Fabric shopping bags grr!

[Minou]

I like plastic bags... the grunginess of reusable bags worries me... I like being able to throw out a bag if it's carried raw meat home from the store. I use my bags for garbage and for my lunches (no room in the fridge at work for a bulky reusable bag, and paper will tend to fall over with what I'm carrying in it), and to carry things. Now that we're getting residential garbage carts for garbage pickup, I'm thinking that lots of smaller bags would fit better than big black garbage bags, too. We also use them for disposing of very smelly diapers and used cat litter.

[Poirot]

How is it environmentally friendly when people have tons of cloth bags.I bet to make a cloth bag it's less environmentally friendly than a plastic bag.I use cloth bags too but I like plastic bags better for keeping what I'm buying if it's raining or snowing dry.

[harley]

Cloth bags started out as a good idea except for the fact that not everyone but quite a few people don't think they need to wash them. I am a cashier and it is disgusting the filth I see everyday from cloth bags. They come in covered in animal hair and smelling of dried blood from the meat. Yuck!!! Seriously if you found a hair in your food at a restaurant would you complain. Probably. Yet pile your food into more germs than you can imagine. I think they should ban the cloth bags not plastic as they are a bigger health risk. If you are not concerned about your health then by all means be concerned about paying 5 cents for plastic to help the environment that when you get sick from gross cloth bags won't matter anyway. PLEASE WASH YOUR BAGS

[PurpleBunny89]

I use plastic reuseable bags as 5c for a plastic disposable bag sure adds up. I keep all my reusables inside one big one and in the back seat of my car so always handy.

I do however only use plastic disposable bags at WM because they then come home and get used for kitty poop. If I did not have these to re-use then I would be buying them at Dollarama so this way I'm still helping with re-using them. They are bad quality bags though so sometimes I have to double up the bags so the holes of one bag are covered by the second bag. Wouldn't want any yucky litter coming out on the way to the shute!

[jayne_a]

i find that RCSS ware out faster than other other bag I've bought. i really like the Walmart and Canadian tire bags. I still get plastic bags b/c i use them for the garbage cans and kitty litter.

[wolfwoman]

I use canvas shopping bags and the RCSS folding bags. I have them hanging beside my door so as not to forget them. I have them in my truck as well. I wash my bags and it's no extra work as I'm doing laundry anways. I refuse to use plastic. Has anyone seen the plastic "island" swirling in the Pacific? Anyone who uses plastic as not seen a poor animal caught up in one of these stupid things. I hope that it will come to the point that we have to take our own containers to store to get meat as well. I have family living in France and that is the way things are done there. As for my cat litter and dog poop, use compostable bags made from corn. I hope more citys ban the bag and people will just adjust as they do to anything else.

[RebeccaRYoung]

I prefer plastic bags. I always use them for something, or recycle them, so they aren't wasted. The reusable bags always seem so dirty to me.

[sunny3]

I like the bins and also Sobey's bags big and small that keep things cold and stand up when you're putting stuff in them. I also like the little ones that roll up and are about the size of a change purse since i don't have to walk in looking like I'm carrying a bag.

[i_forget]

One bag that I use to have that I have not seen over in Canada are Jute bags. I had a couple that I got in England like 4 years ago but they only lasted me about a year. The bags were strong, kept their shape, had good handles, were a good size, had a liner in them that I could wipe out and they BIODEGRADE! After probably several hundred uses, the bag finally got a hole in it, and when the hole was too big that I could no longer use the bag, I just tossed it into my composter. The entire bag had broken down over the course of a winter. If I ever find something like that here, I would be buying those up, they were the best shopping bag EVER.

[Mssavvycanadian]

I'm really glad that cities are starting to ban plastic bags, its about time! We really need to clean up our act. Sure it might be an inconvenience at first but we just have to get used to it for a better cause (just like when recycling was first introduced people had to take the time to make it work). Canada alone uses 2.86 billion plastic bags each year! Thats appalling! I am all for switching to reusable bags, I find that the Sobeys bags work great and also some that I picked up at Pier1 when they had that $10 off $10 promo.