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1. Zettour (zettour@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:47:46 JST Zettour
   Lmao
   • Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:47:43 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     • teknomunk
     @teknomunk @Zettour first off:
     
     >Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) and New Jersey state legislators touted a new law banning plastic and paper shopping bags at stores when they enacted it in 2020.
     
     Why ban paper bags?
     
     As for the rest: it would have been more effective to force everyone to use paper bags rather than let them have re-usable, heavy weight plastic bags that they don't re-use and apparently just use once or twice. I don't know why (niggers/diversity?). I still have heavy duty bags from some years ago I re-use..
     
     unless I forget them and then I pay a 5 cent bag fee for the cheapo single use bags.
   • Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:47:43 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     • Lichelord Godfrey
     • teknomunk

     @teknomunk @Zettour or they could have just not done anything I guess. 🤷

     Machismo repeated this.
   • Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:47:45 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     @Zettour why would you ban the re-usable ones? I thought they wanted to ban the one time use ones that don't last.

     ??

   • teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:47:45 JST teknomunk

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     • Lichelord Godfrey
     @lichelordgodfrey @Zettour
     
     Looks like a typo: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2024/01/22/new-jersey-bag-ban-followed-by-increased-use-of-plastic/?sh=471651e6a855
   • CatSoc :nv: (catlord@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:48:07 JST CatSoc :nv:

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     • Lichelord Godfrey
     • teknomunk
     @lichelordgodfrey @teknomunk @Zettour You know what they did in Aus?
     
     Checkout clerks used to pack your shopping in plastic bags. Then they brought in new plastic ones that are supposedly better for environment or whatever but the customer had to pay like 15c per bag. Then they replaced the plastic bags with paper bags that you had to pay 25c for. Then they reduced the size of the paper bag.
     
     So instead of getting your groceries packed in a paper bag, on the house, like 100 years ago or some shit, you're charged 25c for each bag. That's effectively all that's changed. What a fucking scam.
     
     They're (Woolworths) also making a big deal about how they're not going to fly Australian flags on Australia day, and will be doing some abo gay shit instead.
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:48:20 JST Machismo

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     • CatSoc :nv:
     • Lichelord Godfrey
     • teknomunk
     @CatLord @Zettour @teknomunk @lichelordgodfrey To be fair, relying on store bags was always a bad move.
     I bring my panniers in with me and just load straight into them.
   • CatSoc :nv: (catlord@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:50:13 JST CatSoc :nv:

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     • Machismo
     • Lichelord Godfrey
     • teknomunk
     @Zerglingman @teknomunk @Zettour @lichelordgodfrey I don't rely on them but they shouldn't charge for them. It's gouging. Both of the national supermarkets can afford to give free paper bags to their customers.
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:50:42 JST Machismo

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     • CatSoc :nv:
     • Lichelord Godfrey
     • teknomunk
     @CatLord @lichelordgodfrey @Zettour @teknomunk Oh yeah both the supermarkets are giga faggots, I have been avoiding them as a default rule for most of my life.