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Saturday, February 25, 2006Plastic BagsI'm about to give up. Months ago I discovered my grocery store stopped recycling plastic bags however long ago. Which means who knows how long I've been collecting them to turn them in there for recycling, only for them to be thrown out.I checked with two other stores in the area (I believe) and they aren't recycling plastic bags anymore either. So plastic bags have just been piling up at my place while I have been trying to find a place to recycle them. Today I search the web via Google, trying to find a place to recycle plastic bags. I came across this article. Granted it's from 1998, but it sounds pretty relevant still. Or perhaps even more so now. While this other article gives me some hope for Kroger, or trying to find a place to donate all the plastic bags I have, it really annoys me that grocery stores "push" plastic bags when there's no longer an easy way to deal with them. Especially the Meijer stores around here, which don't even ask "paper or plastic?" anymore. They just start loading plastic bags. And then there are the non-grocery stores that only have plastic. Grr. So I'm going to have to get strict on NO plastic bags when shopping anymore. Keep a couple paper ones in my car for when shopping at non-grocery stores. Not take a bag for just two or three items. And make the baggers re-bag my items if they start using plastic without asking me first. |
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