Want to free up some clutter in your closet, drawer, or whereever you keep those annoying plastic bags you get from the store? Do away with them as much as possible by investing in (or making your own) reusable grocery bags.
A few little diddies from the U.S. EPA:
Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled. It costs more to recycle a plastic bag than it does to make one.
Plastic bags make up approx. 10% of debris washed up on U.S. coastlines.
If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week, That's 24 bags a month, That's 288 bags a year, That's 22,176 bags in an average life time, If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time.
You can usually fit more into a reusable bag than a plastic one. And, they are a bit more stylish:)
Fewer plastic bags (that usually aren't recycled anyway) means less waste in your garbage can, which means you could perhaps lessen the amount of garbage you put out for removal. We recently dropped down to the smallest garbage container our community offers....at a savings of $8 a month, which is $96 a year! (Sure, it wasn't just the plastic bags, but a heck of a lot of recycling too. We live in a rather recycle friendly community)
And....look how happy Gavin is that we are producing less garbage:)
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