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Refusing plastic bags

debra roby — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:05:19 -0500

I have asked for paper grocery bags for almost forever. And I re-use them. I keep my stash in the car, retrieve them when I'm heading to the store, have them load them heavy. I say firmly: put nothing in plastic unless you want to repack it. It's your time.

Paper grocery bags last about 6 months before they become too thin to use. Then I simply get another set. Almost every store credits me $.02 to recycle my bags. And I'm usually the only customer in the store doing so. Why don't more people do use this option?

I'm in the proces of making up some nice fold-able cloth bags that I will carry into other stores for when I do some shopping. (Yes, it will be a tutorial here. Coming soon!). The trick is to keep them in the car; a hard habit to develop.

Debra
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Laziness and being tired of

Lyssann — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:19:48 -0500

Laziness and being tired of clutter have actually caused me to stop using plastic bags. I'm much better about taking my canvas bags to the store because I'm tired of the silly plastic bags filling up my pantry until i take them back to the store. Plus, seeing them on everything and everywhere blowing around makes me sad.

On another note, Kroger, one of our grocery chains here in the midwest (I think they're under a different name out west) has decided to stop buying milk with hormones. They said consumer preference, not safety caused them to make that decision. AND of course Montesanto (the maker of rBH) complained that now no one is going to be buying their hormones (oooh, boo hoo, cry me a river) even though they are TOTALLY safe.

Healthy Manifest

Amen!

mom2amara — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:37:24 -0500

Living in the Midwest, I sometimes feel we're lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to reuse and recycling.

Every time I walk into Target, I get funny looks from the cashiers because I ask that they not give me a plastic bag and beg that they allow me to just toss it in my canvas one.

And just this morning, I was at a farmers market of all places and one vendor insisted I take my purchases in a plastic bag!!

I don't get it. Why must I still choose paper or plastic?