WTF is this single use bylaw?? OMG the IDIOTS!!

[88CRX]

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Man, you should see how the Ukrainian ladies do it... My mom and Baba even in the 70's would use the brown paper grocery bags for garbage and then into the burning barrel when full. They would even use the empty milk carton opened up and stuff it full of garbage for the burning barrel because that waxed cardboard would light and burn hot for fire starting!

LOL

We had a cabinet full of empty margarine/ice cream/yogurt contains too... my mom still sends leftovers home with us in reused 'single use' plastic containers.

[Team_Mclaren]

I brought some plastic straws back from asia. Time to collect some plastic bags from oversea as well. Because, you know, I'm gonna limit their usage.

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LOL

We had a cabinet full of empty margarine/ice cream/yogurt contains too... my mom still sends leftovers home with us in reused 'single use' plastic containers.

you mom sounds asian

[finboy]

Write your councillor, I’m surprised Terry Wong signed on for this, can’t imagine Chinatown is happy to charge customers for 5+ bags, especially when the charge jumps to $2/bag in coming years (per max earlier in this thread)

[ThePenIsMightier]

Can we do some sort of a group buy?
And by that I mean, about a dozen of us send the councillors a big stack of pictures of our grundels?

[black300]

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Its remarkable because it actually encourages more waste. If that restaurant now puts your food into a paper bag that cost them less than one cent they can upcharge you 15 cents and blame it on the bylaw. Free profit and the city is the bad guy.

Idiotic law. If it was something where plastic cost money but paper was free it would make more logic sense but charging everyone only benefits the companies and does no good otherwise.

As a restaurant owner, I can tell you those bags do not cost one cent. The brown twisted handle bags are upwards of $0.50 each, we are losing $ on every bag we sell. It is pathetic, I used to buy the plastic ones and slip them through those are about $0.05 but the landlord won't allow that now because they are all on board as well. Customers are angry and yelling at the staff, which the staff has zero clue of what is actually going on.

[shakalaka]

They've had this bylaw in Edmonton for about 3-4 months now and it doesn't get any fucking better. Some stores charge upwards of 30C to 50C for their bigger bags.

Every time you go through a drive through and order a burger, fries and a drink, they ask, 'do you want a bag with that'? No bitch, just stuff the several lose fries right in my fucking mouth at the window. And they also ask if you want a straw with your drink, again, no fuckface I am just going to snort the pop out of this cup. The cups are also paper, I am surprised they haven't started asking if you want a fucking cup for your pop or just want us to put the tap straight to your mouth.

Fucking changing to disgusting cardboard straws that become soft and gross after 2 minutes of use was bad enough, and now they are fucking doing this shit on top of it all. I wonder what empirical evidence is out there in terms of how beneficial it actually is for the environment to begin with. Probably fuck all.

[ThePenIsMightier]

Guys, I think we're losing focus. There's a Tidal Emergency and if we all pitch in and do our part, we can stop the ocean from having tides.
We just have to want it. 8 billion insignificant humans can suck on enough paper straws to prevent tides. We can do this! Work together!

[muse017]

https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/...3-3-4-12-Kraft

just throw this out there, whoever saying retailers are making a killing off of those brown bags,..
it aint cheap and those prices doesn't include shipping

[vengie]

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https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/...3-3-4-12-Kraft

just throw this out there, whoever saying retailers are making a killing off of those brown bags,..
it aint cheap and those prices doesn't include shipping

Lol, thank you for proving my point on the profit margins on the bags.

By your link, a "2" bundle works out to $0.08 per bag before shipping.
They sell them for $0.50 or 400% margin.

More importantly U-Line is a distributor. You can get the bags way cheaper going direct.

[pheoxs]

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Guys, I think we're losing focus. There's a Tidal Emergency and if we all pitch in and do our part, we can stop the ocean from having tides.
We just have to want it. 8 billion insignificant humans can suck on enough paper straws to prevent tides. We can do this! Work together!

Hey kids were trying to stop the tides by eating all the tide pods but noooo the adults told them to stop.

[suntan]

Dude you were off by 800%.

[jwslam]

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https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/...3-3-4-12-Kraft

just throw this out there, whoever saying retailers are making a killing off of those brown bags,..
it aint cheap and those prices doesn't include shipping

Can someone find me the source to those not-paper not-plastic fabric-ky ones? I have no idea what to even call that material...

[tirebob]

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They've had this bylaw in Edmonton for about 3-4 months now and it doesn't get any fucking better. Some stores charge upwards of 30C to 50C for their bigger bags.

Every time you go through a drive through and order a burger, fries and a drink, they ask, 'do you want a bag with that'? No bitch, just stuff the several lose fries right in my fucking mouth at the window. And they also ask if you want a straw with your drink, again, no fuckface I am just going to snort the pop out of this cup. The cups are also paper, I am surprised they haven't started asking if you want a fucking cup for your pop or just want us to put the tap straight to your mouth.

Fucking changing to disgusting cardboard straws that become soft and gross after 2 minutes of use was bad enough, and now they are fucking doing this shit on top of it all. I wonder what empirical evidence is out there in terms of how beneficial it actually is for the environment to begin with. Probably fuck all.

Sounds like a lawyer needs to challenge this shit hmmmmmm haha!

[suntan]

I think it's challengeable on an accessibility basis.

[bjstare]

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Can someone find me the source to those not-paper not-plastic fabric-ky ones? I have no idea what to even call that material...

Still plastic.

[suntan]

Best part is they have no recycle code so into the garbage they go.

[bjstare]

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Best part is they have no recycle code so into the garbage they go.

I'm pretty indiscriminate with what I put in my blue bin. Most things that aren't compost go in there. The city just puts it all in shipping containers anyways.

[suntan]

My PILs got in trouble for putting styrofoam in their blue bin.

[KLCC]

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My PILs got in trouble for putting styrofoam in their blue bin.

You'll just have to be discreet about it, I threw cooking oil/5w-30 in there all the time. Recycle it back to the earth, where it came from

[Xtrema]

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My PILs got in trouble for putting styrofoam in their blue bin.

They have camera in trucks to monitor what get chucked? And the driver actually give a shit?