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Apple to Phase Out Plastic Bags for Environmentally Friendly Paper Bags Starting April 15
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at least around here (sf bay area) target switched *away* from paper bags to plastic drawstring bags... really weird, since the paper bags had to have been way more environmentally friendly from a recycling standpoint. i don't think you can recycle the plastic bags...
Yeah, wait till something leaks and the bottom falls out of your bag or the rain reduces your purchase to rubble. Then tell me what a great idea it is.
This is GREAT news!! I always prefer paper bags to plastic for groceries and otherwise.
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Or just hang it to it with both hands if you're that clumsy.
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Or just hang it to it with both hands if you're that clumsy.
Plastic bags actually are better. The link you provided makes the case against paper.
You probably meant to say "paper bags are not..."
Both materials generate waste, human existence generates waste. Reusing things is the best possible solution.
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I live near a pulp mill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper
When the wind changes, trust me, that stink isn't pretty nor environmentally friendly. I always decline to use paper bags.
Yeah...hang with both hands. I'm assuming you never had experience ripped paper bag before, right?
Caring about the environment is pandering to the "liberal progressive base"? Give me a break. This mindset is pathetic.
They may want to cut the size of the Apple Watch bags by about 2/3 while they're at it if they're worrying about the environment. Just a thought.
1st thought: nNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!!
2nd thought: Oh great, now tons of people are going to buy and sell them on eBay.
3rd thought: Steve would NEVER had allowed this (requirement)
4th thought: Well I never threw any of those bags away so the way I see it, the plastic bags were more environmentally friendly!
2nd thought: Oh great, now tons of people are going to buy and sell them on eBay.
3rd thought: Steve would NEVER had allowed this (requirement)
4th thought: Well I never threw any of those bags away so the way I see it, the plastic bags were more environmentally friendly!
I'm glad they're taking care of this instead of their line of prehistoric computers.
Gotta have priorities.
Gotta have priorities.
For all the supposed reusability of plastic bags, does anyone really re-use them for something that they can be reused for again?
I store all my bags for reuse and the plastic ones get filled with food waste, dog poop and miscellaneous trash, even Apple bags. Paper bags are for giving anything that I want to give a human being that I thought more of than putting an onion or dog poop in. And through a long story I have dozens of reusable shopping bags in my cabinet and anyone I think we possibly re-use one gets one.
Maybe it's a public perception, history, etc, but a nice paper bag gets saved in a presentable manner and reused for the most part while a plastic bag gets shoved in a bin or hamper for trash.
I store all my bags for reuse and the plastic ones get filled with food waste, dog poop and miscellaneous trash, even Apple bags. Paper bags are for giving anything that I want to give a human being that I thought more of than putting an onion or dog poop in. And through a long story I have dozens of reusable shopping bags in my cabinet and anyone I think we possibly re-use one gets one.
Maybe it's a public perception, history, etc, but a nice paper bag gets saved in a presentable manner and reused for the most part while a plastic bag gets shoved in a bin or hamper for trash.
Right now I usually choose paper when asked yet never had that happen yet.
But it's ok to disagree Larry.
The biggest issue with bags is the ease in which the unintentionally get into the environment. I can dispose of it properly aand it goes flying off a trash truck, a gust of wind picks it up out of a waste bin, etc.
One of the largest issues with plastic bags is them getting into waterways though. The concern isn;t biodegradation IN the landfill. Not completely anyway. FWIW paper will have similar difficulty (not the same, but it will takea very long time for a paper bag to degrade in such conditions as well; sure they can be recyscled, unlike biodgradable plastic).
My question was a bit rhetorical. One of the biggest reasons is cost. Second, the colors aren;t as attractive, and you cant do as much with them in those regards. Apple couldn't likely make a bag the way they make it currently using bidegradable plastics if they wanted to.
I don't think you know what biodegradable means
The amount of people that give a **** about RAM upgrades is low.
The amount of people that actually upgrade RAM is even lower.
The amount of people that like to complain on the internet about nonsense is infinite
Not disagreeing with you, however this is no different from how we have been handling laptop cpus and gpus since... forever. I've always taken Apple's environmentally friendl stance with a basket of salt. They could be worse, but they could be a lot better too...
If it's small, put it under your coat. If it's big, use a box. Market basket around here asks everyone if they want paper, plastic, or boxes. The boxes are simply what all of teir produict is shipped in (kind of like how costco does it). You can also always bring a large reusable bag if you are going tos hop in the rain. Better yet, keep one in the car. We do!
A few very minor lifestyle changes can remove a plastic bag from sitting in a landfill for 1000 years. There are already cities (where it rains) that have banned plastic alltogether.
