H.D. wrote:
> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> H.D. wrote:
>>> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> H.D. wrote:
>>>>> <petzl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>
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>>>>> On May 11, 8:53 pm, Sir John Howard <sirjohnhow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>> When do KRudd, Swann and the rest of the labour stooges plan to do
>>>>>> something constructive and positive for this country?
>>>>> When and if they can ban
>>>>> plastic shopping bags - I suppose
>>>>>
>>>>> So you think that this is easy?
>>>>> I fill up my trolley with Groceries, get to the check out and put
them
>>>>> on the belt. The girl scans them and puts them in bags. No bags?
Where
>>>>> does she put the Groceries? They need another boy to put them back
into
>>>>> the trolley. One more wage, up go the prices of groceries, up goes
>>>>> inflation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You have suddenly become unable to shovel it all back into the
trolley
>>>> you got it out of yourself, because you are too fkn stupid to get a
>>>> couple of reusable bags? Wouldn't take any longer than bagging it.
>>> If you have a trolley full of groceries, you are still putting them on
>>> the belt by thre time the girl has filled 20 bags.
>>> You probably never went shopping for a family and have no idea. You
would
>>> be the one complaining when it takes 2 hours for me to get through the
>>> check out.
>>>
>>> Why should I supply shopping bags? Should I also bring Jars for them
to
>>> fill them up with jam?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Because it's a total waste of money and oil and the empty bags end up
all
>> over the place. And you are perpetually paying for the privilege.
>> I have done almost all the shopping for 4, for 25 years and it takes
about
>> 1 plastic bag per person per day. 20 bags means you shop for something
>> between 20 daily and 3 once a week. Some only have time to shop weekly,
>> but it's a bad way to do it and eat properly. When you have a ****load
you
>> get ahead of the till and can get another trolley and fill it yourself
-
>> that would be 10 reusable bags for which you would need 2 trolleys and
>> someone has to get the stuff off the counter to clear space before it's
>> all rung through anyway. And 2 trolleys out to the car - do you do all
>> this on your own?
>
> With the cost of petrol to go to town, I do the shopping for 4 once a
month.
> This means two fully loaded trolleys at Wollies, plus some more at
Aldies.
> I buy fruit, vegies, milk and bread daily at the shop along the Highway
just
> around the corner. Meat is cheaper in bulk so that gets brought by the
> Freezer load every 6 months. There are many people who do the shopping
that
> way.
> By the way, Plastic bags can be recycled. It would make more sense to
ban
> Newspapers and get all the news on the internet.
>
>
>
>
>
None of which proves an extra person would need to be employed, much
less if you had your own bags and much less at the daily perishable shop.
Bags can be recycled, but it costs and they mostly don't and why should
they need to be anyway when you can just own some 50c bags and be done
with it? Is this the "as long as I don't personally get the bill it's
not costing me" attitude?
Yeah other resource saving actions might make sense too, but how can you
say reusable bags don't?
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