If they were a nickel, no one would think twice about it and everyone would get the bag with the purchase. Probably this price is more psychological that you start to think bag or no bag.I don’t mind buying a bag. But if it really was SOLEY about the environment, then why don’t they just charge the actual cost of the bag- a nickel maybe? And limit them available only with purchase.
Now everyone has a new use for the Castaway Club tote bag gift.
Of course it's about the cost. But now Disney can paint themselves as caring about the environment as a cover story.
Maybe we can sell the special DCL reuseable bags on ebay ...
Bingo. It's Disney. It's always about the $$$$$.
Ack. Am I the only person who has noticed that the more “environmentally friendly” we get, the more trash we make? Also, we don’t reuse nearly as many things as we used to. Finally, has anyone ever given two thoughts about how things are recycled (hint: it takes electricity which is made by burning fossil fuels)? Or that plastic, when broken down creates noxious fumes?
The most biodegradable option (also highly reusable) are paper bags. Yet, companies don’t go back to using them, because they costs the companies more money than plastic does. Instead, they promote “reusable” bags and pass the costs on to consumers. The reusable bags don’t last forever so more and more will eventually fill the trash heaps and because they are coated in plastic will take much longer to break down than paper sacks (you know, the kind that used to come FREE from every store?).
So, customers are once again being charged more and given less. AND the companies have convinced consumers that it’s not about the money (which it IS—it is ALWAYS about the money).
My gripe is that we used to get food in glass, cardboard, foil and occasionally some waxed paper.
Now, we get plastic, plastic, plastic-coated paper, more plastic and styrofoam. Just look at the packaging the next time you shop. How many times do you have to take something out of plastic? Or what about those horrible clamshell plastic packages you have to cut open to get the product out? Even Hershey bars went to those weird foil colored plastic wrappers instead of the paper and foil they used to used to use. Yet, the uproar from environmental groups always seems to be about bags or straws — never about things like packaging that actually has a much larger impact.
Sorry about the rant, but these threads come up all the time with people congratulating themselves for being so environmentally conscious and defending the companies. The companies are NOT making these decisions for the environment. They are thinking about profit first and PR second. For them, a decision like this is win-win.
I would be more convinced if they’d go back to free paper sacks.
Unless you are buying a crap-ton of stuff, you can also just take it back to your cabin. The ships are not THAT big. I did that on the Wonder a couple of weeks ago - bought my 2 sweat shirts, 1 turvis wine cup, and rainbow Mickey pin and just took them back to my cabin. It did not take that long, and I would have been heading right back to my cabin to drop off the bag anyway.
I have to laugh at this. We first used paper bags but people whined about cutting down the all the trees so they went to plastic. Now people are whining about plastic so all of a sudden paper is good again.Please note, select luxury brands will offer paper bags for their high-end products.
If this was just about the environment, they would switch to paper bags
I wouldn’t mind to pay a $1 for a Disney reusable bag. I always come home with all these Disney plastic bags even when I most often refuse a bag if I already have one. Now I have a good reason to get one of those cute bags!
Now, see, not everyone tossed the old, plastic bags in the trash once home. I always reused them, for packing lunches, trash can liners, carrying my handwork projects, whatever. In fact I would make strips out of them to crochet stuff (water bottle holders, rugs, clothespin bags) Now people are using the bags that they have to pay for in that manner, something that should probably have been promoted all along.I feel exactly the same. We have some reusable bags that have been reused so much they are falling apart. I never mind picking up a new one here or there. And as you say - better to have a bag I can reuse when I get home than one that goes directly into the garbage.