Talk:plastic bag

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plastic bag

Total SOP? — [Ric Laurent] — 23:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes. -- Liliana • 23:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

It's an everyday item like handkerchief, even if it's written with a space in between, it's a word.

It's included in foreign language dictionaries: Mandarin: [1], Japanese: [2], Russian: [3], why don't we include it? Keep, of course. --Anatoli 01:04, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Exactly and we should keep it because it is an everyday consumer good. It is unique. Translations are useful. It is too common a term to make it hard on people looking it up having to cross reference plastic and bag which both have tons of convoluted info on em. Some plastic bags aren't even made out of plastic they are made out of starch or corn, some are singleuse some are multiuse some are permanent, some rot, some not. All that is not something you could expect to find with plastic+bag defs yaknowhamean?Acdcrocks 02:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Your rationales for keeping things make no lexicographic sense and you never seem to learn from these discussions. Equinox ◑ 15:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Depends if any bag made out of plastic is a plastic bag. FWIW I don't care how many non-English dictionaries have it, we're not trying to be other dictionaries, we're just trying to be Wiktionary. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:09, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

For one thing, a bag made of a woven fabric of plastic fibers would not be called a plastic bag in normal usage that I am familiar with. For another, the plastic bags (or bag-like things ?) enclosing electronic items inside the cardboard and foam are not normally called plastic bags in my experience.

FWIW, I have a great deal of respect for the inclusion decisions of lexicographic professionals vs. our own votes. DCDuring TALK 15:48, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I suppose I sometimes get sent things in plastic envelopes which are in effect bags (just of a squarish shape) but I wouldn't call that a plastic bag. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Some are not made out of petrochemicals they are biodegradable but resemble the petro ones almost exactly and they are still called plastic bags due to their exact same purpose.Acdcrocks 21:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

The bags enclosing electronics and the envelopes I would call (and have called) 'plastic bags'. Woven, I guess not. FWIW.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

CALPERG is working on a series of plastic bag bans, but these laws don't target any old transport invention made from plastic, just the one's handed out by stores.Acdcrocks 03:10, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Washington D.C. has imposed a 5 cent tax on plastic bags, which is understood only to apply to grocery bags, including those made of plastic-like materials that are technically not plastic, but not to garbage bags or to plastic purses. I would be inclined to keep and note the paper/plastic dichotomy. bd2412 T 03:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

I find it difficult to come up with any solid reason for keeping this, so a legal one is a bit of a stretch, but it does show that a priori we think of plastic bags in the specific context of shopping even when we would consider a trash bag to be, you know, a bag made of plastic and technically fulfilling the request if not quite what we had in mind when we asked the host if she had any plastic bags we could borrow. DAVilla 05:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Treat like day after tomorrow. -- Gauss 07:13, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

No deserves a definition.Acdcrocks 21:51, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

keep, not just a bad made outta plasic. --Rockpilot 06:10, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Kept. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 20:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)