The United States cuts down millions of trees every year to supply the demand for paper shopping bags. And don’t even get us started on plastic bags… But just so you know, the average reusable bag has the lifespan of over seven hundred disposable plastic bags (!) For more motivating facts, check out ReuseThisBag.com
I think most of us can agree that those stylish totes at Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and other metro grocers, are the best way to go {the build-up of paper bags in my pantry alone is enough to ditch ‘em entirely}, but how many of us have purchased a few only to forget them at checkout? Good intentions, but lack ofpractice {and a million other things on our minds}.
Watch this video and you’ll see my substitute for the string-around-the-finger trick. “There’s my reusable bag. Right. Bring it into store. Right…”
Check out http://www.grabyourbags.com for a really good solution to reusable bag amnesia (or what I call Bag-ne-sia)
Comment by reusablesrule — February 10, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
I started using reusable bags almost two years ago and had a hard time remembering them, even when I left them in my car. It took a few times of me having to actually abandon my shopping cart and go back to grab the bags before it became ingrained as a habit. Now there is just no other way for me. I need to get a stack of produce bags too.
Comment by Kate — February 12, 2010 @ 9:29 am
Although my family has an arsenal of reusable grocery and produce bags that we take to the co-op each weekend, we also have several reusable bags that can either be zipped up into a checkbook-size footprint or the stylish Envirosax bags that roll up like an oversized Swiss Cake Roll (i.e. Ho-Ho’s). They’re small enough to fit into a purse or winter coat pocket, so I always have one with me.
Comment by Anne Hansen — February 26, 2010 @ 8:57 pm