bdk wrote:
Without the grocery store bags you don't save any plastic because then you have to buy bags for trash anyhow.
Do you? We use a
lot less bags for rubbish than we used to get at the supermarket, only partly because a lot of what was rubbish is now recycle material, which goes out unbagged. Generally reusable plasticised canvas or canvas bags are used here for shopping, and you have to request a plastic bag.
The 'cellophane era' only started in the 1950s, as we know it, don't forget. We've had a 50 year disposable packaging society, and it's on the way out for multiple reasons.
I'm betting that our grandchildren will be mining our parent's landfill.
The 'greatest generation' would be shocked at our cavalier affluent attitudes to one-use and throw-when-damaged attitudes, because what they had needed to last them, and packaging was mostly paper and card, tin and glass. Other than 'no garbage' I'd rather see
those in my local creek, rather than the floods of plastic bottles, bags and expanded polystyrene. Maybe not the lead though.
Just some thoughts.
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