How come in Australia we have plastic bags to carry our groceries & in America they have paper bags?

Question

How come in Australia we have plastic bags to carry our groceries & in America they have paper bags?

Answer 1

We have the CHEAPEST Plastic bags here in America where the stuff they put in it, practically falls out of it through rips in the plastic. I miss the days of paper bags, now they don't even ask.

Answer 2

Paper bags are getting hard to find anywhere due to the shortage of trees to make the pulp.

Answer 3

In Australia, we like having handles to help carry our groceries. And while paper bags are more environmentally conscientious, we also have the 'green option' - reuseable canvas bags that you can take with you when you go shopping.

Answer 4

Plastic bags are easier to carry stuff in, like colds and that if put in a paper bag they get wet and fall through. But, thats going to change soon. I dont use plastic bags anymore and buy the shopping cloth bags.

Answer 5

actually we have both

Answer 6

In the uk wew have plastic. Most are bio-degradable and go weak really quickly-you're lucky if they last the trip home-they rip and tear easily, and disintergrate after a while, which is fair enough except that the government want the supermarkets to start charging for them, so that people will use less-which is ludicrus, as they are ALREADY environmentally freindly, so what's the problem?! ~I don't get it!

Answer 7

Most of the grocery stores in America use plastic bags, now.  However, many do offer a choice.  The first question a cashier or bag boy will ask you, when you come up to the register, is, "Paper or plastic?" to ask what your preference is.

Answer 8

I have not been offered a paper bag for my groceries for years. Once upon a time you could use the cardboard boxes that supermarkets had available from unpacking their stock but even the box isn't around anymore.

The only place I have get a paper bag is at the butchers.

I am in South Australia