I noticed these shopping bags are on sale they are perfect for keeping in the car for shopping or as bin liners Was $17.90 now $15.90 for 600
Works out 3 cents a bag
Pick up Brisbane
*Shipping varies
Large Plastic Shopping Bags are perfect to carry goods and is suitable for retail stores such as groceries, convenience stores, general goods stores and hospitality businesses such as cafes, restaurants and take out stores.
R.I.P. Paper - Long live paper
Erm… didja mean 'R.I.P. plastic ?!?
Nah, it's a lame joke based off of my comments in Stew's previous thread.
Why would you wear a plastic bag
Similar quality to the Bond's singlet? (these days) 😂
Was $17.90 now $15.90 for 600
Works out 3 cents a bag
Was free. Now 3 cents a bag.
yep. help save the planet. dont use these as bin liners, use those reusable ones. They can hold more rubbish.
why do you need bin liners?
Where are people meant to put damp rubbish?
dirty nappies for 1
why do you need bin liners?
Mr Doobey, R-U-serious?
Just in case you actually do not know, it is so that the person/s tasked with emptying the rubbish from inside the house periodically does not have to carry that entire bin from its location inside the house to the point of rubbish collection outside the house. Please assure me that you in fact knew that, and were just 'takin the piss'?
If that is not the case I could go on/attempt to enlighten you more specifically about additional related points pertaining to things like the associated potential for strain/injury, the spread of infection, needless excessive water waste resulting from routinely washing the stench off an unlined in-house bin that is routinely carted to and fro, etc.…
Seriously though, please assure me that 'why do you need bin liners?' was your idea of a quaint wee 'historical throw-back' kind of joke?
Woolies have now more fruit wrapped in plastic then ever before! Kids fruit, bananas etc. That is more ridiculous then the free bin liners that they were giving away. I now use more thicker bin bags as a result of the ban and this is good how?
THAN ffs!😂
Woolies have now more fruit wrapped in plastic than ever before! Kids fruit, bananas etc. That is more ridiculous than the free bin liners that they were giving away. I now use more thicker bin bags as a result of the ban and this is good how?
Nope, you are wrong.
Its then, as its time related and an adverb.
Than is a conjunction, and used in comparisons.
Its then, as its time related and an adverb.
Than is a conjunction, and used in comparisons.
LOLOL, absolute BS Quogmeister, as I'm sure you're aware. Of course 'than' is correct as nismotron points out, and you—Quogmeister—are kinda 'soft-trolling' here. Albeit amusingly so. I like how you built a few 'dead giveaways' into your joke response… 'its' (not "it's"), 'time related' (not 'time-related'), etc. :)
Chuckle
My local woolies to save staff wages cuts deli meats in various weights and wraps them in sealed plastic sleeves, this is more convenient than waiting for staff to cut and wrap in paper. Also saves overtime as you can understaff the deli.
I’d like a deli app where you can order ahead and pickup once you’ve done the rest of your grocery shopping
I’d like a deli app where you can order ahead and pickup once you’ve done the rest of your grocery shopping
In one sense you are simply alluding to something that has existed already for about 20 years; 'online shopping'.
In another 'more real-time' sense, this idea will work well in those 'newfangled' supermarkets on the near horizon wherein as soon as you commit to buying something you are actually charged for it; in real time. In that situation you describe/state that you 'would like', they will charge you for it before they even prepare it/supply it to you. I think it is a good idea; as long as you can first see what you are committing to buying (at least unsliced/etc./in a general sense), then agree to being charged for it.
I see sooo many packages bought 'on a whim' from the deli in Coles/WW then unceremoniously dumped in some other refrigerated section in another random isle (sometimes not even afforded the dignity of refrigeration!). This clearly currently existing problem would certainly be compounded immensely by the type of system/arrangement you are suggesting; unless the purchaser is required to 'pay up front'.
Pre packing protects fresh produce in transit, leading to much lower wastage. It also reduces damage from handling in store.
Every kilo of fresh produce thrown out in store has used fuel transporting it from farm to store, was grown on a farm where chemicals were probably used and harvested using vehicles running on petrochemicals. One study I've seen found that every 100g of plastic packaging saves nearly a kilo of greenhouse gases, even before chemical runoff and on farm soul degradation, or land clearing to create new farms are taken into account.
Newdad makes numerous references to very specific examples here, but what he is clearly trying to do is alert the reactionary/insufficiently-informed/inappropriately righteous to the 'likelihood' (and I use that word politely) of the obvious reality, which is that they are bleating about things based simply on what they see; not what they know.
The difference is monumental, as anyone who is educated in any field, will tell you.
@GnarlyKnuckles: The 'cotton debate' raging in Australia at the moment (on the back of the river-water scandal; water-gate!!! LOL) is a reasonable/potentially relevant example. Deluded young pinkos will happily 'inform' me over a game of pool that 'mmmm-polymers in clothes are baaaiid… mmmm-Okay?'; but when I ask what they advocate instead, often the answer is some futuristic ideal that does not exist yet or it is something natural like cotton or wool. I ask them if they have any idea how much water it takes to produce a kg of cotton. Or what an approximation of the 'environmental resources' are that go into producing a kg of wool.
They invariably have no idea on either front, but they assure me that 'however much it is, it has to be better than the toll plastics are taking on the environment'. Admittedly I am para-phrasing/generalising somewhat, but not much at all I am sorry to report.
Of course it is a human right to go forth and 'be active' in whatever (non-violent) way/for whatever cause you see fit, but please do try and ensure that you educate yourself as best you can about the intricacies/facts pertaining to that cause before you assume that it is appropriate for you to attempt to change the opinions of others about it. Otherwise we are just reverting to the 'blind leading the blind'…
They werent remove, they were replaced with ones you have to pay for now.
Not even going to argue with that logic, as you have missed the point completely.
Yeah throw away the more durable ones in the landfill
puts Popcorn in microwave
Did the waxed bag come wrapped in plastic?
Yeah, but i threw it away in a paper bag…
Crisis averted.
Great deal . Yep a billion Chinese and Indians using plastic but we’ll save the planet using paper bags and straws.
Not much different to the computer recycling plants in Ghana & other 3rd world countries…
computer recycling plants
I've never seen a computer recycling plants! Fascinating 😂
Source?
That's such a cop out response. Let's just make the future generations deal with our bad habits, eh?
Smoking
Alcohol
Etc
Let's just make the future generations deal with our bad habits, eh?
Get over yourself.
When you stop being lazy.
So we can be leaders, not followers.
Other countries can look to the Australian example of going plastic-bag free.
Like with smoking.
Be a leader, my friend.
nah we live in a country with the "not in my backyard" mentality and "if it doesnt impact me I dont care"
why save the future when I'm not part of it
why invest in future infrastructure i just want it now
Australia is regularly referenced as a pathfinder and excellent example to follow in terms of a country quitting smoking, for example.
We showed the right way, eventually most others followed.
@King Tightarse: forearms and wyit smoking I have to say are two great examples of use leading the charge, early 90s though
we have gone down hill from there
look at government policies, all about giving tax refunds to everyone, reduce debt
we need infrastructure spend, policies for the future, better planning of housing not build first then worry about infrastructure, schools, health and shops
I think we are going to head for a recession but it's ok, interest rates at record lowers let's borrow to up, sure we might not have a job soon but its freeeeee moneeeeeyyyyyy
Nah, it's easier to just let someone else do the hard work.
But they don't end up in our waterways.
Stores in Australia banned plastic bags because that was costing them money to buy without generating revenue. They don't want to ban Plastic used in packaging because they don't want to loose the sale.
GET IT.
loose the extra o.
as for plastic bag users, short sighted cretins.
I wear contacts for that, plastic ones
I own a business that went through many, many thousands of free plastic bags every year. We started charging 10c per bag and committed to 100% of the money raised to go to Australian Seabird Rescue. We ended up selling so few that we made so little money in a year that I had to throw in hundreds of dollars of my own to give seabird rescue a $1000 donation.
People don't need plastic bags the majority of the time, they just take one because its just a tiny bit more convenient. We really can do without them most of the time. If you need one, just remember to bring one. Its not that hard. At the supermarket they can find you a reused cardboard box if you REALLY need to carry lots of products.
Cheaper elsewhere.
$35 you can get 2000pc (1box)
Delivered? I'll buy a few boxes to save the environment. Please provide link. Thanks.
yeah where??
Handy if your got a dog or two
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Negging deal as it's bad for our environment.
Look at the valid reasons for a neg. Being an preachy hippy isn't one of them.
You'd better go and burn some carbon getting to the source of the issue, then. Why are you slacktivising here?
"By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.
Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger."
"Just because they are doing it makes it ok for me to do it" -some false moral equivalency that you should try to avoid.
some false moral equivalency that you should try to avoid
What exactly gives you the right to preach to others what is or isn't moral and what they should or shouldn't do?
The arrogance of the Left is disgusting. Thankfully, it's what cost them the election.
Ah, politics. You're one of those people.
Someone living in a democratic country?
I forgot, the far Left also hates democracy, because democracy means freedom to not follow their agenda.
Why the use of quotation marks. Do you know what they mean?
That’s ok no hard feelings, although charging your device and running your modem burns a lot of coal.
Hope you don't have kids or pets… carbon footprint for those are huge.
Thanks I got 10.
Australian rivers are too dry to contribute.
Are these the same size with the old woollies Coles bags? I missed those, they are perfect for my bin.
Am i the only one who realises that plastic bags are still free in the fruit section?
Sure, there's no handles so you use twice as many, but eh.
Also, paper bags at the mushroom area if thats more your thing.
You can wrap the fruit they fly in from South America
i use them too. not for things like chips, but more for things that have the potential to leak e.g. some of those pre-packed fruit/salad bags, yoghurt, sushi, or those bakery containers that are slippery as hell and spill the contents if you drop them. those vegie bags help keep my car/esky cleaner.
How dreadful that someone is promoting single use plastic bags in this day & age!
An absolute discrace
exactly!.
a year ago, no problem.
but now!! OMG!!
How are these single use? You can reuse a few times as shopping bag, wet swim gear bag etc then finally as bin liners. I'd say more like multi use bags.
You can, but most people won't, hence the problem.
So why are there still plastic straws here in the Philippines they are doing away with them.
for the same price u can get 1000 bags on ebay. and thats with a 5 second search. might be cheaper if u look at others.
R.I.P. Paper - Long live paper!