Friday, June 4, 2010

Go California! No more plastic grocery bags, please!

One of the issues I was going to address on this blog is the importance of reusing.  Specifically, grocery bags.  I feel like there is no excuse anymore for using paper/plastic when you can buy some reusable bags for only around $1 each.  Take them shopping wherever you go...Target, the mall, the grocery store, the farmer's market.  Whenever I forget my reusable bags (which only really happens when someone else is driving their car and I forgot to grab mine out of my own car), I feel like such a second class citizen.  Seriously!  I am truly embarrassed when I step out of a store carrying my items in a plastic bag, or even a paper bag.  Luckily I usually go shopping with my mom and she has some handy dandy purse-sized reusable bags that open up to a nice roomy bag when I'm in a pinch.  I need to invest in some of those.  Then they are always with you.  If I do end up with some plastic or paper bags, I reuse those as well as much as I can.  But never to clean up the doggie doo!  For that, I use those bio-bags.  Who wants dog sh*t rotting in a plastic bag that takes forever and a day to degrade.

So you can imagine how excited I was when I opened up MSNBC and found this article addressing California's plan to ban plastic bags in pharmacies, liquor stores, and grocery stores, to name a few.  Arnie fully backs this up, too!  If this passes, we will be the first state in our nation to enforce such a fabulous environmental law as this one. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37514616/ns/us_news-environment/

Yay team!

3 comments:

  1. I totally agree, and am getting better and better about remembering my reusable bags, but where did your mom get those purse size bags?? I haven't seen those, but that would be great! Let me know if you can find out where she got them.

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  2. They have them at Mother's right near the checkout, or they have lots of options online like this one:

    http://www.reusablebags.com/store/chicobag™-colorful-compact-reusable-shopping-p-450.html

    and these ones:

    http://www.reusablebags.com/store/shopping-bags-ultracompact-c-2_6.html

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  3. I was gonna see if I could get this law passed in Long Beach, but then heard about this. GO Cali!

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