Interesting, does NY still have single use plastic bags? California totally banned plastic bags.
On Monday, September 15, 2014 2:49:41 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote: > > Yeah in NY they aren't available as an option even. Just local stores > still have them, no big grocery store. > On Sep 15, 2014 5:48 PM, "Bill Lindsay" <tape...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> In California there are still paper grocery bags, you just pay 10 cents >> for them. If I forget my reusable bags, I pay 10 cents a bag and recycle >> the paper when the bag is no longer useful. Is it different where you >> live? >> >> One thing in the article that is kind of cool is the free angle. A >> sponsor provides them to stores for free, and they are free to people who >> want to use them, and they just print advertising stuff on them. That's a >> win-win, provided somebody wants to pay for creative advertising. I doubt >> anybody is going to get filthy rich on the idea, but maybe it's one more >> way to make it even more cool to use one's bike in the eyes of the general >> public. Baby steps >> >> On Monday, September 15, 2014 2:24:38 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote: >>> >>> I think its a great idea but grocery stores left paper bags behind a >>> while ago. IMO it would be a hard sell to ask them to stock these for the >>> once in a while occurrence where someone on a bike forgets their panniers. >>> its a subset of a subset market, very small. >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Ron Mc <bulld...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm with Bill in that it's a brilliant option compared to none. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, September 15, 2014 4:07:19 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:56:57 AM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> First we were killing the planet with paper bags, then because we >>>>>> used plastic, but now it's good to buy cardboard panniers if we're >>>>>> biking >>>>>> to the grocer without our real panniers? I don't get it. >>>>>> >>>>>> With abandon, >>>>>> Patrick >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Deacon >>>>> >>>>> I don't get what you don't get. If somebody needs to carry some stuff >>>>> on their bike, and the store has a commodious solution that is cheap, >>>>> effective and made from and of recyclable materials, there's not a whole >>>>> lot to not get. It's not the best solution to carrying stuff on your >>>>> bike, >>>>> but it's the nicest sub $5 solution I've seen lately. :-) >>>>> >>>>> Bill >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
