I took my own advice from yesterday and put my reusable bags in my car. At least I grabbed the ones I could find. I'm missing my official Hy-Vee sanctioned bags that I bought. My free ones from KFRX and Super Scoopers will do. I got the latter bag about four years ago if my memory serves me correctly, way before they were popular.
What about all the plastic bags that I end up taking home with me? Are they destined to spend eternity rotting in some landfill? Well, yeah but at least I'll reuse them again. Observe:
When I was buying household items for my new apartment, I ended up with this plastic bag holder/dispenser. You place bags in the top and pull them out the bottom. They're great for lining small trash cans or wrapping up lunches to take to school. Taking lunch to school is also a good and green option for the broke college student such as myself. It's usually way cheaper to bring something from home than buying fast food. And with fast food, you will likely throw away the burger wrapper, fry box, drink cup, lid, straw, straw wrapper, tray liner, ketchup packets, and napkins. Those are a lot of items ending up at the dump.I digress again. Here's another shot of my killer bag dispenser:
Many customers I encounter at Hy-Vee say they prefer paper sacks for their recycling. Newspapers fit in them well and can be recycled on the spot. That reminds me, I need to actually find my closest recycling site. Stay tuned for that.
Since I mentioned waste associated with fast food, it made me think of food containers in general. Consider this:
- For every $11 Americans spend on food, $1 goes to packaging.
- Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into dumps each year
"Recycling facts." Oberlin College Resource Conservation Team. 2001. Web. 2 December 2010.
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