How can I avoid using plastic bags when buying bread in Thailand?

Sep 15, 2024
3 months ago
Marc ************
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Just bought 70 paper bags for bread ๐Ÿž. Take them with me when I come back in November.

I got tired of seeing every croissant disappearing in a small plastic bag.

With some good balanced organisation in using them, and some recycling. It must be enough for 6 months of 'plastic bag free croissants'.
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A user shared their experience of purchasing 70 paper bags for bread to reduce reliance on plastic. The conversation explored various opinions on the sustainability and practicalities of using paper bags versus plastic, with some users suggesting alternatives, expressing frustrations with local bakery practices, or emphasizing the importance of reducing plastic use. Discussions also touched on the environmental impact of packaging choices and practical suggestions for carrying and storing baked goods.
Salim *******
This group really is: And Everything Else.

People will do anything to feel good about themselves, nothing wrong with that.
Sheen ************
Why are so many people obsessed with posting about how wonderful they are.
Marc ************
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@Sheen ***********
because it hides the disappointment in the losers.
John *********
We all have our ways, values, and beliefs.

Why not just buy a roll of butcher paper, and cut squares to wrap your purchases with? The machines, and energy to cut those, the glue manufactured to make them bags, and the ink used to make them pretty seem to defeat the purpose.

Plain butcher paper. Cut squares to take shopping with you. Wrap your purchases to bring home.
Philip **********
I was making my own bread but next time I will bring some whole meal flour with me. Can buy in Makro but it's not quite milled the same but it does work. Topps sell small bags of flour from Australia but it's expensive. Must be able to buy 10kg bags at a reasonable price.
Jay *******
Virtue well and truly signalled. All you need now is another "booster-jab" and you'll be remembered as a martyr... (probably sooner than you think). lol
Christopher *************
This is to do with visas ????
Greta *****
Can you sell me some please? I don't know how I could live without these papar bags , now that you mentioned it...
Marc ************
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@Greta ****
come to Srinakarin when I get back in November.
Isabella ************
The best is to buy cotton bags ..you have all sizes...like this no need to make anything in garbage...can use a long time..I have a t home a long cotton bag especially for bread...we use to keep bread like this before..
Rafael *******
How many trees needed to die for your paperbags and how many litres of water got polluted with toxic chemicals from the bleeching and printing?

All of that to consume some empty carbohydrates which make you diabetic and gluten intolerant without providing any proper nutrients? The illusion of doing something good....
Tim *********
@Rafael ******
Opinionated is OK, but ya done have to push it down others' throats. My guess he just likes fresher bread products, not damp limp ones in bags made from processed carbon and never disintegrate ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
Brian *******
@Rafael ******
Do you know how many bottle nose dolphins die a year from plastic bags getting stuck in their blowholes? Yeah, I don't either.
Jack ****************
@Brian ******
do you know how many monkeys I need to jerk off to get a bag like that? Also, do you know a good location for interacting with monkeys?
Brian *******
@Jack ***************
Funny you should ask, I am in Ao Nang and my hand is getting tired. Could use some help. Hint....they hang out at the cliffs in the early morning after drinking and doing blow all night.
Rafael *******
@Brian ******
Dolphins are evil.

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Rune ********
Life is tough
Carlo ******************
Wow....very smart!๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ
Dennis ******
They always do a double-take when I pull out my reusable shopping bag. Nothing wrong with demonstrating better ways to do things ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ
Frangipani *******
@Dennis *****
I do the same. No matter where I shop.
Peter **********
Hahahaโ€ฆ The 0.
*****
6 degree syndrome. ๐Ÿคฃ
Michael **********
3rd world country, all the developed ones have already been banning plastic for a decade at least but thailand is going it the direction of giving as much plastic as possible... Perhaps thing will change in 20yrs...
Jay *******
@Michael *********
You waking TF up to the climate hoax, for instance?
Sue **********
I never got bakery in plastic bags here. Always rapped or put in a paper bag. Then they put it in plastic bags, where I always just say โ€žno bagโ€œ. Where do you buy your bakery
@Marc ***********
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Marc ************
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Greta *****
That's one way to bag your first world problems ...
Jennifer ******
Most of the bakeries I go to do not use plastic bags. Maybe just visit those that don't and avoid those that do.
Ter ******
why not just reuse one of the plastic bags? in any case agree the one time plastic use here is "o-verrr" as the Thais say
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