[seanmccann]

Which is funny because at most Canadian grocery stores they don't even offer or have paper bags. At least in Alberta.

[derefr]

What would be the point of offering paper bags, when they can instead sell you their high-margin reusable cloth bags (which are common in Canadian grocery stores)?

[seanmccann]

To provide a convenience to customers that didn't bring a reusable bag and don't want to spend a few bucks on a bag they'll never use again and has an environmental impact 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than a single use paper or plastic bag.

[derefr]

This:

> and has an environmental impact 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than a single use paper or plastic bag

presumes this:

> a bag they'll never use again

...right?

Which seems strange to me, given that people will really only buy the bag if they are planning to use it multiple times.

Measuring it as if it were a single-use bag, would be a bit like measuring the environmental impact of solar panels + batteries, as if they never generated any power (and thus never displaced any grid consumption of "spiky load" coal plants et al) and only existed as a cost of initial chemical construction.

[miohtama]

Here in Gibraltar plastic bags have been banned for a while. You can buy more expensive reusable bags at the grocery store counter.

First it was pain. But it took only few months to adapt and now everyone are bringing bags to the store with then.

Fruit and veggie sections have paper bags, but also those sections offer canvas bags for the eco aware.

[monadic2]

I’d presume that’s the cause of this legislation.