Green environmental bags at check out lines at Wall mart?

Question

When you check out at wall mart or other grocery stors now you have these green plastic bags they wont you to use. They say it is recyled plastic an is supposed to clean up an save our environment. Now if you look at the bottom of the bag it says made in China. Whose enviroment are we really cleaning up?

Answer 1

they keep your friut and veggies from going bad so soon by keeping the oxidant gas from the fruit in the fruit. but you can get the smae results by putting your stuff in a brown paper bad and then in a much cheaper plain old ziploc bag. the green bags are a ripoff.

Answer 2

Sounds like the Chinese environment. Most things are made in China due to cheap labour.

Answer 3

I don't recycle, and I wont.  Did till that moron Gore came along, now I don't fool with it.

Now as to your question,  we are cleaning up OURS.

The reason I say this is simple, China is buying every scrap of paper, and plastic that we can give them.  There is a whole industry that does nothing but gather, bundles and ship containers to china that are filled with old pizza boxes, news papers and plastic water bottles, toys etc.   So while they were made there, they started here.  I have been to China, they do not throw away trash the recycle everything.

Answer 4

Sounds about right. Everything in Walmart seems to be made in China. I do not hop at Walmart out of principle. Their business practices are atrocious.

Answer 5

Well, technically, everyone's. While I would agree that ones made here would be better for the environment because of how the shipping affects the carbon footprint, assuming their old bags were made in China, then at least it is making somewhat of a difference.

I shop very seldom at Wal-Mart because of a lot of reasons - I disagree with many of their business philosophies, and find them a pretty unpleasant company  (I do occasionally experience the late night homework emergency -being a college student, and have to bite the bullet for a burnt out bulb for my lightbox or a last minute art supply).  However, I do support any steps they take to "green" their practices. After all, Wal-Mart isn't going away.  And people in China have just as much of a right to a clean environment as we do.  

When it's something that can affect the global atmosphere, we should be just as concerned about environmentally abusive practices in other countries as we are about ones here.  Besides - are you aware of the massive amounts of computer and electronic equipment the U.S. ships to China and other countries for "disposal" (which often equates to hazardous job conditions for natives as they bust all this equipment up).. in order to keep our environment "clean"?

Answer 6

no they are actually black canvas bags that u can buy for about 10 dollars and they want u to reuse the bags instead of coming and getting sacks every time have enough canvas bags to reuse. u obviously don't shop at wal mart. and china or no china the environment is a global issue not just a united states one.

Answer 7

Not just Walmart but most of our supermarkets sell a sturdy canvas bag that is reused for years, cost about a dollar.

Several of our big chains pay one to carry out the purchase in those bags... it is about 5 cents each time we use the bag. This costs them less than the 3 plastic bags they replace. Other deeper discount stores have no plastic bags unless you pay 5 cents for them, so some people just take the plastic bag back several times.

I am willing to see a Canadian or American firm get into the business of supplying these bags. But I am not eager to pay 3 times as much for local manufacture.