Eco-Friendly Living

Top Foods, Safeway, Fred Meyer, QFC and Albertsons all offer the fabric bags now. One city adjacent to mine is going to require stores to quit using plastic bags and charge for paper.

I have maybe 20 (???)now...not enough for the once every three months shopping I do and I keep them in the car. (I admit I have run in to a store and forgotten to take them along anyway!) I also have four of the insulated freezer bags....I need lots more of those.

While one side of me likes the idea of the fabric bags, another part of me thinks of all the ways I reuse the plastic and paper bags and resents not having those available to me. (Well, the paper WILL be and I can always hit a Costco for bags, too.)

It's quite a controversial topic out here....mandatory purchase of the bags to take your groceries home in and some folks are saying they'll just cross over into another city and shop there rather than be forced to buy the bags.

 

MARTi, CL (Crazy Lady) of Crafts and Co-CL of Crafter's Community ! CL for Eco-Friendly Living !Come and visit me!!

Be Green! It's good for the earth and your budget, too! 

MAKE ART, NOT WAR!

I like people so much I decided to be one .

 

(and I love them!)

I use fabric bags from Home Depot, when shopping there.  I hang it with my purse.  But I do not use them at grocery stores.  Besides, I would much rather shop at Home Depot, Lowes or Menards than grocery shopping!!

I do not use them when grocery shopping because of the bacteria possibilities.  If I have to wash them after each use, then I am using more water, detergent, etc, besides the fact that they would wear out too fast.  If I have certain foods put in a plastic bag before my reusable bag, then what's the point?

I read a long time ago, that the bags need to be washed, as you do your lunch box/container with food in it, after each use.  I think if I were to reuse grocery bags I would have to opt out for the mesh kind, clean them and hang them to dry.  But, not very likely to do that.