Oh Those Plastic Shopping Bags

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1. In the eighties, in Communist Poland, we carried our groceries in shopping bags and plastic bags. Sometimes over long distances.

   I firserne, i det kommunistiske Polen, bar vi vores dagligvarer i indkøbsposer og plasticposer. Nogle gange over lange afstande.

2. Nobody complained. You were just glad you'd managed to buy something.

   Ingen klagede. Man var bare glad for, at man havde fået købt noget.

3. My, how everything changed when we moved to Canada in the early nineties.

   Du godeste, hvor alt ændrede sig, da vi flyttede til Canada i de tidlige halvfemser.

4. Suddenly plastic bags were like water, free and unlimited.

   Pludselig var plasticposer som vand, gratis og ubegrænsede.

5. Sometimes you'd put a single item in its own little plastic bag.

   Nogle gange puttede man en enkelt vare i sin egen lille plasticpose.

6. To make it even funnier, all the groceries went into the cart, and from the cart into the car.

   For at gøre det endnu sjovere, gik alle dagligvarerne i vognen, og fra vognen til bilen.

7. So you only carried them a few steps.

   Så man bar dem kun få skridt.

8. In December of twenty twenty-three, a ban on handing out plastic bags in stores came into effect across Canada.

   I december 2023 trådte et forbud mod uddeling af plasticposer i butikker i kraft over hele Canada.

9. Oh, there was a lot of complaining about that.

   Åh, der blev klaget meget over det.

10. I'll admit, I had a hard time getting used to it too.

    Jeg må indrømme, jeg havde også svært ved at vænne mig til det.

11. I kept forgetting to bring my bags.

    Jeg blev ved med at glemme at tage mine poser med.

12. I often carried everything in my arms or bought yet more reusable bags, so I ended up with quite a collection.

    Jeg bar ofte alt i armene eller købte endnu flere genanvendelige poser, så jeg endte med en hel samling.

13. Still, two years later, I've finally gotten used to it.

    Alligevel er jeg to år senere endelig vant til det.

14. Now, when I'm in the States, I'm surprised they still hand out plastic bags without a second thought.

    Nu, når jeg er i USA, bliver jeg overrasket over, at de stadig uddeler plasticposer uden at tænke sig om.

15. It took forty years, but history has come full circle.

    Det tog fyrre år, men historien er kommet fuldt rundt.

16. Once again, we pack our groceries in a sensible way.

    Endnu engang pakker vi vores dagligvarer på en fornuftig måde.

17. It's just a shame we needed all of forty years to wise up.

    Det er bare en skam, at vi skulle bruge hele fyrre år på at blive klogere.