every person would have easy access, free, to reusable bags.

over time, and since I buy in bulk, how many I will need, and since I reuse my plastic bags for garbage, what will I use now?

What does being single have to do with it?

Not seeing the connection to bags and singleness though.

be exactly like anyone else in their care and sterilization of them.

Personally, I don't look forward to seeing people putting their reused cloth bags on the the check out counters after they become mandatory, and well used over time.

Being single/married isn't really related to that IMHO.

Here's a tip (from someone who has worked in the grocery business) there are a lot more cleanliness issues to be worried about than someone's reused bag. Especially if you buy in bulk.

case of canned chili and 24 individual cans of it?

You brought it up.


"and since I buy in bulk, "

need on those days when I might buy a huge amount of groceries, and I do that at random times, and I always buy groceries on the way home from somewhere, not usually as a planned event.

You brought up buying in bulk not being sanitary. ""Here's a tip (from someone who has worked in the grocery business) there are a lot more cleanliness issues to be worried about than someone's reused bag. Especially if you buy in bulk.""

Why would buying 24 or 48 cans of chili, or soup, be less sanitary than buying them one at a time?

I thought you meant this:


What you want are these European style grocery bags. Woven plastic. Easy to clean. Very strong and can hold a LOT of stuff. You can easily fit a case of chili in it with room to spare.



We have been using them for well over a decade and they are still going strong. We can fit the equivalent of about 4 or 5 disposable bags of stuff in one of them. Got three of them under the front seat of my car right now.

Bonus: since ours came from France, there are four convenient interior pockets for wine!

utilize them in many ways, after we had to quit using paper bags.

I don't want to be tied to having to keep 20 bags in my vehicle all the time, waiting for one of those random days when I do my shopping, and I dread the accumulation of bacteria they will attract, I already consider the shopping cart and grocery shopping as one of my dirtiest activities.

I agree with you. I haven't bought trash can liners in 20 + years. I have a small trash can that fits under the sink. I started doing this because I don't like having a trash can sitting out in the kitchen.

I have some reusable tote bags for when I shop at my favorite warehouse grocery.