"Larry" wrote in message
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On 6/14/10 3:56 PM, John H wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:55:11 -0400, John
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:14:08 -0400, wrote:

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On Jun 11, 8:12 pm, John wrote:
" "?a Fairfax Water customer who buys a 20-ounce bottle of water
for
$1.25
could fill that same 20-ounce bottle with our tap water every day
for
more than
10 years for that same $1.25."

I wish they'd charge a 25cent deposit for every plastic bottle
sold.

"Bottled Water" in Ontario, will soon be a thing of the past.
Thank
Gawd....

It's outlawed in Halifax Municipal offices& meetings.
Province has been talking about the same thing.

The utility of bottled water is imeasurable. Freezing water to make
ice
cubes is a waste of a valuable resource when the ice is put into a
cooler. Freezing bottles of water to use as "ice" in a cooler
doesn't
waste the water. Besides there is plenty of oil around to continue
to
make the plastic bottles.

Well, that just means you're putting that bottle on which you paid a
deposit to
good use. That's much better than trashing it alongside the road or
in the bay.

Littering is a separate issue. Do you think we should have a deposit
on all containers, wrappers and cups?
I fish out all the trash I see in the river and I get as many ice
bags, subway bags and styrofoam cups as I do beverage containers.
Water bottles are really fairly rare.

Right now my hangup is with plastic bottles. Some places are already
charging
for plastic bags, and I've no problem with that either. Biodegradable
containers are OK.


This will give you a stroke for sure, herring, but I agree with you...


Last year one of our major grocery stores started charging for their
flimsy plastic bags. They expected you to buy the larger sacks for
multiple re-uses.
Trouble is, their competition didn't, and still provided better quality
plastic bags...so the 1st store reverted to the previous practice.
note: the bags cost the store around a penny each, but then charged the
customers a nickel per.
The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Huh?
What do you carry in yours... your socks?

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:01:33 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:55 -0400, Larry wrote:

The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Yeah, one serious advantage to the plastic bag is you can separate
your foods. You really don't want your fresh fruit in a bag that has a
leaky chicken package in it or one that had one in it yesterday.
That woven fabric is a science fair project if you are not washing it
with bleach EVERY time you use it.
The other issue would be the chemicals you typically buy at the store.
Make sure you don't use the same bag for groceries that you use when
you are buying insecticide at Home Depot.

Paper bags and woven bags. How we did it before the plastic bags.

In article ,
says...

"Larry" wrote in message
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YukonBound wrote:


"Harry" wrote in message
m...
On 6/14/10 3:56 PM, John H wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:55:11 -0400, John
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:14:08 -0400, wrote:

In ,
says...

wrote in message
...
On Jun 11, 8:12 pm, John wrote:
" "?a Fairfax Water customer who buys a 20-ounce bottle of water
for
$1.25
could fill that same 20-ounce bottle with our tap water every day
for
more than
10 years for that same $1.25."

I wish they'd charge a 25cent deposit for every plastic bottle
sold.

"Bottled Water" in Ontario, will soon be a thing of the past.
Thank
Gawd....

It's outlawed in Halifax Municipal offices& meetings.
Province has been talking about the same thing.

The utility of bottled water is imeasurable. Freezing water to make
ice
cubes is a waste of a valuable resource when the ice is put into a
cooler. Freezing bottles of water to use as "ice" in a cooler
doesn't
waste the water. Besides there is plenty of oil around to continue
to
make the plastic bottles.

Well, that just means you're putting that bottle on which you paid a
deposit to
good use. That's much better than trashing it alongside the road or
in the bay.

Littering is a separate issue. Do you think we should have a deposit
on all containers, wrappers and cups?
I fish out all the trash I see in the river and I get as many ice
bags, subway bags and styrofoam cups as I do beverage containers.
Water bottles are really fairly rare.

Right now my hangup is with plastic bottles. Some places are already
charging
for plastic bags, and I've no problem with that either. Biodegradable
containers are OK.


This will give you a stroke for sure, herring, but I agree with you...


Last year one of our major grocery stores started charging for their
flimsy plastic bags. They expected you to buy the larger sacks for
multiple re-uses.
Trouble is, their competition didn't, and still provided better quality
plastic bags...so the 1st store reverted to the previous practice.
note: the bags cost the store around a penny each, but then charged the
customers a nickel per.
The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Huh?
What do you carry in yours... your socks?

Little buddy, I know your not as smart, worldly, debonair, and
sophisticated as I, a Yale graduate, but you have to stop and think. A
leaky meat package and that "permanent" bag could be contaminated with
all sorts of things, salmonella being one. Then, next time, you get some
fresh fruit, and eat it, guess what?

On 6/16/10 9:07 AM, Harry wrote:


Little buddy, I know your not as smart...


"...your..."

More evidence that the ID spoofer is dumfoch Loogy, breaker of the arms
of little girls.

The word you want is you're, the contraction for you are.

In article ,
says...

On 6/16/10 9:07 AM, Harry wrote:


Little buddy, I know your not as smart...


"...your..."

More evidence that the ID spoofer is dumfoch Loogy, breaker of the arms
of little girls.

The word you want is you're, the contraction for you are.

Spoofer alert! Everyone knows that my little buddy Don is the newsgroup
typo and grammar policewoman.

On 6/16/10 9:49 AM, Harry wrote:
you're, the contraction for you are.

Spoofer alert!

Sorry, Loogy...we don't post via eternal-september.org!

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:49:50 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:01:33 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:55 -0400, Larry wrote:

The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Yeah, one serious advantage to the plastic bag is you can separate
your foods. You really don't want your fresh fruit in a bag that has a
leaky chicken package in it or one that had one in it yesterday.
That woven fabric is a science fair project if you are not washing it
with bleach EVERY time you use it.
The other issue would be the chemicals you typically buy at the store.
Make sure you don't use the same bag for groceries that you use when
you are buying insecticide at Home Depot.

Paper bags and woven bags. How we did it before the plastic bags.

I remember paper, we threw them away when we were done with them.
When they got wet they are useless. It is so bad it was a metaphor.
(couldn't punch your way out of a wet paper bag)
Never saw a woven grocery bag until a few years ago.

Paper in plastic.. Yep, we get both. My dad insisted on in and he always
got his own way and the wife likes them for the cat box remnants...

--
Rowdy Mouse Racing - We race for cheese!

On 6/16/10 2:44 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:49:50 -0400, John
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:01:33 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:55 -0400, wrote:

The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Yeah, one serious advantage to the plastic bag is you can separate
your foods. You really don't want your fresh fruit in a bag that has a
leaky chicken package in it or one that had one in it yesterday.
That woven fabric is a science fair project if you are not washing it
with bleach EVERY time you use it.
The other issue would be the chemicals you typically buy at the store.
Make sure you don't use the same bag for groceries that you use when
you are buying insecticide at Home Depot.

Paper bags and woven bags. How we did it before the plastic bags.

I remember paper, we threw them away when we were done with them.
When they got wet they are useless. It is so bad it was a metaphor.
(couldn't punch your way out of a wet paper bag)
Never saw a woven grocery bag until a few years ago.

Paper in plastic.. Yep, we get both. My dad insisted on in and he always
got his own way and the wife likes them for the cat box remnants...


Your food bank gives you groceries double-bagged in paper and plastic?

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:48:21 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:49:50 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:01:33 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:55 -0400, Larry wrote:

The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember to
put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Yeah, one serious advantage to the plastic bag is you can separate
your foods. You really don't want your fresh fruit in a bag that has a
leaky chicken package in it or one that had one in it yesterday.
That woven fabric is a science fair project if you are not washing it
with bleach EVERY time you use it.
The other issue would be the chemicals you typically buy at the store.
Make sure you don't use the same bag for groceries that you use when
you are buying insecticide at Home Depot.

Paper bags and woven bags. How we did it before the plastic bags.

I remember paper, we threw them away when we were done with them.
When they got wet they are useless. It is so bad it was a metaphor.
(couldn't punch your way out of a wet paper bag)
Never saw a woven grocery bag until a few years ago.

They were biodegradable too. And, they soak up bacon and country fried steak
grease much better than plastic. Wouldn't woven include baskets?

YukonBound wrote:


"Larry" wrote in message
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YukonBound wrote:


"Harry" wrote in message
m...
On 6/14/10 3:56 PM, John H wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:55:11 -0400, John
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:14:08 -0400, wrote:

In ,
says...

wrote in message
...

On Jun 11, 8:12 pm, John wrote:
" "?a Fairfax Water customer who buys a 20-ounce bottle of
water for
$1.25
could fill that same 20-ounce bottle with our tap water
every day for
more than
10 years for that same $1.25."

I wish they'd charge a 25cent deposit for every plastic
bottle sold.

"Bottled Water" in Ontario, will soon be a thing of the past.
Thank
Gawd....

It's outlawed in Halifax Municipal offices& meetings.
Province has been talking about the same thing.

The utility of bottled water is imeasurable. Freezing water to
make ice
cubes is a waste of a valuable resource when the ice is put into a
cooler. Freezing bottles of water to use as "ice" in a cooler
doesn't
waste the water. Besides there is plenty of oil around to
continue to
make the plastic bottles.

Well, that just means you're putting that bottle on which you
paid a deposit to
good use. That's much better than trashing it alongside the road
or in the bay.

Littering is a separate issue. Do you think we should have a deposit
on all containers, wrappers and cups?
I fish out all the trash I see in the river and I get as many ice
bags, subway bags and styrofoam cups as I do beverage containers.
Water bottles are really fairly rare.

Right now my hangup is with plastic bottles. Some places are
already charging
for plastic bags, and I've no problem with that either.
Biodegradable
containers are OK.


This will give you a stroke for sure, herring, but I agree with you...


Last year one of our major grocery stores started charging for their
flimsy plastic bags. They expected you to buy the larger sacks for
multiple re-uses.
Trouble is, their competition didn't, and still provided better
quality plastic bags...so the 1st store reverted to the previous
practice.
note: the bags cost the store around a penny each, but then charged
the customers a nickel per.
The big 'permanent' bags cost a dollar... you just have to remember
to put them back in the car each time.
And wash them. Disgusting...

Huh?
What do you carry in yours... your socks?
Meat, poultry, pork, seafood... I don't go to the grocery store but my
wife insists on using those things. They are washable.