QotD: Happy Earth Day
What do you do EVERY day to take care of the earth's environment? What could you do more of?
I've been trying to use re-useable shopping bags as much as possible. I have been trying to do this for a number of years, but I found two major stumbling blocks: not wanting to use my grocery bags to carry non-food items, like new clothes or books, since there may be traces of food in them; and having to struggle at the check-out to get grocery store clerks to pack my groceries into my cotton bags. In the past, more often than not, I would have to do it myself, and with a baby in a sling in the cramped grocery store we frequented downtown, it was very hard, so for most of ReRe's first year, I had little choice but to let them use plastic. Well, now that most major grocery chains have their own reusable bags, and the clerks have been instructed to use them, I'm finding I almost never come home from grocery shopping with plastic bags. As for the non-food items, thanks to stores like lululemon who provide re-usable bags that are sturdy and stylist (and don't just print 'Please Re-Use' on plastic bags) and are easy to carry, I hnow bring those for my other shopping trips, and have been able to cut down on the plastic/paper bags I bring home from other stores.
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