Re-usable shopping bags seem to be popping up- being available to purchase all over at the grocery stores and even at Wal-mart...so why is it that so many people seem to still be using those dreaded plastic bags??? I truly do not understand why it's so hard for people to spend the whole $0.99 per bag and grab a couple.... let me give you some reasons to switch:
- They are only $0.99!!!
- You can fit at least twice the amount of groceries in the re-usable bags as you can in the plastic ones
- They are easier to carry
- They don't make those red-pinchy marks on your fingers and wrists!
- Each year Americans throw away 100 BILLION plastic bags - only 0.6% are recycled
- Plastic bags are the #1 item found as litter on North American Beaches
- Plastic bags are made from petroleum - 12 million barrels of petroleum annually for the US consumption of plastic bags!
- Plastic shopping bags can take 15 - 1000 YEARS to decompose!
- Some grocery stores will offer discounts to people who bring in re-usable bags!!
So there you have it... it's economical, environmentally friendly, and convenient - NOW DO IT!
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I have one, but I always forget to bring it. It is a little frustrating when I get to the store checkout and look at my wife "we forgo.." I don't have to finish it and she is saying "again!"
Once we even remembered to bring it into the store, but forgot to use it... Elizabeth went off somewhere with it in the diaper bag while I was checking out... Oh well... Maybe one day we will get into the habit...
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