Reusable bags are a big scam.

yeap! Or I try - but I don't let it get in the way of life - sort of. It should slowly integrate with your lifestyle - not take over it. I have a reusable bag that I use for groceries and what-not. And whenever the store have paper bags, I make sure I ask that they use them as well to line my reusable bag with. In California, stores with paper bags are rare. I have accumulated TONS of plastic bags from the past that I use to line any garbage can in the house - including bathrooms, etc. I don't have a dog - so I don't need it for that. And plus, most dog-friendly parks here in Cali have doggy poo bags. Go ahead and "get" plastic bags from grocery stores when you go grocery shopping, if you must. After all, you are reusing it. And that's just as green as using a "reusable" bag. Good luck!

I have cloth reusable bags and I LOVE them! I actually need to find a few more. (I refuse to pay for them. I always wait until someone is handing them out!) I love that I can put way more in them without them breaking. I love that I can choose my size of bag - I have a couple different sizes. I love that I dont have to put my meat in a seperate plastic bag just to put it in a plastic bag! I put the package straight into my cloth bag. If the cloth bag gets dirty, I just wash it! I use my cloth bags for groceries, library books, my crocheting. Just about everything! Admittedly, I do have to buy some garbage bags for my trash can. But I dont need many of them! All of my organic waste gets composted. All of the paper, plastic, glass and aluminum gets recycled. We dont use much of anything that is disposable! It means that you dont produce a lot of trash, so you dont need a lot of trash bags! The paper bags were definitely better than the crappy plastic ones. But I still think that cloth is best!

I think I've seen the plasticized bags, which are kind of stupid, in my opinion. I thought the idea was to get way from plastic? I use cloth bags now and then, depending on where I go, but we're still getting regular plastic bags here, so I'm saving all I can for when they stop making them next year or when they start charging for them. I have four small trash cans in my home and I use those bags in all of them. It doesn't make sense to take away our free plastic bags, then we have to buy them for trash... or maybe it does. As much plastic as is in the world, zeroing in on plastic shopping bags tells me there's more to it than we're being told... maybe like money for trash bag manufacturers?

I have several canvas shopping bags I use, that I have had for a number of years, and I used them many times, so I'm sure I prevented several pounds of plastic from being put into landfills. I do confess I still use plastic for garbage and I'm not too sure what you mean by "plasticized reusable bags" - Are they truly reusable or do they fall apart after a number of uses? Can't paper bags be used for dog excretment? No, if I had a dog, I wouldn't use my canvas bag

There are actually several stores in our area, grocery stores at least, that offer plastic or recycled paper bags. I trade off depending on which I need that week so as not to have to purchase just to add to the trash.

yeh i just hope global warming isnt a big scam as well....

It does seem ironic doesn't it? Here we think we're helping the environment by going green and getting the reusable bags, which I have as well, but then one still needs the plastic bags to line the garbage bin..and paper bags wouldn't do so well since they can leak with some of the type of garbage is thrown out. I try to do a happy medium...I'll still accept the plastic grocery bags but use them for my garbage so at least I'm not buying separate bags

Hi ya bonbon664 Well here in the UK we have gone the other way. Years ago we used to have to pay for our grocery bags and now they are free with our shopping. In all my born years I have never known supermarkets here to ever use paper bags though may have done once. There is a shop that still sells their bags to their customers. There are a couple of supermarkets here that even give you loyalty points if you use your own bags! Since they have done this though I have noticed that the quality of their bags has deteriated. Sometimes I have so many plastic bags that I have to take them to the charity shops to be used again, which is not a bad thing!

I buy one of those bags made out of woven material or something. But I hardly use it. Here in my country, the govt. slowly making use using shopping bags and less plastic bags. So for the time being, plastic bags are still available. I don't know for how long. Until then, I don't need to get plastic bags for trash and such. I don't know how they are going to make everyone get a shopping bag since it's a bit costly around here.

well, here in Spain, long time ago paper bags were massively used, then when the plastic bag appeared, everywhere they used that kind of bags...from time to time shops try to "concern" us about using these reusable bags, telling that are green, and will degradate fast. A lie, just checked how easily they break, you can't put as much weight as in normal plastic bags. I agree that returning to the paper bags would be more healthy. Nowadays there is a great technology to recycle paper and other cellulosic products into very strong paper, that allows to carry more weight than in plastic bags...also, companies stamp their logos there... that means that we (at least in spain) pay for publishing them, free costs for the companies...that's terrible, and people don't realize much about this matter. Sad thing.