Plastic Bags
Did you know that the average consumer uses about 500 disposable plastic bags per year? I remember not so long ago justifying taking the plastic bags from the stores because they were so useful for household garbage. Well I am not letting myself use that excuse any longer. If I am shopping and I have forgotten my cloth reusable bag, I use a cardboard box for my groceries or I carry it out by hand and akwardly throw it all into the car. I consider this as my punishment for being such a putz about not remembering my reusable bags!
Back to the number – 500 bags per year, staggering. I recently went to premier (in Vancouver) for The Clean Bin Project (cleanbinmovie.com) and met a women who made a dress out of 500 shopping bags. I can tell you it was a lot of bags and she made quite the rustle when she walked around. The visual of 500 bags is actually quite sobering and a wake up call for me.
The poll question for the month of July will be: Do you remember your reusable shopping bags?
My answer is “most of the time”.
Dress made of 500 shopping bags! Wow.
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What kills me is when the plastic bags are double bagged. Here is a product that has such a short life span it is not even made to last the walk out to the car. What is the point??? So now when people use plastic bags, its not even just 1/load but its 2. Talk about complete waste. Another reason why a cloth bag is so much more practical and necessary.