XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 12/9/25 19:30, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:38:46 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> They charge for each plastic bag you get on the exit cashier, and they   
   >> encourage people to buy reusable bags. Thus, we have to enter the shop   
   >> with empty reusable bags. It is their doing, not ours. Well, government   
   >> regulation, actually. Pushed by the EU.   
   >   
   > They encourage people to use them in the US. I have several but seldom   
   > have them with me. Besides, the plastic bags come in handy when cleaning   
   > the litter box.   
   >   
      
   	Maybe they encourage people to use them in your vicinity, city, county,   
   state but in   
   San Francisco City, County of San Francisco, State of California we are   
   discouraged from   
   single use bags.  As far as it goes when I read in one of those   
   underground newspapers,   
   possibly the LA Star, that animal were badly affected by the use of such   
   bags I started   
   buying reusable bags, and hold my self-bestowed title of the Old Bag   
   with a Bag Full of   
   Bags.  That started about 45 years back.   
   	So nice paper bags at the stores I shop at though I seldom use them.   
   	The plastic bags for fruit and vegetable are made out of starch based   
   material.   
   	I hear that there are problems with those as they disintegrate but they   
   go into   
   landfills where they can do it peacefully.   
   	   
   	bliss   
      
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