Manitoba town bans plastic bags

[paisley]

It's official: Manitoba town gives plastic bags the boot

great work... hope other towns follow suit (guess San Francisco actually started the ball rolling last month)

95% of things you buy you don't need a bag for, the other 5% you can easily use boxes or re-usable bags for

It's estimated that a traditional plastic bag takes 1,000 years to dissolve.

[Jaimoe]

Great idea. Well done indeed. I re-use plastic bags as much as possible and use those bins and cloth-based shopping bags. I can't believe it when I see how many people at the corner store bagging a can of diet coke or a chocolate bar.

[phishtaper]

in guelph, we have to sort garbage and use three different coloured bags. one grocery chain in town has switched to transparent green bags so we can use them for our compostables. i thought this was pretty cool of them. you also have to pay 5cents for each bag there, which really cuts down on waste, i think.

it all helps.

[Jaimoe]

you also have to pay 5cents for each bag there, which really cuts down on waste, i think.

it all helps.

Ironically, some grocery stores charge you for bags. It's kind of a hidden cost that no one thinks about.

[dancingbear]

i think this is fantastic.

addmitingly i probably forget to bring my bags with me aobut 70% of the time, so wish they would ban them here to!

i think more towns should do this , and just say would you rather us ban bags or build a landfill in your community?