Stop. Putting. One. Little. Thing. In. A. Bag.

2 comments July 28th, 2009

Either bring one reusable bag from y our car when you run into a store for a quick errand or just carry it out with the receipt so you don’t look like a common thief.

I’ve nagged about this before, but I can’t believe how hard this habit is to break for cashiers and shoppers.

Looks like a suburban Chicago county is on the recycle-your-bags bandwagon.

Roughly 70 grocery stores, drugstores and other retailers in Lake County are participating in a six-month pilot program set up by the task force to encourage customers to recycle plastic bags - and use fewer of them in the first place.

Jewel-Osco, Lowe’s, Sunset Foods, Walgreens, Butera, CVS, JCPenney, PetSmart and Piggly Wiggly are among the companies that will put a special container near their front doors to collect used plastic bags.

The experiment is to last from June through the end of the year, with collections being weighed to gauge the effect on the environment. The idea is to present evidence that it’s working to the state legislature in the hopes of growing the program.