Green, Greener, Greenest: Reach Higher!
I’m gonna push you to a deeper, richer shade of green. Are you ready? Here goes!
You know the clear plastic bags they have at the grocery store for bagging produce and bulk goods? It’s time to break the bad habit of using these once. After you’ve emptied these bags of their contents, turn them inside out, wash them, and prop them up in your dish rack to dry. (You can do this with Ziploc baggies, too.) Once dry, put these clean, totally reusable plastic baggies into your favorite stylish shopping bag, and you’ll be armed and ready to go for your next bout of zero-waste shopping.
And don’t be shy about it. When a fellow shopper noticed I was reusing plastic bags, she complimented me on my green ingenuity and said she was inspired to start doing the same. This era’s rule of thumb for sustainability is: anything that can be reused, must be reused. Clever trend-setting will save the day. (Tip: if your local grocery store hasn’t yet switched from standard plastic bags to the biodegradable kind, encourage them to do it now.)
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3 Comments
May 29th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I <3 your motto: anything that can be reused, must be reused. I will not forget those words ..
March 16th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I recylce all plastic bags even overwrap. Overwrap consists of the plastic wrap aroung the toilet paper bundles, newspapers inserts ( my area bundles the ads and coupons in a plastic wrapper, and zip top bags, dry cleaning bags. I take all these and any plastic bags I find floating around back to my local grocery store and put it all in the recycle bin they have for these bags.
One shopper noticed what I was doing and we got into a discussion about what I bring there and she was so excited, she had been throwing all the “other overwrap” away.
If it is a plastic not labeled 1-7, take it there, they will recycle it with the bags.
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