Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for February 16, 2016

Is that really Elliott in the first panel?

QOTD: Here in Ca we’ve done away with plastic bags and the stores charge a dime each for the paper ones. Our best bet is to buy reusable cloth ones.

I’m in CA, too…

Paper bags just aren’t made as sturdy as they used to be….I’m sure that’s to save trees…. cough… not money…. right?

Whatever it is, they tend to tear before I get them home.

So I usually got plastic bags, before the ban, but I often reused them…and I saved them all for a year when I heard they’d be outlawed.

Now I carry a few in my purse, and re-use them until they shred.

That isn’t creating any extra plastic waste.But now a lot of the stores sell heavy duty “reusable” plastic bags for a dime anyway… which generates more waste than the old bags did, if people don’t actually reuse them. (I do)

I also have cloth and other re-usable bags, but the problem is that I forget them in my car.

My feeling is, though, that what we need isn’t more bans but better technology…plastics that more easily break down, either into compost or constituent fibers….and more facilities that can re-manufacture or compost them.

plastic..i give most to my daughter to use in her yard sales, and return the rest to store to recycle.

I rather use cloth re-useable but its hard to remember them when you need them!

Back to his usual self I see.

We keep cloth bags in the car and use them. If I’m trying not to spend too much money picking up impulse items I’ll take a bag and not get a cart. When the bag is full, that’s it.

Wegmans recycles just about everything. They have signs saying “this is made from recycled milk bottles” and “this is made from plastic grocery sacks”.

I have reusable bags.

There is no ban on plastic bags here in Idaho but we always take our own. Last time we were in Southern California, we bought a bunch of re-usable bags from Stater Brothers. They are sturdy and pretty and last a long time. We just got ourselves in the habit of always remembering them.

We have a reusable grocery bag full of reusable grocery bags hanging on a hook near the door. Always handy when you need them, if you remember them.There are some items that we never put in a reusable bag. Meat and other items that are susceptible to leaking. Reusable bags tested positive for E. coli, salmonella and coliform bacteria, according to studies by Loma Linda University and the University of Arizona.Make sure you wash them regularly.

Reusable cloth bags. Unless I forget them, in which case plastic, since that’s all they have around here.

Anyone carry your books, and did you make such an offer?

Nope, nope; well okay, there may have been a rare occasion…

2nd QOTD : Never had the opportunity rode my bike and the girl I liked took the bus.

“And BTW, I have to use trash bags that the city provides.” Do you have to pay for those? Just curious.

“I’m not a soldier, dad. Please don’t order me.”

JPuzz… if you see this so late….

But do you still have to pay for service?In one place I know, you can either pay about $30 a month for weekly pick-up, and they bring you a rolling can, plus yard waste and recycle cans… or just buy special bags at City Hall, and leave them out by the street.The $2.50 or so apiece that they cost covers pick-up…. If you don’t have much garbage, that’s way cheaper than monthly service…. except they don’t pick up the other stuff…and for the 80-year-old lady who lives there, lifting and dragging a bag is much harder than rolling a can.

“Paper or plastic,” TONY? REALLY? I thought you were a cartoonist, not a grocery clerk. Geez, Man, you sure had us fooled all these years! ;-D