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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago

Have You Started To Not-Use Plastic-Paper Bags At SuperMarkets?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Not yet ! I put cat litter in them!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. I Have Not-Used Plastic-Paper Bags In A-While! haha!

  • 5 years ago

    I think you might be a bit out of date. Yes, the US used to brown-bag all the shopping some years ago, and you can still see this in old films, but this was when the cheapest material for bags was brown paper made from wood-pulp, almost a by-product of the extensive logging that provided the timber to build most of the American infrastructure. Nowadays the US is short of home-grown timber, and also wood-pulp is more expensive because it is now used for other things besides paper, such as chip-board, insulation-board, fibre-board etc. So, recycled materials are the choice for brown paper now, to keep costs down, but, believe it or not, recycled materials are dearer than wood-pulp used to be. The cheapest material by far, as in other economies, is plastic, derived from petro-chemicals, which is why the US, like us, only rarely supplies brown bags nowadays . Hope this helps.

  • Kim P
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I have used cloth shopping bags for about 3 years now. I don't use the plastic ones.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have made a personal commitment to always use plastic bags, buy a Navigator and only drink water from plastic bottles

  • 1 decade ago

    We've been using cloth for about 3 years now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Most of the time. But i do sometimes go with re-useable bags.

  • Pico
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I just take what they give me. It's usually plastic.

  • 1 decade ago

    I prefer paper so easier to recycle.

  • 1 decade ago

    I use cloth bags.

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