Why not paper?

[Jolly]

In Vermont, no more Walmart plastic bags. Bring your own or purchase Walmart reusable bags for 33 cents. Program is expanding to Maine and other states.

I see no real problem, as they make plastic bags today which decompose in six months. But if you can't have that, why not paper bags?

And, in a back to the future move, why not recycle cardboard boxes for some pickup orders?

Are decomposable bags that huge of a problem?

[jon-nyc]

They did away with them here. Now some stores give paper, stop and shop charges 5c per paper bag, and they don’t even have handles on them. Higher end stores like TJs and Whole Foods give paper bags with handles.

On my last several vacations I kept all my plastic bags from grocery shopping and brought them back here. Double bagging on purpose. It’s just convenient to have them around at times.

[George K]

I always ask for paper. It's the ideal cage liner.

If they don't have paper, I'll accept plastic because I'm bisackual.

[Doctor Phibes]

I much prefer the paper bags. Stop and Shop here are still doing plastic, but we try and recycle them all back to where they came from - the stores have a recycling center. Whether they end up in a landfill anyway is unknown.

[Mik]

@George-K said in Why not paper?:

I always ask for paper. It's the ideal cage liner.

If they don't have paper, I'll accept plastic because I'm bisackual.

"My pronouns are paper and plastic".

[Jolly]

Here's another problem...Walmart in those areas not using plastic, uses their multi-use bags for all pickup or delivery orders.

I know that many folks today, do pickup or delivery exclusively. What happens to that stack of bags that will invariably pile up?

People are going to throw those away, I'm guessing...And they will take years or decades to decompose...