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submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

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[-] Numpty@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember that grocery store only had paper bags, and replaced them with plastic bags because we were using too much paper and it was killing all the trees.

Now we're back to paper bags...

[-] TheBaldFox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

That was a lie. I worked in groceries back in the 90s and the store owner said that the paper sacks cost him 5 cents and the plastic bags were less than 1 cent each... So stop handing out paper unless people ask for it!

[-] Numpty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I did not know that. I was a kid in the 1970s/80s when the change came to the part of Canada I grew up in... and I remember it as a "too many trees chopped down" thing. Did some digging and... damn...

[-] TheBaldFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, greenwashing is a huge thing. Most everything corporations do for "the environment" is bullshit used to place the problems on the individual consumers and not the actual perpetrators. Companies only care about that money.

[-] Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

That was a marketing campaign by the petrochem industry to get plastic bags into stores, and it worked.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

BRING BACK PAPER! I have textbooks to cover with doodles on brown paper.

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