Paper Or Plastic? Neither, Thanks…
Using cloth or canvas shopping bags for your grocery shopping is one of the easiest, cheapest and fastest methods for living green and helping the environment.
Many large supermarket chains are now offering incentives to use their re-usable shopping bags and/or bringing your own. Our local chain offers a 5 cent credit for every bag you bring of your own.
The one problem I have encountered with this effort is remembering to bring the bags with me…I always plan to put them back in the car when we get home from the store, but it doesn’t always work that way. And, sure enough, I am in the store parking lot and realize that I left the bags at home.
So what I did to prevent this from happening was to buy a few more bags and keep them in a rotation. If I forget to put them in the car when I get home, I still have plenty in the trunk for the next trip. For some reason, I remember to put them back in the car after that. Don’t ask my why.
Here is a great article that I found listing all of the awful details about plastic bags and how brutal they are on our environment and eco-system:
http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/reusablebags.htm
If you would like to go out in style, there are a number of options to go eco-chic…
Option if you are a business owner and want to supply bags to your patrons