Vancouver market hands out embarrassing plastic bags to customers to encourage recycling

[mahatmakanejeeves]

John Aravosis 🇺🇸 Retweeted

😂 "This Vancouver market is handing out embarrassing plastic bags to customers" (so they remember to bring reusable ones next time)

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2019/06/04/embarrassing-plastic-bags-vancouver-market/ …

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[Maraya1969]

1. It is really easy to remember your bags if you keep them in the front seat next to your handbag

Or stick a little postet next to you in the car. Quickly you will become used to carrying your own bags into the store.

[demigoddess]

3. I have a couple of brown paper bags in among my reusable bags and

the baggers always use them first. ??? And I have the reusable bags inside another slightly bigger reusable bag and the baggers usually pull them all out and when finished hand me back a messy stack of the bags instead of the bag with some bags in it. first thing we need to do is educate the baggers!!

[murielm99]

4. We must go to very different types of stores.

The checkout people in my grocery store get happy when they see me or anyone else with reusable bags.

I remember when one of them said, "It is my turn to check her out. I like her bags." She said that it was fun to figure out how to pack things in my bags. It broke the monotony, too.

[EllieBC]

2. It's kind of turning into people wanting to collect them.

People here are oddly excited about them.

[luvtheGWN]

5. Those bags are hilarious!

I can see them becoming collector items!

I must say that here in southern Ontario, I very rarely ever see grocery store shoppers without their own bags. And in smaller shops where people buy one or two items, usually they say "Don't bother with a bag", or else the clerk says "Do you need a bag?" So it's all catching on, thank goodness, except in clothing stores......

[Mr.Bill]

6. One of our local grocery stores

deducts ten cents off your bill for each bag you bring.

[lillypaddle]

7. When I worked at Planned Parenthood

I always carried my stuff around in freebie shopping bags with advertisements featuring condoms and vaginal cream, like monistat. Never bothered me. Actually, I was kind of proud.