Council to Decide on Plastic Bags for Big Island

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Many years ago I had a temporary job as security at a courthouse. I had the unenviable job of looking through ladies (used loosely in many cases) purses. It was all to common to find that they had several pets riding in the purse. Now imagine a home where the homekeeper has roaches in her purse. Now imagine her kitchen. Now imagine the canvass bag (complete with sticky food spills etc.) and the pets that will be residing there, just waiting for the next field trip.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[Rob Tucker]

The Europeans got into and over all these topics concerning grocery bags thirty years ago. The Euro solution is not canvas bags or paper bags but mostly woven net bags which do not hold debris and mush up real tiny and small in a glove box, pocket or purse. Cheap, easy, clean and doable.

[Jon]

Well the ban on cannabis works well too...

let just ban grocery stores all together... I mean, they keep selling things we don't want them to...



Transplanted Texan

[oink]

OK, net bags sounds good. Where are they sold?

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[mikewj]

Here's a site offering a large variety of bags, including string and canvas. I've been taking my trusty cloth bag to Trader Joe for a fill up for a number of years now, and have noticed a marked reduction in the number of paper sacks I recycle. I also like string bags, but there is a tendency for small items to 'sneak out' through the mesh! (Don't you just hate it when the TJ 3 pack of chocolate doesn't make it home?)

http://www.ecobags.com/Our_Products/Canvas_Bags

[Kelena]

A friend of mine who was born in a trailer park in Eastern New Orleans to a couple of crackers converted to judaism after she married a jew from Montreal whom she has since divorced. She kept the religion and plays mah jong and goes temple. Anyway, the temple came up with this idea called ChicoBags (after the town where she lives). They large nylon (I think) bags that scrunch up really, really small and have a keychain. Very easy to take with you. When they were debating this, some didn't like the idea because they are made in China. But others thought it was a good idea. They went with it.

Then when I was in Pahoa Natural Foods I saw of all things, a ChicoBag! I bought mine there. It says Island Naturals or whatever the hell that place is on the bag. http://store.chicobag.com/

[Guest]

I hate it when I buy a really small product and I have to hack away at a plastic package that is tougher, more massive and durable than the actual product.

I told my wife the other day that I am going to throw that garbage away at the store when I get it.

Eventually I'd like to only accept packaging etc that I can compost.

[Jon]

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Originally posted by Glen

A friend of mine who was born in a trailer park in Eastern New Orleans to a couple of crackers converted to judaism after she married a jew from Montreal whom she has since divorced. She kept the religion and plays mah jong and goes temple. Anyway, the temple came up with this idea called ChicoBags (after the town where she lives). They large nylon (I think) bags that scrunch up really, really small and have a keychain. Very easy to take with you. When they were debating this, some didn't like the idea because they are made in China. But others thought it was a good idea. They went with it.

Then when I was in Pahoa Natural Foods I saw of all things, a ChicoBag! I bought mine there. It says Island Naturals or whatever the hell that place is on the bag. http://store.chicobag.com/

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crackers?



Transplanted Texan

[Kelena]

Yes, crackers. My blood is 100% Southern, and 100% cracker. Most people don't know what crackers are. Crackers are Scotch-Irish and they are what make the South different from the rest of the country (better in most ways and worse in others). The best book on the subject is by Professor McWhinney. It's called "Cracker Culture -- Celtic Ways in the Old South". It explains more clearly than any source why the South is different. We are celtic. Sure, there is a smattering of pale Englishman, but mostly Celtic, clannish, blood-is-thicker than water CELTIC. That's where the music came, that's where the relaxed attitude came from, that's where it all came from: Crackers. I'm proud to be a coal miner's great-great-grandson. And a cracker.

http://www.amazon.com/Cracker-Culture-Ce..._1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217003192&sr=8-1

[Jon]

I know what the term means, not a nice term at all... I guess that means I can use all the nasty terms I know, right? This should be fun...



Transplanted Texan