45 replies to this topic

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Now that's committment and long range future planning, glad to see LA will ban plastic bags a 101 years from now.

Oooopppppsssss -- my fingers weren't connecting with my brain. Good catch!

[bordercolliefan]

Kudos to WalMart for this effort to reduce plastic waste. I'm happy to use my own cloth bags.

Now if only my brain could catch up with my good intentions...

[Bill Z]

Kudos to WalMart for this effort to reduce plastic waste. I'm happy to use my own cloth bags.

Now if only my brain could catch up with my good intentions...

I've got bags in most of my cars, but never seem to remember to take them in.

Except the Costco mondo bags when I'm at Costco, for some reason I remember those.

At Winco I like to use the paper bags, then I use those for recyclable waste.

Slight tangent, how many of you know that the sewage treatment plant doesn't want coffee grounds or egg shells to be run thru your garbage disposal?

[justfolsom.com]

I think it is ridiculous for Wal-Mart or anyone to make you buy a bag. This is just another way to kill freedom of choice. The choice to buy a bag or use the one you already pay for. Yes !! let’s allow the big rich companies make more money, meanwhile, people in Folsom are losing their homes, jobs and families. Let’s make them pay an extra 5 cents more per bag. If they are concerned about the environment why don’t they use biodegradable plastic bags? Why charge for bags that aren’t biodegradable? This does not make any sense to me and I will not support it. Wal-Mart is brain washing people into believing what they are doing is for the environment when what they are doing is hiding behind the truth. The truth is they found another way to make more money.

[justfolsom.com]

Now that's committment and long range future planning, glad to see LA will ban plastic bags a 101 years from now.

Look... I think reusing bags is fine and needed, but some of these reusable bags will endup in the garbage system and they are not bio bags. So what is Wal-mart truly achieving.. Nothing !! ...oooops! I'm wrong they are taking our right of choice and making money on it ! Your right Bill..thats long term planning.

[MrsTuffPaws]

Look... I think reusing bags is fine and needed, but some of these reusable bags will endup in the garbage system and they are not bio bags. So what is Wal-mart truly achieving.. Nothing !! ...oooops! I'm wrong they are taking our right of choice and making money on it ! Your right Bill..thats long term planning.

You don't HAVE to bring Wal*Mart branded bags. Bring your own biodegradable bags if you like.

[The Average Joe]

"Bring your own biodegradable bags if you like."

The illusion of choice...mantra for this generation...

[justfolsom.com]

"Bring your own biodegradable bags if you like."

The illusion of choice...mantra for this generation...

Why can't they supply BIO BAGs ????? Don't we pay enough !! Don't you see what they are doing ???

[MrsTuffPaws]

Why can't they supply BIO BAGs ????? Don't we pay enough !! Don't you see what they are doing ???

They're not doing anything to me. I don't shop there.

[Oldschooler81]

I have mixed feelings on this, and I can see what both sides are saying. I'm fairly liberal and environmentalist, so I think anything that can be done to reduce waste is a good thing. The regular plastic bags most stores use get thrown away (most people don't even recycle them!) and when you multiply that and think of every store in every place across the country, if 90% of shoppers just toss them...well that's alot of bags, lmao.

The idea of bringing your own bags to the store is good too. Makes it easier on everyone (the shoppers for having the quick conveinence, and the employees for not having to scrounge for a bag every single time). I've worked retail and I go shopping alot too, so I'm on both sides.

That being said, I can see why people would be opposed to not even having a CHOICE. Because lots of times people might forget their bags at home (we always forget stuff when we're running late, lol) or what if you're in the area and just decide on a spur of the moment to stop in. In those cases you'd have to buy one of theirs, and even though 15c doesn't sound like alot of money, it does add up. Especially if you need 10 of them.

What I'm trying to say is that I AM for it, but the store should probably keep some regular bags in the meantime, just for backups. They should encourage people to use their bags, but it shouldn't be 100% required. Someone here said too, about them having their own biodegradable bags, and I think that's a great idea. Maybe just keep a teeny bit of the old style ones while people get used to switching over.

P.S. This is the first ever Walmart I went to c. 1994 (unless they built another one) on Riley, and I remember it being really good back then. Of course, that's still when they were a novelty as opposed to on every block, lol.

[Darth Lefty]

Freedom of choice! You people crack me up.

[Trail_Runner]

They're not doing anything to me. I don't shop there.

I'd have to agree with this, I don't really shop there either. But I also haven't used a bag from a store for years. I have been using the same reusable bags for two years, and I got them for free from the company I work for. Even if I did purchase them they would only have cost about $1 each, and that $5 total purchase for all my bags will have lasted me through all my shopping for two years and counting.

[rockcrawler]

Slight tangent, how many of you know that the sewage treatment plant doesn't want coffee grounds or egg shells to be run thru your garbage disposal?

Never heard of that. I actually put most of my coffee grounds in my compost bin but whatever is left in the french press that gets rinsed out goes right into the disposal. Isn't that what a disposal if for?

[Oldschooler81]

I forgot to say too that I always save the plastic bags for reuse or to put them in a recycling bin. That's especially useful for the big ones, like from Target or when I'd get alot of stuff from the record stores (since HS I've been buying at secondhand stores and I love 80s/older stuff, so I commonly get alot, meaning I get the huge bags). They really come in handy if you need something quick.

[Abandka]

I understand the whole preserve nature thing and stuff, but what is my master supposed to put my dog poop in. My master saves the plastic bags to put to other use, one of which is to put poop in , tie up shut, before tossing it in the garbage. We all know poop is biodegradeable, but the directions on green waste specifically say not to put animal poop into it.

Why put it in the green cans, when you can simply flush it...and reuse the one bag over and over again...

How DID people survive before disposable diapers?