Subj : more cannabis stores than needed
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Wed May 10 2023 13:26:34

> I'd like to see an inexpensive hemp-based shopping bag that I
> can provide at checkout.
> I had no choice but to order more plastic ones. The average
> price per bag (including shipping) is $0.08 to $0.10
> I've never charged my customers a bag-fee, but I just might
> have to now.

Ouch. In Richmond, here, it's illegal to provide plastic bags at checkout free  or for-fee.

Supposedly to reduce plastic in landfills. but now I need to buy garbage bags,  that come wrapped in plastic that I need to throw away inside one of these  black plastic trash bags.

I re-used plastic bags i got for free or for 5c at least once -- as a garbage  bag -- perfect size for tossing garbage down an apartment's trash chute (must  be tied into a bag to use the chute)

Sometimes I even re-used them for shopping, instead of buying a bag. . .

Occasionally as packing material when mailing a package.

The real problem of single-use plastics, as I intend to present to my city  council, with visual aids (one week's worth for a family of 4), is in packaging crap with too much -- sometimes I must fight through 3+ layers of plastic to  get the item I paid for.  All food is in plastic.  Now we can return milk jugs  for a 20c deposit for recycling, so that's a reasonable step.

I didn't like paying 5c for a bag either -- I just dropped $40 on your store's  wares, & you can't include a 5c bag for free?!

Only one store did it right; Kin's Farm Markets gave free bags, but if you used your own, they donated 5c to an eco charity.

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