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Environment & Energy

HarryM

(380 posts)

3. Funny, in Europe

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2024, 07:14 AM

Nov 2024

You generally have to bring your own bag. It's been this way for some time. If you want a bag, you have to pay for it. Here in the Netherlands, they are starting to charge for plastic containers for things like salads at the deli. Not to mention the bottle deposit is .15€ for small bottles and .25€ for larger bottles, no matter what they contain. Soda, juice, water, all get the same deposits on them.

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Banning free plastic bags for groceries resulted in customers purchasing more plastic bags, study finds [View all] littlemissmartypants Nov 2024 OP

You know, those brown paper bags worked just fine. Native Nov 2024 #1

I have been re-using the same sturdy cotton-bag for 10 years now. DetlefK Nov 2024 #2

Funny, in Europe HarryM Nov 2024 #3

If we did deposits we'd never see roadsides trashed with bottles. Callie1979 Nov 2024 #5

They may have banned plastic bags here in New York, but everything you buy at the grocery store comes in plastic! Rhiannon12866 Nov 2024 #4

I'm a cashier in an upscale grocery store in NJ. 2-1/2 years w/o plastic and paper. no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #6

my fave hdw store always has boxes. mopinko Nov 2024 #7

I don't see plastic as an option in Colorado--at least where I have spent time. Everyone brings own or pays for PAPER. hlthe2b Nov 2024 #8

One of the stores I frequent removed the freee thin plastic bags and replaced them with sturdier ones but mitch96 Nov 2024 #9

California is banning all plastic bags starting in 2016. hunter Nov 2024 #10