How I Trained Myself to Remember to Use the Reusable Shopping Bags
Way back in 2006, I finally got fed up with the massive stockpile of plastic and paper shopping bags I had stuffed – or rather jammed – into one of my lower kitchen cabinets.
As the child of depression era parents, and the grandchild of a grandmother who saved and reused all manner of store-bought packaging, I had trouble with the idea of just throwing all those bags away.
As an environmentalist, the guilt I felt accepting the bags at all was also gnawing at my soul, and had been for years.
Paper bags require trees and cutting trees depletes the planet’s oxygen supply.
Plastic bags, even worse, are made of petroleum – you know – the dinosaur goo that just ruined our beloved Gulf of Mexico after an oil well blew up.