Last month, we had an awful
hail storm, and now that all the insurance inspections have been made, we are dealing with repairs. My car had to spend 8 days in the shop for bodywork, and I LEFT MY REUSABLE BAGS IN THE BACK!
We have done so well with using reusable bags at every opportunity, and though we reuse some plastic bags as trash can liners and recycle the rest, once we realized how much plastic we had been throwing away, we became concerned about it. Bringing home items in plastic grocery bags seems bad enough when you read and hear what they are doing to the environment, but so many items are already packaged in plastic, that our recycling bag gets stuffed full before we get all the groceries put away. It was really astonishing to realize how much waste one trip to the grocery store generates. One of my kids said that he thinks grocery stores in the future should have large dispensers of products that you load into refillable containers, such as laundry detergent, cereal, dry beans, rice, and chips (does anyone remember Charles Chips? They used to come around the neighborhood in a van and refill your metal Charles Chips tin.)
Here are some amazing ways to reuse those bags and help the planet a little bit:
1 comment:
Very cute designs! I love it!
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