Science/Environment Phasing out Plastic Packaging

[Seeds]

Yeah I thought they used the 15c bags for deliveries - and they are definitely not single use

If you only use them once they are single use.

 

[Seeds]

i havent ordered with coles - but woolies deliver to me using the same white bags that they sell to punters for 15c

Do they take the bags back the next week to re-use?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Do they take the bags back the next week to re-use?

no, I keep them in my car and re-use myself

if your coles ones are heavy white with multiple red dots - they are multi use bags. you're an idiot if you throw them out (mine only start tearing after 20+ uses, and if its carrying things with sharp corners)

 

[Seeds]

no, I keep them in my car and re-use myself

if your coles ones are heavy white with multiple red dots - they are multi use bags. you're an idiot if you throw them out (mine only start tearing after 20+ uses, and if its carrying things with sharp corners)

I don’t throw them out but can you tell me what I’m supposed to do with over 750 odd bags. I’ve been online shopping since COVID started. I only need a handful of multi use bags and I already had those. So what do I do with 750 bags so they are actually used multiple times? My bags supply grows by around 10 every week. Do you see how the maths doesn’t enable these things to be multi use?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

I don’t throw them out but can you tell me what I’m supposed to do with over 750 odd bags. I’ve been online shopping since COVID started. I only need a handful of multi use bags and I already had those. So what do I do with 750 bags so they are actually used multiple times? My bags supply grows by around 10 every week. Do you see how the maths doesn’t enable these things to be multi use?

You order more than ten bags of groceries a week? Yeah...

 

[Madas]

I don’t throw them out but can you tell me what I’m supposed to do with over 750 odd bags. I’ve been online shopping since COVID started. I only need a handful of multi use bags and I already had those. So what do I do with 750 bags so they are actually used multiple times? My bags supply grows by around 10 every week. Do you see how the maths doesn’t enable these things to be multi use?

They are multi use when you re-use them .
The lockdown thing is difficult
Can you ask that your groceries be boxed ?
Maybe once lock down ends go to the shops yourself and take the bags to re-use.

Environment >convenience

we’ve been doing it for 25 years

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Laughing at exaggerating idiots aside, we reuse all our bags, and when they get worn they are either garbage bags or dog poop bags.

Haven't bought either for 10+ years

 

[Pessimistic]

The ‘forever bags’ are plastic too

don’t get started on face masks

 

[quotemokc]

Plastic really isn't the devil it is made out to be.

As long as it is disposed of properly (ie not littered) then it has a lower overall environmental impact than paper/cardboard.

 

[00Stinger]

I'm not going to lie I ****ing hate the new paper straws that have replaced the plastic ones

Totally hampers my drinking experience

 

[Scotland]

Plastic really isn't the devil it is made out to be.

As long as it is disposed of properly (ie not littered) then it has a lower overall environmental impact than paper/cardboard.

Have you met humans?

 

[quotemokc]

Have you met humans?

 

[Seeds]

You order more than ten bags of groceries a week? Yeah...

No I order around 10. They are small bags the Cole’s ones. Basically useless for anything else.


even if it was only 4 it still wouldn’t fix the problem.

 

[Seeds]

They are multi use when you re-use them .
The lockdown thing is difficult
Can you ask that your groceries be boxed ?
Maybe once lock down ends go to the shops yourself and take the bags to re-use.

Environment >convenience

we’ve been doing it for 25 years

If I go to the shops I only need 10 bags. I can use the same 10 bags each week. what do I do with the other 740?

plus i don’t want to go to the shops anyway. I have 2 young kids, me and my wife both work full time. Neither of us have any spare time to just waste 2 hours at a supermarket Each week.

we have asked that they don’t send us bags. We have asked to give the bags back so they can be re-used. They refuse.

 

[Number37]

we have asked that they don’t send us bags. We have asked to give the bags back so they can be re-used. They refuse.

It is a Covid safety measure that they must put your stuff in bags.

 

[Chief]

How so, you ever had an iced coffee with a paper straw?

I had a Macca's soft drink the other day
Middle of the Straw got ripped where it meets the lid after 5 min



On Pixel 4 using BigFooty.com mobile app

Use a second one.

 

[Chief]

i don’t want to go to the shops

Kind of making your own problem aren’t you?

 

[Seeds]

Kind of making your own problem aren’t you?

No. why do I have to go to the shops? The future is on line buying.

 

[Seeds]

It is a Covid safety measure that they must put your stuff in bags.

Yep. And then I touch the same bags they touched making the whole thing pointless.



irrational Covid safety trumps the environment.

 

[faible]

2 hours at a supermarket Each week.

What the hell are you buying that requires 2 hours at the supermarket.

You learn the layout after a few visits, you have a list, you're in and out in about 30 minutes for a decent sized shop.

Also 10 bags of groceries is a shitload of groceries, are 5 of them nappies or something?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

What the hell are you buying that requires 2 hours at the supermarket.

You learn the layout after a few visits, you have a list, you're in and out in about 30 minutes for a decent sized shop.

Also 10 bags of groceries is a shitload of groceries, are 5 of them nappies or something?

its also a shitload of garbage. how he's not using his 750 bags (lol) to bin this shit i dont get

between using them in the kitchen, bathroom, and study bins, plus the small ones for dog crap, we havent bought garbage bags for a decade (and we dont have a massive surplus of bags in the house)

 

[faible]

its also a shitload of garbage. how he's not using his 750 bags (lol) to bin this sh*t i dont get

between using them in the kitchen, bathroom, and study bins, plus the small ones for dog crap, we havent bought garbage bags for a decade (and we dont have a massive surplus of bags in the house)

I think a lot of the issue is that people kind of go "if Coles are going to keep giving me all these bags, it's not up to me to work out how to stop them being wasted."

Meanwhile Seeds is buying garbage bags to throw his 520 bags a year out in...

 

[Seeds]

What the hell are you buying that requires 2 hours at the supermarket.

You learn the layout after a few visits, you have a list, you're in and out in about 30 minutes for a decent sized shop.

Also 10 bags of groceries is a shitload of groceries, are 5 of them nappies or something?

Do you shop with young kids? Not to mention have a wife who likes weird ingredients that are hard to find? Plus there is the 20 mins of commuting to and from the shops. Its 2 hours every time.

 

[faible]

Do you shop with young kids? Not to mention have a wife who likes weird ingredients that are hard to find? Plus there is the 20 mins of commuting to and from the shops. Its 2 hours every time.

Who takes their young kids to the shops? One parent goes to the shops while the other occupies the kids, that's how about 99% of people I know manage to get it done.

Weird ingredients aren't that hard to find if you know the supermarket layout

But we're still at 10 bags of groceries, how!

 

[Chief]

No. why do I have to go to the shops? The future is on line buying.

I know, but there is a solution there.

Are these the plastic ones or the fabric ones?

Either way you can probably donate them to your local school, St Vinnies, Op Shop etc.