FOXeMilwaukee's Blog

I can see good in both...
Plastic bags can be used for a dirty disposable diaper....

Paper make great book covers for back to school...

I heard once from someone that you should beware of the brown bags due to cockroaches breeding in them. Whether or not that's true--I wouldn't want to risk it.

But I will say that at Walmart they give you too many plastic bags. They put only 2-3 things in each bag and spin the little spinner for you to catch it. I find that I can buy 20 things and end up with 10 bags.

I use the plastic ones for doggie bags - we even use the newspaper ones. I mainly get them from others for donations. I usually get paper bags. I use them for yard waste (why pay to advertise by buying them at Home Depot or Ace Hardware) I also use paper when baking cookies. I put the cookies on the paper bag to cool. Then a lot of the grease is off the cookie and onto the paper bag!

Plastic Bags all the way for me. After I do my shopping from Walmart or Walgreens, I use them for bagging old newspapers, plastic, and aluminum cans in order to carry them to the recycling bin. And for my wastebasket in my bathroom and picking up pet waste before cutting the grass. Furthermore, I store up new plastic bags to be used for other duties around the house.

the ONLY positive I see in plastic bags is when it comes to frozen foods. Sometimes the paper bags rip from the moisture.

I work at a grocery store. We have some customers who bring canvas bags, which work great, except they get heavy. My store wants to to bag in plastic when possible, so they just got rid of most of our paper bags, including the ones with handles. Now people want us to bag paper inside plastic so they have handles. Now we end up using 2 bags for every one before. We still have standard paper bags, but they really want us to use plastic because they are cheaper. I find ways to reuse them at home, and occasionally drop off extras at places that take them for recycling (Walmarts)

By the way folks, you are not entitled to pick up an extra paper bag to take home with no groceries in. We have to pay for them too...so if you want extra, we will charge you for them.

I prefer plastic because I reuse them. They're great for small trash liners, scooping up cat poo, and I use them for lunch bags. Paper is bulky, and tears too easily.

I used to like Randall's grocery store here - they not only gave you paper or plastic, but cardboard boxes as well (you had to pay extra). We always reused those.

However, I keep the plastic bags around to use them as lunch bags or bathroom garbages, etc. I don't have any major preference - as long as you reuse them, does it matter? Wal-Mart has boxes to recollect the plastic bags at the store.