Just buy reusable mesh bags and stop wasting plastic to protect your produce for a 20 minute car ride.
Why is this so hard
Submitted 10 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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FireRetardant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s no way I’m getting to my car when opening a bag is this hard
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
“Joke about the inability to open a car because the inability to open a little bag”
;-)
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“just put the fruit in the cart” gang represent
Dicska@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just dump all the loose blueberries into it.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right? Just gonna wash it anyway
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The “waste” is negligible; doing some napkin math, a 20 minute car ride accounts for 300 times higher carbon footprint than a plastic produce bag (can elaborate if you want). A reused mesh bag is going to be less hygienic and less convenient, and factoring in the higher footprint of production and distribution (produce bags come in packs of 3500) you would need to get a lot of reuse out of it to even be worth it. Considering impact of disposal, as long as you live somewhere that has sane waste disposal and doesn’t empty their trash into the ocean it’s not going to be significant either.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
People need to get some perspective on plastic waste. I’ve seen no end of complaints about how my 3d printing hobby is responsible for climate change… In my country, we produce >200 kg of plastic per capita. My 1kg spool of vegetable-derived plastic is not causing the oceans to acidify.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s less about the carbon and more about the fact that it doesn’t degrade. It’s plastic pollution.
tdawg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
everything that helps helps
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We still reuse the plastic bags around here… so, not a total waste I guess.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not all of those bags are the same.
The produce bag rolls at most stores around me are compostable now. They are also breathable and will keep the produce fresh longer when left in the bag.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Compostable means they can be recycled, which isn’t as good as reusing, which isn’t as good as reducing.
Reduce>Reuse>Recycle
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Best part is I can carry 2-3 fully loaded reusable bags vs 12 flimsy plastic ones that split and overflow.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
in sweden we have paper bags that are then used for food waste recycling at home.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
All you do is put the top between the palms of your hands and rub them together like you’ve just come up with an evil plan and they pop open.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
bonus points if you actually come up with an evil plan while you’re doing it
_number8_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
simply use the moisture from the sprayers
Duranie@literature.cafe 10 months ago
I’ve touched sprayed produce before just for the grip. 🥴
aulin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The what now? I haven’t seen those since the early '90s.
I_LOVE_VEKOMA_SLC@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re still in use everywhere I’ve shopped
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least the bags say “OPEN HERE”. We’d be fucked if they said “OPEN IN ZIMBABWE” or something like that.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure, I might have just figured out Steven Wright’s Lemmy account.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Excuse me? That was a George Carlin joke I stole.
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ll try for five minutes and find out it opens on the other end.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I do this with dog poop bags, it’s so frustrating!
MudMan@kbin.social 10 months ago
I use ones that are explicitly labelled with a black strip. My tactic for opening them is to put them between my lips and blow, which works pretty well but got really weird during the mandatory masking periods.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The best days are when you successful open one … and realize it wasn’t sealed at the bottom either
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Oderus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I touch the moist sprayers to wet my fingers enough and the opening of the bag is always the part that’s already detached.
Those two types help.
ma11en@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’d think that!
Seraph@kbin.social 10 months ago
That's what she said.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Clap the whole bag between your hands and rub them together like a scheming villain
Kase@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a person with eternally sweaty palms, this right here is my superpower. (⌐■-■)
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I go to the broccolis and touch the usually wet crate first.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you listen closely you can hear him whisper words of wisdom such as: “I’ve tried both ends five times now!”, “I think this one must be defective!”, or my personal favorite “I don’t think these are the same brand they had out last week!”
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like me plugging in a USB stick.
ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
USB plugs are actually a great at-home demonstration of quantum mechanics. The USB plug exists in a quantum superposition of alignment - being simultaneously correctly aligned and not aligned until being inserted. Once insertion is attempted, the wave function collapses to a random alignment.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Damn… I thought I was the only one that noticed they switched the plastic bag brand.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They usually have the good green ones, but then sometimes they have the clear ones that are harder to open
NBJack@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Breath on your fingers like you’re trying to fog up glass. Immediately open by running your fingers in opposite directions along the edge, using the additional friction you created.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 months ago
Please don’t breathe your germs onto my vegetables
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well I hope you’re going to wash them anyway. There’s already a bunch more worse shit than a bit of breath condensation from a guy standing a few feet away breathing onto his hands.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Keep my vegetables out your fucking mouth.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Instructions unclear, bag is stuck in my glasses
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Highlight of my life was shortly after I broke my arm, someone saw me struggling with one of these one-handed and opened it for me like the damn lockpicking lawyer. I’ve considered taking my sling with me shopping ever since, in case I need another good Samaritan to open one of these godforsaken bags again
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It takes three times longer to open a dog poop bag when you are out in the cold and can’t even feel your damn finger tips.
variants@possumpat.io 10 months ago
I make my dog help since he’s a habitual licker
JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Just lick your fingers first! The grocery store sells food products, it and its patrons have to be hygienic …
/s
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I just tap the tips of my finger to my tongue for a bit of moisture and they open right up.
runswithjedi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
Or just ask anybody to lick your fingers.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
But at that point I’ve already wandered the whole store and have touched any number of things that could have been manhandled by all the other finger-licking, unmasked hand-sneezing, butt-scratching, non-hand-washing straw men in the grocery store. One of those dudes is a septic tank cleaner, and he doesn’t wear gloves because he says he’s allergic! And soap burns when it gets into all the oozing sores on his hands.
There’s no way I’m licking my fingers until I’ve washed them or at least forgotten about my pus-leaking, poop-handed caricature!
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you really think that way or are you just making a joke? Seems we humans went from making fun of Semmelweis to absolute germaphobes. Does no one get biology education anymore? Or is it more a failure to examine risk realistically? Freaks me out how fearful people are now days.
Always washed my hands regularly. Even as a toddler, I remember getting sticky ice cream on my hands and hating it. But I’m not manic about it, don’t give a shit worrying about bacteria/viruses/fungi/prions/whatever. (Unless I’ve been into something obviously rotten. Ask me about the fungus I found at camp today. Not touching that with a 10’ frog.)
Only time I really think about what I’m doing is after shooting or gunsmithing. Lots of nasty shit, above and beyond lead, you don’t want to ingest. Because heavy metals are for life. Bacteria? I’ll quote the retards from the pandemic, “i HaVe aN IMMunE sYsteM!”
LOVE your writing BTW! I should trawl your comments. (NM, just did. You’re smart and express yourself perfectly. We should be friends. Your damned skin cancer post got me thinking about the tiny spot under my pec. Not sure it’s healing, but at least it’s smaller and not blackish any longer.)
klemptor@startrek.website 10 months ago
This is what I always did before covid but now I don’t anymore.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me too! Back when we thought COVID could spread easily from surface contact, I found myself at the grocery trying to decide WTF I was going to do.
“Uh, dare I stick my fingers under the mask, or, what?”
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
Put the opening “line” between your big hands and rub it; both hands goes along the “opening line”, one hand moves one way, the other hand the other way for say some centimetres or an inch or two, change direction, repeat.
explodicle@local106.com 10 months ago
I just wave it around frantically until the wind opens it.
Jeanschyso@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those bags are almost useless, just throw the vegetables directly in your grocery bag at checkout. It’s nice to take one to isolate chicken from the rest, or to put on your bike seat for rainy days, but definitely not useful for veggies.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Crumple it into a ball and straighten it again. Then put it between your flat hands and rub them against each other.
The small wrinkles from crumpling break cohesion between the layers, and the friction from rubbing separates them.moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have dry hands, these are my nemesis
DytallixB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Moses parted the sea faster than I separate the bag at the store
TechLauren@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One of the best life tips I’ve ever gotten was from some random stranger as I desperately struggled with one of these things: Most times if you slide one edge up and one edge down it pops right open even with super dry skin. Not sure why this works when sliding the halves sideways does not but it dies!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s nothing, go buy a roll of dog poop bags…
AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 10 months ago
You just rub both ends at the same time.
sagrotan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like your uncle said back in the day: blow it
lseif@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
after working at a supermarket you can open one in like 1s 🙏 skill issue
Desistance@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This was me today. I just wanted some apples dammit.
Rumblebean@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I find its easy to open up the bag while its still attached to the roll its like having more hands. I’ll definitely try crumpling the bag next time.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How have I become a dad? I don’t even have a girlfriend.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
I had filled one bag. Then tried to fill the othet with air to open it up, when the filled one broke and everything went out the bottom.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Produce Manager here. Place the end that opens directly between your two palms, and rub your palms together vigorously. The bag will stick to one side or both, opening every time. Please stop licking your fingers to open these bags and then picking through our vegetables.
Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Vegetable Farmer here. That shit is already gross. Wash your veggies.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Produce Manager here. Thanks for all of the gross vegetables!
Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 10 months ago
A breath of hot air also makes the bag stick to your hands and easy to separate. Like you’re trying to fog a window.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 10 months ago
I knew there will be a comment like this.