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   > 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.   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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