Writing yesterday about my little garbage holders reminded me of what garbage is often put in – those plastic grocery bags that most stores still give out. Recycling the ones that find their way to me, as a few always seem to do, I just don’t think about using them for trash anymore. They automatically go back to the store, along with plastic potato and veggie bags and the like. But it got me thinking about the plastic we can be given left and right with almost every purchase.
Some supermarkets have stopped providing grocery bags altogether. (Yay!) Recently, another major grocery chain here stopped providing the plastic ones. As far as I was concerned, a good move as long as it didn’t lead to more use of heavier purchased garbage bags. Talk about counter-productive. However, besides including these heavier ones in various store promotions, they continue to give out paper bags, many stronger than what stores gave out years ago, and these ones with rather heavy duty handles. I could see this as an interim measure, but when I queried the store about if or when all these free bags would be discontinued, I was told there were no plans to stop. This was not happy news to me.
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I think when it comes to plastic shopping bags, I’ll never forget a time when I overheard a clerk ask a customer if she wanted a bag for some small item she was buying. The woman said yes, and then proceeded to put this new purchase, freshly bagged in plastic, into yet another plastic bag she already had – her arms loaded with a collection of them in fact. All I could think of was maybe it was just habit. Either that or it was a sense of entitlement that a free bag is just supposed to come with every purchase. That she’d feel cheated somehow if she didn’t get hers each time. I’ll never know what she was really thinking, maybe she had a good reason I’m unaware of. I do hope however, that she thought something, and that maybe, just maybe, she carries an armful of cloth bags today.
