Reusable bags for supermarket uncooked meat

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#3100462 6-Jul-2023 08:18

Aucklandjafa: Never ever heard of people putting their plastic-wrapped meat in another plastic bag. I’ve always, come checkout, just put meat with non-perishable things, so if there’s leakage you can just wipe it off the cans, milk bottles etc.

Supermarkets in 2023 should be packing raw meat in sealed trays….

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#3100463 6-Jul-2023 08:25

Geektastic:
Aucklandjafa: Never ever heard of people putting their plastic-wrapped meat in another plastic bag. I’ve always, come checkout, just put meat with non-perishable things, so if there’s leakage you can just wipe it off the cans, milk bottles etc.

Supermarkets in 2023 should be packing raw meat in sealed trays….

100% they should, but there’s always the odd time it fails - that doesn’t mean you should be chucking it in a plastic bag

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#3100512 6-Jul-2023 11:25

rugrat:

With weight based stuff, does it get weighed outside bag, on exposed surface and possibly hand handled, or do you have to be careful bag brought is not to heavy, as will be paying for weight of bag.

When shops were supplying bag, they know bag weight so can program scales to deduct.

Bag weighs ~50g if its the cotton mesh and ~10g for the synthetic mesh.

I just pull the stalks off my apples and brush the dirt off my spuds before weighing to compensate 🤡

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#3100524 6-Jul-2023 11:52

Aucklandjafa:
Geektastic:

Supermarkets in 2023 should be packing raw meat in sealed trays….

100% they should, but there’s always the odd time it fails - that doesn’t mean you should be chucking it in a plastic bag

I disagree - I put it in the plastic bag because of the odd time it fails.

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#3100540 6-Jul-2023 12:39

Journeyman:

I disagree - I put it in the plastic bag because of the odd time it fails.

I don't think your position is unreasonable - nobody likes raw meat juice getting spread around. We do need something less-wasteful than single use plastic bags to accomplish this going forward.

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#3100790 6-Jul-2023 23:12

Aucklandjafa: Never ever heard of people putting their plastic-wrapped meat in another plastic bag. I’ve always, come checkout, just put meat with non-perishable things, so if there’s leakage you can just wipe it off the cans, milk bottles etc.

Local PaknSav had a spindle roll of tougher plastic bags adjacent to the meat section.
If you had a gander at the drip tray underneath the meat section, you may change your mind about not separating out the meats from your grocery. It's the bit that you don't see, and doesn't get wiped...

Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid about keeping meats well away from other groceries, a dose of listeria or campo engenders extra caution

My thoughts are no longer my own and is probably representative of our media-controlled government

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#3100835 7-Jul-2023 07:45

Aucklandjafa:
100% they should, but there’s always the odd time it fails - that doesn’t mean you should be chucking it in a plastic bag

Exactly - and just because one in every million car trips you're going to have a crash, it doesn't mean you need to waste plastic by fitting seatbelts to every car

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#3101115 8-Jul-2023 00:01

With the fresh food in the supermarket it's the best food and there actually is a better way where instead of prepack everything's bulk deli style counter and they can supply you what you want in wax paper or similar then you place it into your storage for meats.

The ugly truth is they should if they're serious start by removing all the plastic out of the main section of the stores which contain 99 percent of the plastic volume.

Toothbrushes, dishwash bottles, shampoo containers, frozen ice cream, biscuit, bread bags, milk containers, perishables like cheese, yoghurts are all single use plastic, spaghetti, confectionery, cosmetics, pet food satchels, etc, etc. If they remove all those plastics then deal with the relatively tiny amount in the healthy fresh food section.

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#3101119 8-Jul-2023 00:14

If they genuinely want to replace the vast majority of plastics, supermarkets need to become refill stations where you bring your old container back and refill it from a bulk source. Having a vat with a manufacturer logo probably isn't as sexy as having shelf space with every single item covered with your logo and branding - I suspect it's doing to take a lot of push from consumers and regulation from government to force companies to give up the marketing from their current (highly-inefficient) system of product packaging.

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#3101120 8-Jul-2023 00:28

Exactly. Supermarkets essentially need to cease to exist and we move to a fresh food market and small shops like butchers, bakers, fruit and vege, etc. Supermarkets are full of impulse purchase products all individually wrapped in plastic. A lot of product that's things like plastic bbq lighters when matches were all that existed 30 or so years ago. Tons of product that we actually don't need like wet wipes.

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