Since we already use reusable bags for shopping, I signed this month’s “bring your own bag” pledge for The Center for the New American Dream‘s Carbon Conscious Consumer program. We have a bag of cloth bags collected from various conferences in the back of the car & have trained ourselves to grab them when we head into the grocery story. Remembering to bring them into other types stores has been more of a challenge, but we’re able to cut our plastic bag waste tremendously. Those we still collect get reused around the house for various purposes, donated to neighbors for dog doo duty, or brought back to the grocery store plastic bag recycling bin.
Now if we could just get those grocery baggers to understand that cloth bags are far stronger than either paper or plastic bags & pack them accordingly…