Green bags!! (2 Viewers)

[braindrainedAsh]

I work at coles and I HATE it when idiots want a bag for something small.... especially if they are carrying a hand bag or something that I can see it would easily fit in to.

Another category of people that annoy me are the ones that bring those wheelie shopping carts/sacks that they are obviously going to wheel all the way home, yet they want me to put their groceries in bags.... hello, you should just stack it straight in to the thing without bags!! What a waste!

Another, are people who bring green bags, get their groceries in plastic bags, and then put them INSIDE the green bags. WTF!

And the people who want EVERYTHING double bagged even though some of the bags are really light.

Also, the people who want massive things like 16-roll packs of toilet paper shoved in a plastic bag when it is quite apparent that they are just going to put their stuff in their car and take it home. The handles are almost useless on plastic bags when you shove a big thing in.

Also, some items have handles, such as the 30 packs of Coca Cola. Yet people want me to try and shove it in a bag for them.... WTF?

I think there needs to be more public education (or ridicule) of these people...... we will never solve this unless we either eliminate bags in supermarkets, and charge people money for the use of plastic bags. Green bags could just end up another pollutant as someone else said, they are made of plastic which takes just as long to biodegrade as plastic bags. The polymer used in green bags is a byproduct of petroleum production. Why don't they use something that will actually break down and is less harmful for the environment? Like calico? I'm sure they could make a bag that was equally as strong out of calico.

 

[Ranger Stacie]

Another, are people who bring green bags, get their groceries in plastic bags, and then put them INSIDE the green bags. WTF!

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arghh, my friends mum 'forgot' her green bags and left them in the boot, when she got to her car, she proceeded to take all of her grocieries out of the plastic bags and into the green bag..ahah..what the fuck?

 

[my sharona]

jeeesus fucking christ yourself
just commenting, how long do you think people are going to be using these green bags? not long. when they stop being used they will be harder to recycle then plastic bags. anyway, how many people do you know have 15 hundred green bags yet always forget them when they go grocery shopping, so end up using plastic bags anyway?

I don't know if they'll be harder to recycle than plastic bags, but green bags are 100% biodegradable, whereas most plastic bags just end up in landfill.

Even if it's harder to recycle, you get more uses out of it.

The black Myer one is good. It's gonna be my uni bag for the next two weeks.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Green bags are not 100% biodegradable as far as I know.... I thought they were made of regular plastic basically. I have heard it will be possible to recycle them when they get damaged, but I'm sure I read somewhere that they took just as long to break down as regular plastic bags, it's just that they can be reused multiple times.

Could be wrong though.... anyone got any facts on this?

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Some info I found:

http://www.planetark.com/campaignspage.cfm/newsid/61/newsDate/7/story.htm#11

As far as I understand the green bags are not biodegradable, however companies are trying to develop biodegradable grocery bags (that will be similar to your normal plastic bags).

 

[my sharona]

Ash to the rescue!!

My bad, sorry.

 

[glycerine]

I'm neutral. Although I can see the benefits of having them, they used to piss me off something extreme when customers would announce they had green bags (or worse, the calico ones ...) once you'd finished packing all their groceries into plastic bags.

agreed. i just shoot them a dirty and send them on their way.

i used to be a big advocate of customers bringing their own bags but the longer i've been a checkout chick the more i've discovered that it's easier to pack plastic ones. therefore i don't give a shit about what's biodegradable and what's not - to me its all about restricting the amount of work i have to do.

 

[OZGIRL86]

They were in the Fashion section/pull out bit of the SMH the other day.. I would be more vague but I thought to add in some info (jk thats all I remembered)

i ended up seeing them in myer the other day, i was going to buy a couple but got distracted and forgot

 

[jebbie]

i ended up seeing them in myer the other day, i was going to buy a couple but got distracted and forgot

They look so hot though! I've been meaning to get some for a while now I must try to remember to do it.

 

[angelduck]

i like em, dont break as easily as plastic

 

[OZGIRL86]

They look so hot though! I've been meaning to get some for a while now I must try to remember to do it.

yeah they do, next time i'll try to remember

 

[lei]

agreed. i just shoot them a dirty and send them on their way.

i used to be a big advocate of customers bringing their own bags but the longer i've been a checkout chick the more i've discovered that it's easier to pack plastic ones. therefore i don't give a shit about what's biodegradable and what's not - to me its all about restricting the amount of work i have to do.

Ahh this is so true.. I used to really respect people who made an effort to bring them through my register but now when i see a huge trolley and about 8 bags ready to have items shoved in them I practically have to hold back a moan and a roll of my eyes

 

[soha]

i have my likes and dislikes when it comes to green bags

 

[tractor_chic]

the myer ones were in cleo and i was gonna get one but i thought they would b bigger but they were pretty small in real life, i still mite get one though i like the wayne cooper one.

i work in supermarket and i dont judge ppl on whether they get a plastic bag or use green bags, but i do ask, cuz sumtimes u assume that somebody would want a plastic bag, so u put in a bag and they take it out of the plastic and throw the bag on the ground, and that pisses me off cuz its not like it gets recycled, it might go in the red bin otherwise we just leave it on the ground 4 ppl 2 walk ova til the boss tells sumone 2 pick it up and chuck it out.

*tip if a checkout assistant hands u plastic bag and u didnt want one tell them and hand it back 2 them that way it will get reused.

i dont like packing the green bags cuz u neva know how heavy ppl want it packed so u ask them and they give u this look like im sum sort of idiot who does know how 2 pack a bag and then lata yell at u 4 packing it either 2 heavy or 2 light!

*tip if u have a green bag pack it urself or dont whinge when the checkout assistant hands it 2 u not packed perfectly the way u like it!

n e way soz i had 2 get that out in the open afta a long shift 2day

thanks 4 listerning if u could b bothered 2 read all that

 

[jebbie]

I bought the pink one at Myer today. Haha sorry I felt so good for remembering I had to share..