The time for what we could have done is well past..
Some things that werent broken got fixed and thats partly why we are in the mess we are today.
I save my plastic and give it to a guy that runs a produce stand. saves him money, and helps with environment as well. others are doing the same. I know it's not like using papaer or cloth, but it's a start.
I was rudely reprimanded and dropped from another group for posting this and I apologize if it offends anyone. I don't want to lose my friends on eons for sharing a message from a dear friend.
Sam
Thanks Sam for this reminder, I'm sharing your link with my friends... I have a few cloth bags now which I use at the grocery store. And I try to refuse plastic bags when I'm shopping if at all possible. Inch by inch....
Sam you won't get in trouble with this group. I think we stay away from politcal stuff. But there is a whole group dedicated to that crap.
Sam,
First the info was very informative. I work in a grocery store and we have been trying to get our customers to move to their own bags. Inch by inch.
Second, any group that would reprimand you is not a group that I would want to be a part of. No loss there, honey.
Thirdly, you would not lose any eons friends over this. If you lost any, guess what, they weren't true friends anyway.
Thanks for taking the time and effort to bring this important matter to our attention.
Thanks for making me aware of what the effects of plastic bags do too the environment . It will make me rethink the next time I use one.
I disagree, Anna, I don't believe that it's too late to begin an all out effort to save the planet. Everything helps. Never ever give up.
In my own small way, I eschew plastic bags -- ask for paper if supermarkets have it and when I can, bring my own cloth bags. I HATE the buggers for it takes so many of them to carry what one brown paper bag can tote.
Just one of them cost me $452 in vet bills one Sunday when my cat got into the garbage and got one stuffed down her throat.
They came into ubiquitous use by supermarkets as a "cost saving" measure over paper bags, but they sure cost everyone more in the long run, don't they? Just the oil consumed to make them should give us pause.
When the grocers used to offer them I always asked for paper bags. It is now a thing of the past! And those paper bags were always handy to re use for other purposes. I used to cut them open and flat for cooling cookies on, peeling and cleaning veggies on and disposing of the skins/peels/rinds (saved on doing it on paper towels).
If you don't want to invest in the cloth bags, you can always keep a few boxes around to bring your groceries home in, or how about those large paper gift bags with the handles, save them and keep them in your trunk for shopping day. I even have some really strong shopping bags with handles that I happened to save from shopping in department stores that still used them.
But since I too still get stuck in the world of plastic, I do try to re use them for small trash can liners around the house, for disposing of the scoopings in the cat litter boxes, use them as package cushioning when sending out things in the mail, packing my lunch for work, and then save them up at work and bring them back home to use again. And I even keep a few in my car for litter bags, just make a loop in one handle side stick it through the other and it hangs nicely on that useless cigarette lighter in the car, or on the radio knob, or put a small self stick plastic hook low on the center dash and hang it there. Keeps you from throwing that gum or candy wrapper or used wad of tissue out the window!
