HELPING TO STOP PLASTIC AND PAPER BAGS
You get what you pay for – cheap bags quickly end up in the waste basket or sitting in a closet, contributing to more wasteful consumption.
People are carrying reusable bags everywhere now. Not surprisingly, big-corporate America has jumped on the bandwagon, offering cheap or free reusable shopping bags as a badge of being green.
Unfortunately cheap reusable shopping bags are often more of a marketing ploy than a great choice for the environment. The real heavy lifting required from retailers to put a dent in consumption – like charging for plastic bags and retraining checkout staff to ask for reusable bags – takes far more work than offering a cheap bag made of plastic. Digging a little deeper reveals that many reusable bags are nothing more than another example of green-washing.
