you are exactly right!
While I agree with your sentiments, I will point out that Canada has been cracking down on the use of plastic for a number of years, and this move by Walmart Canada is just one of many efforts right across our country. Most of our take out food is now in cardboard containers, and this coming week the City of Toronto's recycling trucks will be picking up thousands of yard waste paper bags, which will go to city owned vacant land, to be turned into compost. NEXT summer that compost will be dumped in city parks and the residents will be able to go and fill containers with composted materials, and use them on their gardens for free. We don't allow the burning of leaves in the fall any more, so in the fall the city trucks pick up tons of leaves that go to become compost, which is later returned to the residents as composted material. The Beer Store accepts the plastic rings from beer cans, as well as the cardboard beer cases. Apartment buildings here have compacting machines which produce bales of cardboard which are sold to recycling companies for money. JimB.
Many do, many don’t. We sure aren’t perfect. The best bags I ever purchased were in the US many many years ago.
The reusable bags that we have here are actually made FROM recycled plastic pop bottles in a woven material. The ones that my Wife and I have are more than 5 years old and we use them weekly, year round. They are durable and we simply keep them in the trunk of our car, so they are available . They are machine washable. The cost of one is 99 cents. Do you have a problem with a company making a profit on a item that they sell ? Remember that recycling in Canada is a matter of daily life, with national regulations that enforce compliance. JimB.
As an alternative you could buy paper bags that will fit your small trash can. Remember when supermarkets used paper bags ? I do. JimB.
Not at all, so long as the profit is not made on the back of misleading environmental claims. If everyone used their bags as responsibly as you do then I think this would work. Not sure most will, probably not in the US anyway.
Some ours still do, or offer the option anyway. I like paper better than plastic, but again I am not sure what the net environmental impact is. I feel better about using paper bags to start fires in my wood stove, plastic might work, but I don't do that.
Walmart has long sold reusable bags here, but not many, can't say as I have ever seen anyone using one.
Here Walmart uses plastic.
I remember my mother using paper bags for garbage. And I remember them leaking, smelling, and breaking, leaving garbage all over the floor. And having to wash the outside trash cans because of leaking garbage which smelled and attracted maggots. Give me plastic trash bags anytime. I wish there were a better way, because I'm concerned about plastic ruining the environment also.
I wondered about this too. Walmart here has already gone to no plastic bags. It doesn’t seem too popular to use the pick up service. (Translate that as I rarely use it so don’t think others do either). Perhaps they‘ll bring out the bins and you’ll be expected to load the goods into your bags in the car.
Those things, in particular, are a curse
Good question.
