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Post by oldhalfelf on Mar 19, 2023 10:32:33 GMT -5
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Post by ermindy1133 on Mar 19, 2023 10:43:16 GMT -5
This should have been fully implemented years ago. Covid really impacted this in many ways, I think. For a very long stretch of time, our local stores and markets wouldn’t allow customers to bring in their own bags. I suppose they feared that someone would bring Covid into the store on a bag from home? 🙄 Now that the world has regained some version normal, it’s time to get back on track. I think that Disney will probably still keep the plastic bags on hand for those customers who request them, but as reusable bags become the norm, they should be handing out far fewer disposable ones. Most of my purchases just go in the backpack, so… |
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Post by donalddork on Mar 19, 2023 10:56:39 GMT -5
I would rather have the choice of using a plastic bag OR a reusable bag, even if it added 10 or 20 cents to the total (for a plastic bag); that's one way to incentivize people to switch to reusable bags. Of course, why not just use paper? It will eventually compost itself.
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Post by brp on Mar 19, 2023 11:00:43 GMT -5
great move. Completely phasing out plastics is a step in the right direction. Throw-away water bottles will be harder, but one can hope.
Cheers.
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Post by johnb on Mar 19, 2023 11:07:39 GMT -5
Easy to manage with smaller purchases since so many people use some kind of bag or backpack in the parks. And they could help with larger purchases by resuming delivery of park purchases to resorts.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Mar 19, 2023 12:51:09 GMT -5
There have been many times we have been in the parks and saw something at a store and said, oh look at that cute thing, let's get it! Well then they don't (or didn't, for a while) have bags, do you want to buy our strangely-sized reusable bags? Well.......
So then it became, "Oh look at this thing! Let's get it! But remember, they don't have bags, so we will come back and get it at the end of the day" because neither of us carries a backpack or anything while at the parks. So we all know what happens at the end of the day...75% chance you say, Ah let's not worry about it.
So here's what it is: We are presented with a problem - Let's get rid of plastic. This is great, okay. For Disney this is great, too, because they don't have to buy pallets full of bags, saving them money.
So, often a bag is still needed. Some people carry bags - I bring the aforementioned oddly-sized Disney reusable bags to the grocery store. But I don't necessarily want to carry them around the parks. I could use a backpack or something...but I'm not there yet.
They could give little inexpensive paper bags, like was mentioned; something the size of a fast-food bag would probably hold most things. But this doesn't solve Disney's problem: Not buying bags.
We have to admit, that for certain members of the corporate culture, the real problem is the purchasing of bags, and "saving the turtles" is a convenient way to solve that problem.
Back to those reusable bags - why are they so weirdly shaped? Some might notice that the normal plastic bags Disney gave were oddly sized, too. They must have some number crunching going on, making bags to fit certain percentiles of their merchandise. But the bags aren't a good size when it comes time to bring them to the grocery store.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Mar 19, 2023 13:03:12 GMT -5
great move. Completely phasing out plastics is a step in the right direction. Throw-away water bottles will be harder, but one can hope. Cheers. I drink tap water, no bottles purchased here. I go to a certain in-laws house, and there are Costco-sized packages of plastic bottled water all over the garage. Not only that, they are the inconveniently-small (in my mind) 500ml size. So it's plastic bottle central over there. And a good portion of that doesn't make it into the recycle bin. And if it does, half the time that recycle bin gets dumped into the trash can, but this is another problem. I was watching a tv show set in Germany, and I noticed they were always drinking beer - or so I thought, turns out it was just cola or water, but in old-fashioned glass bottles. So I wondered if they only used glass bottles. I did some research, it doesn't look like it, but I did see articles referencing the success of Germany's recycling program, in fact they stated that of a certain type of non-reusable bottle, only 2-3% of them DIDN'T get recycled and they saw that as a problem. I think they basically put a deposit on everything that is recyclable. I'd like it if there weren't plastic water bottles. Disney could sell soda and things in paper cups like at a fast-food place. Like the olden days. You know, like George Washington and stuff, they didn't have plastic pop bottles when they went to lunch at Liberty Tree. |
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Post by brp on Mar 19, 2023 15:09:42 GMT -5
great move. Completely phasing out plastics is a step in the right direction. Throw-away water bottles will be harder, but one can hope. Cheers. I drink tap water, no bottles purchased here. Same here. We just bring reusable (Nalgene) water bottles and simply fill when empty. There are many places to do so.
Cheers.
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Post by simbasmom on Mar 19, 2023 16:40:58 GMT -5
I thought this was due to happen a few years ago, and I'm not sure why it didn't happen (what's Covid got to do with it?) Already got my reusable bags, bought them then, so now they're probably worth something on Ebay. But since I wouldn't sell them, I'm glad that I'll finally get to use them.
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Post by helenabear on Mar 19, 2023 18:39:56 GMT -5
I thought this was due to happen a few years ago, and I'm not sure why it didn't happen (what's Covid got to do with it?) Already got my reusable bags, bought them then, so now they're probably worth something on Ebay. But since I wouldn't sell them, I'm glad that I'll finally get to use them. Covid actually made our grocery stores prohibit the use of reusable bags weirdly enough. I think risks of spread was the reason. www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/08/plastic-bag-bans-reversed-coronavirus-reusable-bags-covid-19/2967950001/We don't often buy a lot of stuff and no issues buying a reusable bag if we do. |
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Post by brp on Mar 19, 2023 19:10:07 GMT -5
I thought this was due to happen a few years ago, and I'm not sure why it didn't happen (what's Covid got to do with it?) Already got my reusable bags, bought them then, so now they're probably worth something on Ebay. But since I wouldn't sell them, I'm glad that I'll finally get to use them. Covid actually made our grocery stores prohibit the use of reusable bags weirdly enough. I think risks of spread was the reason. www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/08/plastic-bag-bans-reversed-coronavirus-reusable-bags-covid-19/2967950001/We don't often buy a lot of stuff and no issues buying a reusable bag if we do. Ours did, too. This was back when folks mistakenly thought that Covid could be spread by surface contact. Even pack-yourself bags. This continued, in some places, even after this transmission vector was shown to be incorrect. Eventually they figured it out.
Some places didn't notice/care when we brought in our own anyway.
Cheers.
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Post by hatfieldhlt on Mar 19, 2023 20:15:38 GMT -5
Easy to manage with smaller purchases since so many people use some kind of bag or backpack in the parks. And they could help with larger purchases by resuming delivery of park purchases to resorts. This. I really miss either resort or front of the park delivery options. I hope the option comes back soon. It has caused me to request more bags than I had in the past. My lone exception was getting a small replacement bag when the one I stored my rain poncho in wore out after a few trips. |
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Post by helenabear on Mar 20, 2023 6:34:59 GMT -5
Ours did, too. This was back when folks mistakenly thought that Covid could be spread by surface contact. Even pack-yourself bags. This continued, in some places, even after this transmission vector was shown to be incorrect. Eventually they figured it out. Some places didn't notice/care when we brought in our own anyway.
Cheers. Ours was pretty strict on it. We started doing grocery delivery anyway. We at least had paper bags as an option. Still do. Just no more plastic. Though we bring our own bags. The Disney bags are excellent for groceries though. |
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Post by bakerworld on Mar 20, 2023 7:37:20 GMT -5
We have tons of reusable bags stored in the car because for a while every store was giving them away or companies handed them out during Earth Day. I have so many that I have given them to the kids. I just WISH I could remember to bring them into the stores. Consequently we still have a ton of the store bags, which I reuse for garbage/trash bags.
Castaway does not provide a bag. A bag can be purchased for $1. I did purchase one because I needed an extra bag and I share the reusable with my SIL.
We buy a case of bottle water a month because my son takes them to work. My daughter, who works in the same place, takes a refillable bottle but she works in the office where he works in the warehouse. Interesting to me was when we went to Europe last May the hotels provided bottle water in GLASS. This made me very nervous. I kept fearing I would knock it over and cut myself on it. My daughter had no problem at all using the glass bottled water but she did thing it was wasteful as they couldn't be resealed.
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Post by Beansprout on Mar 20, 2023 7:42:28 GMT -5
Here in Maine we eliminated free bags in April 2020. But then Covid happened so it was put on hold for a year. My cars are well stocked with reusable bags but because I don’t shop often that’s usually where they stay. I either have to run out to my car before paying or buy more bags. We just spent two months in Florida where there is no law on bags. Now that I’m home I need to remember the rules. I did notice a lot of white plastic bags clinging to tree branches down south. We don’t see that often up here so the bag rule is working.
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