Comments on: Eliminating Evil Plastic Grocery Bags

By: ali

ali — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:29:43 +0000

@Kalei I use them as garbage bowls, too. Well, at least for the meat trays and things we cannot compost. There’s over a year’s worth of bags accumulated so even if the county bans the plastic bags, and I hope they do, we’d probably still have garbage bags for over a year!

The crocheting is going well so far. I should be putting up some pics later.

By: Kalei

Kalei — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:18:27 +0000

Welcome to the “closet stuffed with plastic grocery bags” club! I have the hardest time throwing those things away. But I try to use them as much as possible. My favorite use is using them as a “garbage bowl” when cooking — you know, like Rachel Ray! Instead of using an extra bowl that I have to wash, I use a grocery bag to put all my throw-away stuff like vegetable ends, chicken trays, vegetable peels, etc. I know it’s not really recycling, but at least it gets used a second time. I like the crochet idea. I picked up crocheting again this last winter. Managed to actually finish one scarf. Make that one UGLY scarf! haha

By: ali

ali — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:29:20 +0000

@Andrew Cooper I have the same problem. The Chico Bags have a clip on them but I don’t know about keeping ten or more of them clipped to my purse!

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:38:44 +0000

They are convenient as well as a nuisance, we at least give them other lives around our house. We bought a kitchen trash can just the right size to use the grocery bags for the kitchen trash. But as less than half our household waste goes into the trash (we recycle everything the county will take) the trash doesn’t use as many as we bring home.

Now if I could just remember to take a reusable bag into the market when shopping…

By: ali

ali — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:51:59 +0000

@barbara Thanks! Surprisingly, it wasn’t too hard with all the great tutorials and “how to” videos on the net. I went through a ball of plarn the other day and did a few rows of a tote bag. It’s definitely easier to crochet with yarn but I’m happy to re-purpose would be trash into something creative and useful.

@pehea ‘oe The natural food places here are slowly discontinuing the use of plastic bags all together. The general shopping public is slowly catching on and most grocery stores offer cheap reusable bags now but I just needed to get rid of my backlog of saved plastic bags.

By: pehea 'oe?

pehea 'oe? — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:04:29 +0000

That’s an excellent reuse of bags. People looks at us strange when we refuse bags.

By: barbara

barbara — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:13:44 +0000

yay you! It’s just like riding a bike, Ali. You’ll figure it out in no time.
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