Comments on: The great Polish shopping bag scandal.

By: lhrcvsgdazk

lhrcvsgdazk — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:46:05 +0000

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:00:45 +0000

Unbelievable how well-written and inofmtraive this was.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:20:35 +0000

I have about eight or nine canvas bags from various grocery stores in my car (not a hybrid, sorry) ready for action. There’s a certain co-op that puts out a newsletter where Letters to the Editor by extremist tree-hugger-types were getting viscious over the fact that certain shoppers were seen using produce bags in the produce section, even though they had brought their own larger grocery bags to put the main groceries in. The subject of the smaller cellophane produce bags caused quite a lot of consternation for this crowd, and every time I shop there (they have all-organic produce and it’s really a great place other than it being fanatical) I look around cautiously, wondering if someone is going to turn me in to the plastic police. I am the type who walks up to the produce bags and pulls off five at a time, knowing I am going to buy at least five types of produce. I am for using alternate bags, though. If they made small netted bags for produce, I would buy those to reuse (I think they do have those, though I’ve never seen them).

Scatts, you can fold the canvas bag quite small and stuff it in the pocket of your Barbour jacket :-D.

By: daa

daa — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:47:34 +0000

Hey, I live in the UK now. And have to always remember which shops charge for plastic bags and which don`t – I have a big blue Ikea bag in my car in readiness – and don`t find it too strange to pay! When I go to Sainsbury`s, I know I need an Ikea bag with me, when I shop at Tesco`s, I don`t need to carry it! As simple as that. Get yourself something similar to save in the hard times. And if you think that anything is free abroad, let me just tell you that there has been some plans here to charge shoppers for parking at supermarket car parks – anytime.

By: Norman

Norman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:59:21 +0000

Scatts, I’m with You. All those “green idiots” won’t understand simple implication of Your points…
There’s no such thing as plastic bag problem. There is plastic problem and it lays elsewhere. But: more of 80% of people are unable to do proper math and logic (by saing “proper” i mean “enough to do understand statistics”). Plastic is in products, bags can be free and made of paper, it’s all about money and some people are so stupid, they are defending this thing and trully believe it will help our planet. Do Your scientiffic research and You will find what’s the real problem and how to solve it, morrons! You need to change the scale of organic chemistry industry perception, to understand how things work. And there’s no such thing as decay time. Only half-time decay, but those thing is not understood by most of folks out there… When You see in TV or in magazine words “decay time”, You should know it’s a brainwashing machine.
BTW: For all my thesis I have a proof – starting with “more than 80% of people…”, but i’ll do it in polish, if i have to, because i don’t know english enough to do scientific explanation. Yet ;]

P.S. Sorry for my poor english – i hope You will understand.

P.P.S. And yes, I know i’m being rude.

By: tee

tee — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:57:00 +0000

Simply carry your own, re-usable bags :) I guess it won’t make any harm if you’d have a few of them stored in your ca… hybrid, planet-saving mode of transport of course.

By: Bags « 20 east

Bags « 20 east — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:35 +0000

[...] a comment » I wrote at more length over on Polandian about my issues with being charged for shopping bags. So you can imagine how excited I was today [...]

By: Bartek

Bartek — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:23:27 +0000

Just look at what happens in Polish-language Internet. My country doesn’t fall behind… People can’t build a coherent sentence, fail to express their thoughts and make a few orthographic errors in one sentence in their native language.

After reading all those articles about “The English who don’t know well their mother tongues”, Poles, who have to dumb down their language to be understood and experiencing English classes with allegedly well-educated natives speakers (from US), who answered our vocabulary questions by saying “I don’t know this word” (examples I’m recalling now: travesty, inculcate, premonition, scrawny, venerable) or were totally unaware of the existence of such thing as British English, I haven’t got a clue where the world is heading…

By: Michael Dembinski

Michael Dembinski — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:05:43 +0000

“Histeria”. “Compaing”. “Anymore”. “Plactic”.
“Buyibg”. No spaces after commas.

Makes me realise that the UK has a far bigger problem than recycling shopping bags at hand – namely the education of its children.

By: Scatts

Scatts — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:32:16 +0000

Probably paper ones like Ikea have only free. Good for them!