Stop. Putting. One. Little. Thing. In. A. Bag.
July 28th, 2009 at 07:18am Jennie Pollock
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.
Entry Filed under: Recycling, In the news, Living without plastic
2 Comments Add your own
1. Monkey | July 28th, 2009 at 8:04 am
I’ve become obsessed with doing this lately and it’s amazing how quickly it adds up when you DON’T take a bag. Though, it is funny how the clerks look at you when you tell them you don’t need a bag. This is very effective at strip malls or indoor malls. If you know you’re going to be hitting multiple stores, either bring your own bag or get a bag with your first purchase and then consolidate. Every little bit helps!
2. Andrew Kellogg | July 28th, 2009 at 8:13 am
We should have a law where all businesses HAVE to charge 10 cents per bag. This would immediately make people think and most would start reusing bags right away. Also we should have a surcharge (deposit) of a nickel per cigarette, a dime a bottle, 5 bucks a tire etc. That way if you want to toss all this stuff out the window go ahead because somebody would be picking it up and making a living off of it.
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