Plastic bags are as much or more trouble than they are useful. Up to 100 billion are used each year in this country, and they make bringing groceries home (or even protecting a newspaper from rain) so easy. But they also choke wildlife, create litter and overload dumps for generations to come. It also takes 12 million barrels of oil to make a year’s supply.A simple step like getting a few reusable grocery bags could cut these numbers significantly!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Another reason to get a Reusable Grocery Bag!
From today's Times editorial:
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Fred Meyer actually gave their employees a free reusable shopping bag. There was an article a couple of months ago in the company newsletter that explained all the benefits to switching to reusable bags. One being that you can fit three times as many items in one bag, that the baggers at the store put in three. I am not sure what they did for the rest of the Kroger affiliations.
-Rach
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