Plastic Waste

Morning Joe has guests sounding the alarm about plastic pollution.  One guest is warning about grocery bags.  She says that the plastic bags will outlive the pyramids.  She strongly recommended that everyone take the recyclable bags to the grocery store. 

The men on Morning Joe all cringed and said they refused to walk in a grocery store with a cloth grocery bag.  Is it really a sissy thing to do?

Nearly everything is plastic.  Our bottles and jars are plastic.  The garbage bags we buy are plastic.   Even the make up I use that used to be in glass jars has gone plastic.  I thought we got to recycle plastic bottles.  Is this something to fix or is someone pushing the alarm buttons again?  Do you have any plastic warnings?  Plastic tips?  Is it sissy to take a recyclable bag to the grocery?

7 Thoughts to “Plastic”

  1. SlowpokeRodriguez

    I guess my problem is this: if I use recyclable bags, what is Wall-E going to do every day?

  2. Cindy B

    My guy has been taking reusable bags to the grocery store for at least 2 years now. Some places like shoppers take 5 cents off for every cloth bag you use. Also, Abby Lane in Old Town Manassas sells cloth diapers, and great to see college campuses starting to disassociate with bottled water companies, much to the dismay of the Bottled Water Association. Come to the Earth Day (Spring Cleaning Day) in Old Town Manassas on Sat. April 21 from 10 am to 3 pm and learn more. Free shredding of sensitive documents and more.

    Rethink, reuse, recycle.

  3. Thanks for the info Cindy!

  4. RV

    The misses and I recycle our plastic bags every week at Shoppers. Every bank and other organizations including Manassas Neighborhood Services give out cloth tote bags and they work just fine for bringing home groceries.

    1. I bet you get leaves sucked up at your curb too! We are mere country folks over here in the county. I am assuming you’re city folks if you get cloth tote bags. We don’t get jack here.

  5. marinm

    My wife is really good with the reusable bags but I could care less. I feel that if I don’t get the free plastic bags that I am somehow being ripped off at the grocery store. 🙂

    I appreciate y’all that recycle because I don’t have the patience for it.

  6. That is how I feel about disposable diapers. I can’t think of anything that would make me use cloth diapers.

    I also recycle the plastic bags I get. I use them as trash liners. Then I throw them out. It saves me money and I am not buying plastic.

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