Good post Larry.

 

Very, very good.
I hadn't completly stopped using plastic bags, but after seeing this post. No more plastic bags for me.

 

I have reusable shopping bags, one canvas and one made out of recycled plastic. I do use the plastic produce bags at the grocery store, but I reuse those over and over until they wear out. It's a lot easier to significantly reduce waste than to eliminate it.

Sg

 

A friend of mine shared this with me, so thought it might be good to share here. I think it is easy to "not worry" about some of these things until you see a few photos like this. I was reminded of a trip out to Shi Shi Beach where I saw a lot of plastic stuff from Japan rolling up on the beach. I do reuse my plastic bags as Salmo says also, but maybe it's time to get out the cloth bag!

 

excellent post...

 

Those cloth bags are handy for all kinds of stuff. We've got a half dozen or so and they get use all the time.

We still get a plastic bag from time to time, makes a great way to clean up somebody else's trash at the lake or stream, for instance. I've always got one behind the seat of my truck for just such instances.

Great post.

 

Wow, great post. My wife and I have been using cloth bags on and off for a year now. I think it's time we become fully committed to using reusable cloth now. That's pretty disturbing stuff.

-Jeff

 

I thought that most of those bags were biodegradable. At least it says so on some of them.

But the same can be said for discarded fishing line.

Jim

 

Thanks for the reminder, Larry.:thumb:

I should be using a cloth bag. i have one. I'm a lazy s.o.b. for not digging it out and changing my bad habits.

 

As a grocery bagger (don't you love first jobs?), I consider myself somewhat of an expert on the topic. Plastic bags are bad for just about everything except ease of bagging stuff. Luckily, at my workplace, we have a recycling area, which I am semi-proud to say, I usually have to empty at least twice per day. As mentioned, usually they don't get recycled as more bags, but more commonly artificial decking material. My workplace is also considering charging for plastic bags, we already offer small refunds for the use reusable bags.

As a final note, cloth bags totally suck from the point of view of a bagger. They are difficult to get stuff in the quickly. Not to say that I don't support them, I just hate them when I'm at work.
-Ethan

 

Good Post!