Chicago looks to limit use of plastic bags

American Chick wrote:

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Good QUestion

You give them to the person who is bagging your items at checkout time.

Chicago is Corrupt wrote:

As for stores recycling? Is it urban myth or truth that the current group of stores that offer recycling boxes just compact the contents and send it off with their everyday garbage?

Thank you for asking that. I've been meticulously saving and returning all those grocery plastic bags for years, believing that they were recyling them in some way or another. That's what we were told, and I (apparently stupidly) believed them!

I've heard a couple of times just this week that they REALLY just throw them out with all the other trash and they aren't "recycled" at all,(unless of course you consider building up a landfill to be 'recycling').

minn1939 wrote:

I like the idea but I use plastic bays when I dispose of my wet garbage. Can't use paper for that. And there's no place to put it in a compost pile. What would I use in place of them .

Um...wait for the wet garbage to dry out first?:-)

OK people, let's start using our brains. Those that use the bags for other things, keep doing it. That is why they are not banning them, just requiring stores to take them back. Those that want to claim it is a way to fill Daley and his friends pockets, this is not a tax and no one will profit from this. And Daley came out against it.

Those that say use biodegradable bags for dog poop, its still going in a landfill. At that point, what does it matter if the bag crumbles or not.

And for anyone who doesn't use cloth or sturdy plastic bags at the grocery, try it. It is so much easier than dealing with a dozen flimsy plastic baggies.

Bobby wrote:

OK people, let's start using our brains. Those that use the bags for other things, keep doing it. That is why they are not banning them, just requiring stores to take them back. Those that want to claim it is a way to fill Daley and his friends pockets, this is not a tax and no one will profit from this. And Daley came out against it.
Those that say use biodegradable bags for dog poop, its still going in a landfill. At that point, what does it matter if the bag crumbles or not.
And for anyone who doesn't use cloth or sturdy plastic bags at the grocery, try it. It is so much easier than dealing with a dozen flimsy plastic baggies.

I suppose I could start washing the poo-poo bags ...

But then there are all the bad things people say about detergent ...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm loosing my mind! AAAAAAAAAAAAA Planet's Doomed! Planet's Doomed! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!