Some of us are forgetful!!

JUST GET THE SINGLE USE BAGS.

They are much better for the environment. You can even reuse them. The reusable ones use much more plastic hence are much worse if you don't regularly reuse them.

Cloth bags are even worse. But very nice.

I live in a US state that's banned plastic bags. It is always funny seeing people from other states being shocked that there isn't any plastic.

You want forgetful? My gf and I keep a whole bag of bags in the trunk of our car. Every single time we go shopping, we forget to grab them, buy one in the store, and then add it to the bags in the trunk. It's a viscous cycle.

I don't understand how you people can go outside without a bag, let alone an extra bag inside it. How can you just go places with no inventory slots???

I don't use any bags anymore if i can help it. I just load them into my trunk and use a little crate with wheels and a handle on it to bring groceries inside. The crate never leaves my home, so I can't forget it.

If you’re driving, just load it into your cart, then load it into your car, then load it into your bag, and take it inside. If you’re taking a bike or the bus, I’m sorry about your 37 reusable bags.

**The occasional plastic carrier bag is fine **

A single-use plastic bag: the sin of any environmentalist. Many of us know the agonising pain of turning up at the supermarket, then realising you’ve left your reusable shopping bags at home. The next 10 minutes is a comedy show, seeing how many items you can stuff into your pockets, clutch in your arms, and even grip between your teeth. You will not let the team down by asking for a plastic bag. I do the same. Even though I know better: the data shows us that the occasional plastic carrier bag is not that big a deal. In fact, in many ways, a single-use plastic bag is better than some alternatives. At least when it comes to the carbon footprint, it’s much lower than the rest. You’d need to use a paper bag several times, and a cotton one tens to hundreds of times to ‘break even’ with the plastic carrier.35, 36 This is also true for other environmental impacts such as water use, acidification, and the pollution of water with nutrients such as nitrogen. This doesn’t mean you should switch back to using single-use carrier bags: it just means you should make sure you’re reusing the other types of bags a lot. If you’re buying a new organic tote bag every second visit, you’re really making things worse. And as seen in previous chapters, you should be focusing much more on what you put in the bag than the bag itself. It will have a much bigger environmental impact. The problem with plastic bags, then, is that they can pollute our waterways. But, like any other form of waste, only if we don’t manage it properly. In rich countries, unless you’re littering near a river or coastline, they’re probably not going to end up in the ocean. Even sending it to landfill is not a big deal. This is a problem in low- to middle-income countries where the use of plastic bags is on the rise but the infrastructure to deal with the waste is not. That’s where tight rules on single-use plastic bags, and the availability of alternatives, really make a difference. So, be conscious of how much you’re using. Take a rucksack or a sturdy bag and reuse it again and again. But you don’t need to stress out if you reach the supermarket till and realise you’ve left it at home.

"Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet" by Hannah Ritchie

I'm still hacked off that the bag fee was created only as a punishment for single use plastic bags, then once plastic bags were phased out the cunts kept it in and raised the cost with different tiers of biodegradable, reusable and woven bags.

I just use an old cardboard box.

I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.

Keep the bags, or at least a few, in your car.

Curse of ADHD.

Only way I’ve found around it is to throw a few bags right back in the car after unloading.

Get a foldable bag that you can stuff in your main carryon (purse, backpack, etc) in the event you forget

It's a good backup. Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it

Speaking of forgetful, don't forget to run those bags through the wash every now and then.

Those things will harbor some nasty bacteria if you let them.

Always fold mine and put them next to my shoes. Then next time I leave the house, I put the bags in my car 🙂

Just use a backpack smh

Keep one in your back seat at all times, keep another in your trunk, then remember to bring one every time you go to the store. If you forget, you have the one in the back seat, just put a new one there later. If you forget to do that, you got the trunk backup, just replace that later.

Wanna get real fun? Keep all of your reusable bags in the trunk.

People still use bags? I don't have a car but I go on public transit with my cart and I haven't used bags in forever and even if I did have a car I wouldn't use them because I would just load them directly into my car. Tbh there's not a lot of uses for bags imo. They just seem like it's all extra baggage... Ha..

this could be a case where you should consider having groceries delivered to your home.

Even in spite of best efforts for good systems to remember mine, I still forget them often. The problem in the US is that the system is not complete. The bags need to be made of biodegradable and/or recyclable materials, and every store needs a convenient way to turn in old bags so they can go into a recycling system. There probably shouldn't be a charge for them either.

Hopefully this is just a meme because if you actually do this it's more wasteful than just using a disposable bag once and bringing your reusable ones next time.