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Blueplanet

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19. Yes

Reply to frazzled (Reply #15)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 05:53 PM

Mar 2020

It is good to have thermal bags for hot and cold items. The bags are inexpensive. Use one bag for cold items and another for items that can take the heat; be it take out or something else you want to keep warm.

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Lift the Ban on Plastic Bags [View all] Blueplanet Mar 2020 OP

My city has banned the plastic grocery bags leftieNanner Mar 2020 #1

Oh my! Blueplanet Mar 2020 #5

Reusable hands? Cartoonist Mar 2020 #9

Can't use reusable bags here. It's like the old days, they're back to supplying free paper bags. n/t thesquanderer Mar 2020 #13

Good to hear Blueplanet Mar 2020 #16

How about paper? nt delisen Mar 2020 #2

That just happened to me at Safeway ... put my bag on the conveyor like I always do ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #3

The virus lives on plastic a lot longer than things like cloth and paper. meadowlander Mar 2020 #4

We should be bagging our own groceries. uppityperson Mar 2020 #6

Bagging our own groceries Blueplanet Mar 2020 #10

I usually bag my own anyway frazzled Mar 2020 #15

Yes Blueplanet Mar 2020 #19

COVID virus can survive on plastic for SEVEN DAYS. We toss them away and wipe ourselves all secondwind Mar 2020 #7

Understood Blueplanet Mar 2020 #11

My supermarket used to be a plastic bag collection center, not they refuse to accept them back. TheBlackAdder Mar 2020 #8

NYS has already pushed back the compliance date on our one-use bag ban until some time in June... Princess Turandot Mar 2020 #12

Thank you Princess Turandot!! Blueplanet Mar 2020 #14

Our grocery stores do not allow recycle bags SharonClark Mar 2020 #17

Oh my! Blueplanet Mar 2020 #18