Since the City of Toronto started requiring retailers to charge five cents for each plastic bag, a number of retailers (Metrominion, Loblaw's, possibly Shopper's but I'm not certain) have been providing larger plastic bags. This means I'm taking fewer plastic bags home. But, regardless of how big the bags are, I still empty my kitchen garbage every day because I'm not about to leave food garbage sitting around overnight. So the total number of plastic bags being used as garbage bags is the same, but the number incoming is reduced.
I have a stash of LCBO plastic bags. I started hoarding them when the LCBO started phasing them out, because they are without question the best plastic bags. I'm coming perilously close to having to break into that stash. I just put my last non-LCBO bag in the garbage can now, and it goes down the chute tomorrow. I'm probably going to get three plastic bags with my errands tomorrow and maybe one at the market on Thursday, which leaves me out of non-LCBO bags by the end of the week. Which means I either use LCBO bags for garbage, or buy garbage bags. Both of those contain significantly more plastic than regular pre-five-cent-levy plastic grocery bags.
If they had listened to me in the first place, we wouldn't be having this problem.
6 comments:
I just use small transparent bags.
Having organics recycling in your building would go a long way here. We use our kitchen garbage bag much longer now, til it's completely full. The food waste goes in the green bin, which gets changed every day (or every other day if we eat dinner out).
In Toronto it wouldn't make a difference, because we're under specific instructions to wrap our organic waste in plastic bags. Some people say this makes the green bin program less effective, but I'm not going to argue because it makes me feel safer.
Oh wow, we're not allowed to use plastic bags - if you do, they won't take your green bin. We use these special permeable bags that look like plastic but biodegrade.
Also, since we started using fabric bags for shopping, we have to buy kitchen garbage bags for the first time ever. And we buy biodegradeable dog-poop bags. We used to just use the store bags.
I don't like it, but our net plastic bag useage has gone way down, whereas yours has not.
And if they'd listen to me and use biodegradable bags in stores, everyone's behaviour would be exactly the same as yours without any effort.
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