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Old 02-14-2009, 11:30 PM
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Default Re: please watch about plastic bags

My local grocery store offers incentives. If you bring your own cloth bag you get 5 cents off your bill.
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Old 02-15-2009, 01:58 PM
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My local grocery store offers incentives. If you bring your own cloth bag you get 5 cents off your bill.
The supermarkets in UK give you store card points for bringing any type of bags but it is not really an incentive to make people change. If we are going to achieve significant changes there needs to be greater encouragement and incentive to change.
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Old 02-18-2009, 12:55 AM
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Default Re: please watch about plastic bags

I think rather than waiting for a government ban on the use of plastic bags, it is time we made the ammends ourselves and stopped using them, cloth bags, paper bags are quite handy if you really start using them all the time.
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Old 02-18-2009, 11:02 AM
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Default Re: please watch about plastic bags

Well in the UK, supermarkets are being made to reduce plastic bag usage by the government and there are also now measures to reduce use by charging for bags, encouraging people to reuse them, and bring their own cloth bags.. there has already been a significant decrease in use.
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Old 06-30-2009, 09:51 AM
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Default Re: please watch about plastic bags

Good initiative to ban plastic bags. My supermarket doesn't think about that, but they charge for plastic bags indeed..

Unfortunately..I don't really see any change, a lot of people still buy the plastic bags..
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