Don't forget to shake the bag with all the contents in it.
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I shop at No Frills and I don't remember the last time I got bags. I usually get boxes, the ones they put out there from the products they get, and for people to use. And most people that shop there do this.
Well technically SOME plastic bags are needed for the trash can, until they figure out a way to fix this problem too.
What we all need is one of those little dinosaurs the Flintstones had under their sink and ATE everything.
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Pfft! ustedes estan mas perdidos que Cristóbal Colón. Remeber Knob hill farms? and all the black or grey plastic baskets people always brought to put the groceries in? which also served as a laundry hamper at home if you had extras? or storage baskets for the garage? THOSE are the most useful items i've ever seen. They should bring those to stores rather than canvas bags. My food will squish in a canvas bag!
those bins were the bomb! I remember we had like a million at home and we used them for laundry, for storage and even to take on picnics when we used to go to highpark. Ahhh the memories
As for the bags, I agree. We have soooo many bags at home, and we use those grocery bags that they sell at Dominion. So we dont even get plastic bags when we do market, and yet we still manage to have a little mountain of them at home.
The opinions expressed by this poster can be offensive and are mainly directed at Dogo. Delta gamma b i t c h-orama. Copyright 2008 All rights reserved.
Pfft! ustedes estan mas perdidos que Cristóbal Colón. Remeber Knob hill farms? and all the black or grey plastic baskets people always brought to put the groceries in? which also served as a laundry hamper at home if you had extras? or storage baskets for the garage? THOSE are the most useful items i've ever seen. They should bring those to stores rather than canvas bags. My food will squish in a canvas bag!
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my question is.. why don't they just stop making them out of the petroleum stuff? i have biodegradable bags that i use for our compost... couldn't they use the same material to make all bags?
personally.. i'm on the fence with this issue... 'cause i shop in large quantities so those little canvas bags aren't going to cut it for me.. i guess i could just buy more of those bags?
i know this all seems cumbersome but i figure contributing to little things like this will help our environment in the long run. Honestly, i have soooo many plastic bags at home that I dont know what to do with them.
The Ontario government unveiled a consumer incentives program on Wednesday aimed at reducing the number of plastic bags being used.
The goal is to cut plastic bag use in half over the next five years, Environment Minister Laurel Broten announced.
"So we're going to get a billion bags a year out of the system and that's a critical amount," Broten said.
The province has partnered with the Recycling Council of Ontario and grocer and retail associations to implement the consumer incentives system that includes store points redeemable for products, air miles or cash for customers who use reusable bags.
The program is voluntary, but if it doesn't work, the province could force mandatory per bag charges or even outright bans, the Toronto Star reported.
Other aspects of the system include training for store clerks to double-bag less often, fill bags with more items and stop bagging large or single items.
The incentive program originates from a pilot project in Sault Ste. Marie.
"It's not the be-all and end-all," Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said.
"But it's a really important thing that we can, each and every one of us, do on our own. I think one of the most important messages coming out of today's announcement is (that) we should all be asking ourselves what we are going to do. Why wouldn't we buy some reusable bags?"
Ontario's 12.6 million residents currently use 7 million plastic bags a day, which amounts to about four bags per person each week.
Many grocery stores have already tried to reduce the number of plastic bags being used by offering cloth or canvas bags or reusable bins and providing goodies to customers who use them, such as air miles.
The Recycling Council of Ontario, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, says most plastic bags end up in landfills. The council also says most people feel the bags are littering their communities.
But if the plan is not effective within five years, council spokesperson Jo-Anne St. Godard said there is no backup plan.
"As the minister had indicated in the announcements this morning, she has a regulatory tool box that she can go to if we are unable to actually achieve our target," St. Goddard said. She added that the council feels confident the goals will be reached.
After Wednesday's announcement, opposition critics blasted the plan. Conservative critic Tim Hudak said the governing Liberals took four years to come up with a system that won't reduce the use of plastic bags.
Ontario is one of many jurisdictions around the world trying to curb the growing number of plastic bags, which take hundreds of years to break down as they are made from petroleum products.
Last month, Leaf Rapids, a small town in Manitoba, became the first municipality in Canada to ban plastic shopping bags.
In March, San Francisco became the first city in North America to ban plastic bags in grocery stores and large pharmacies.
how could i forget.. poor little georgie needs exercise! 
its supposed to be me... I've been eating so many of those baby carrots lately that I don't think I can stuff anymore in my mouth.. 
Roses are red violets are korny, when I think of you Ohh baby I get horny...
@ Mooner. But i like your cutie patootie avatar 
