I’ve just starting using the neatest new tool. I’m the kind of person that goes to the grocery store about every third day. I get a few things and then face that difficult decision... paper or plastic? Well, I’ve read all about it. Paper is from trees and we can grow more trees and plastic bags can be reused to make fluffy cloth but either way it’s such a waste of resources to use so many of either kind.
My family is great at recycling! We reuse bags of either kind and of every size but when you look at the huge collection we get in a month and multiply that by the number of shoppers in just the United States, its way too many bags!
We’ve make a decent effort to go back to the store with previously attained bags and we’ve tried using those cloth bags that some stores sell for that purpose. But either the cloth bag was misshapen (it would work great for my library books but not for random shapes of grocery items) or too small or not strong enough.
Last week I found a bag that is revolutionizing my shopping experience. It works so well and looks so good my husband even uses one now.
This bag unfolds to virtually line the shopping cart (keeps the foods that you’re taking into your kitchen off of the dirty cart surfaces) and holds onto the grid wall of the cart to stay open while you shop. When it’s checkout time they can just put your purchased items back in the cart and you can take them to your car.
There’s no need for those odd-shaped cartons the Big Box Stores give you (to recycle for them) to carry your purchases. There’s no need to take multiple trips from the car to the house because my new bag comfortably holds several plastic bags worth of items. The claim is it will hold 40 pounds but most of us won’t be carrying that large a load anyway. Best of all, we’re not going to be contributing to the landfills or the recycle bins that fill up with bags from our shopping trips.
Paper or plastic? I say, "Neither, I have a Shopping Cart Tote."
Keep an eye on my web site – if I can get in touch with the distributor, I’m going to stock them on my web page too! It’s the right thing to do. And don’t you think the Good Mood Foods will work even better if we know we are helping save Mother Earth? So if I do make this next step, I’ll just add to my mantra to have this third part: Eat Right, Exercise Regularly and Respect Earth’s Resources! [Editor's note: Cool acronym - ERERRER]
Alice Lockridge,
Physical Activity expert, MS PhysEd, Exercise Physiologist