On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:16:38 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> wrote:

>On Mar 20, 10:56*am, "Giusi" > wrote:
>> "ImStillMags" *ha scritto nel messaggio
>>
>> *"gloria.p" > wrote:
>> > I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>
>> >http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>
>> > Any suggestions/solutions?
>>
>> > gloria p
>>
>> well, I guess if you put raw meat directly into the bag....
>>
>> >I still use the flimsy plastic bags in the meat and >produce department to
>> >put stuff in. *Foods never >actually
>> >come into contact with my cloth grocery bags. *Seems >like common sense to
>> >me.
>>
>> So you use as many as twenty little bags to avoid using one big one?
>> Who buys meat that is totally unwrapped? *Even my butcher wraps it in
>> butcher paper and string. *At the supermarkets most of it is in little
>> sealed trays, no?
>
>no, more like three or four of the little flimsy ones per trip.
>Even with the sealed trays you can get leakage. Even with butcher
>paper and string you can get leakage. I don't put vegetables
>straight into the bags either.
>
>The things I like about the cloth grocery bags is that they are square
>and have a piece of rigid plastic in the bottom that keeps them square
>and upright. The hold way more than a regular plastic grocery bag,
>don't puncture and have handles that make them easy to carry.
>
>I can get into two cloth bags which would have taken four or five
>plastic bags to hold. The produce bags are
>the more biodegradable ones and are actually reusable if you want to
>reuse them as well.
>
>The cloth bags fold up nicely and nest inside one cloth bag and I keep
>them in the trunk of my car so I have
>them at hand.

And when a package of meat leaked into a cloth bag unbeknownst to you
the next day your car will stink like something died in there.