Study: Reusable bags pose health risk

Well then wash after each use. Duh! Or don't put meat in them. Save the plastic for that. Spray with a little lysol too.

Enter name here wrote:

Well then wash after each use. Duh! Or don't put meat in them. Save the plastic for that. Spray with a little lysol too.

Stop being so logical! You'll never be a Newsday reporter with that intelligent thinking.

So if you're bleaching and washing it each time doesn't that waste more resources than using a bag once and then recycling it?

Wash not waste not wrote:

So if you're bleaching and washing it each time doesn't that waste more resources than using a bag once and then recycling it?

There is so much more plastic in all of the products we buy than in the bags. I don't understand why all the fuss.

Enter name here wrote:

Well then wash after each use. Duh! Or don't put meat in them. Save the plastic for that. Spray with a little lysol too.

Like we have nothing else to do but wash supermarket bags....

liner wrote:

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Like we have nothing else to do but wash supermarket bags....

It's eco-insanity.

All of you ultra libs can enjoy getting sick from reusing your grocery bags. By the way, why not tell your health care providers to re use gloves, needles and other disposable items on you to "save the environment?"

This whole "save the planet" thing is a joke. People don't care about the environment. They only care about the continuation of their own pathetic species. If they really wanted to help the planet they'd stop having kids and let this miserable species go extinct.

Easy solution. Use ONE plastic bag to wrap and carry home meat. WASH your reusable bags, just like you would do towels.

Anit-human wrote:

This whole "save the planet" thing is a joke. People don't care about the environment. They only care about the continuation of their own pathetic species. If they really wanted to help the planet they'd stop having kids and let this miserable species go extinct.

Let's start with you first!

For $10, I will sanitize your bags.

I'll throw in one carbon credit as well.

toldyouso wrote:

All of you ultra libs can enjoy getting sick from reusing your grocery bags. By the way, why not tell your health care providers to re use gloves, needles and other disposable items on you to "save the environment?"

Another stupid conservative comparing apples to oranges!!! HOW THE EFF CAN YOU RELATE MEDICAL USES WITH GROCERY BAGS??? We need the enviornment, It doesn't need us so we need to protect it and take care of it as much as we can. A lot of the procedures into taking care of our enviornment pose NO THREAT to human health what so ever so stop with your excuses, stop thinking you're better than every one else, stop littering,stop only caring about your BMW, and start being a little more caring about the planet!!!!!!!!

Anit-human wrote:

This whole "save the planet" thing is a joke. People don't care about the environment. They only care about the continuation of their own pathetic species. If they really wanted to help the planet they'd stop having kids and let this miserable species go extinct.

I thought it was me speaking for a second!!!
AGREE 100%!!

That report is blown so out of proportion. The reusable bags that feel like mesh fabric such as the ones sold in Stop and Shop and Target can be washed in the washing machine and they air dry in about 30 minutes. Easy peasy.

I prefer the plastic bags.
They make great play toys for small kids.

the article is balanced but the headline is not.

Do the environment and yourselves a favor and avoid using shopping bags or food transportation and preparation costs altogether by discretely eating your way through the supermarket and simply leaving. End of problem!

I only reuse the plastic bags to pick up after my dog. No worries here.

Express Press Printing wrote:

I only reuse the plastic bags to pick up after my dog. No worries here.

Yes, when we do get plastic, we re-use them as well. If we get too many, I'll stuff them in the recycle bin at the supermarket.

liner wrote:

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Like we have nothing else to do but wash supermarket bags....

A spray of lysol or clorox anywhere spray does not take a lot of time if needed. If you just use the re-usable bags for boxed dry goods, then no need to clean out. Ever hear of common sense? Save plastic for meat and produce, then reuse them as garbage bags, cat and dog waste or put in the stores recycling bin. You may even burn a few calories lazy bones!