07PM
0 0
profile picture
FrysNation
Posts: 491 - Karma: 471
well reusable bags are an even bigger pain in the ass to bag
Aug 15 2012 11:52AM
0 0
profile picture
SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Get out. I'd take the reusable bag with structure that can be loaded to the brim over some flimsy plastic bag with the structural integrity of tissue paper any day.

If you find bagging a reusable bag difficult, you must be atrocious at Tetris.
Aug 15 2012 11:56AM
0 0
profile picture
Broommasta
Posts: 764 - Karma: 56
im all for that enviromental shit but fuck paper bags man
Aug 15 2012 12:03PM
0 0
profile picture
FBGM
Posts: 8184 - Karma: 2,677
Relatively speaking, is bagging any bag really THAT big of a pain in the ass? I can think of worse things in the world.
Aug 15 2012 12:06PM
0 0
profile picture
FrysNation
Posts: 491 - Karma: 471
no im a bagger and its a pain in the ass when you have 4 different sized bags opposed to the ones iim used to useing. it takes longer
Aug 15 2012 5:24PM
0 0
profile picture
llambert
Posts: 1005 - Karma: 81
i have to ring people out and bag screw the reuseable ones, save your plastic bags and use them for trash/dirty clothes or burn them we do so much worse things for the environment than the bags, theyre like a drop in the ocean
plus if you get the reuseable ones and if you arent a disgusting pig they need to be washed wasting water, heat, and detergent
Aug 15 2012 7:35PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)