{"id":737,"date":"2005-04-04T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2005\/04\/04\/plastic-bags\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T20:54:00","slug":"plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2005\/04\/04\/plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently gotten into the World Changing<\/a> website a bit. This article<\/a> about taxes on plastic bags to reduce waste is interesting. It mentions taxing plastic bags to reduce waste. This may be a good idea, but there are also consumer\/industry policy changes that could work alongside or instead of such legislation. Simply asking customers if they have their own bag would before bagging groceries would eliminate the scenario where I am talking to the cashier and it’s too late to tell the baggers that I’m using my own bag. Usually the line is busy and I don’t want to hold things up to have them unbag or rebag the the groceries. I’ve also actually seen baggers throw away unused bags when I tell them that I don’t want them. Also, changing the age-old question of “paper or plastic?” to “paper, plastic, or no bag?” would remind consumers that there are other options for carying their groceries and might encourage some to use a less wasteful alternative. I submitted this idea to Kroger via a web form and I’m interested to see how they comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently gotten into the World Changing website a bit. This article about taxes on plastic bags to reduce waste is interesting. It mentions taxing plastic bags to reduce waste. This may be a good idea, but there are also consumer\/industry policy changes that could work alongside or instead of such legislation. Simply asking customers… Continue reading plastic bags<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-bT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}