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Enviro Rant #2 - Reusable shopping bags

Australia seems to be one of the leaders of shoppers who use reusable shopping bags. Over half of the customers I see at the supermarket use these bags. Simple... everytime you go grocery shopping, you bring these bags with you. Australia still uses approx. 7 BILLION plastic bags each year for 20 million people... can you imagine what North America uses? Well, we need to start changing attitudes in Canada (and USA) towards this waste problem. It's hard to believe a country as wasteful as Australia is ahead of us on this....

I encourage everyone to make it a habit to bring some sort of reusable bag each time you go shopping. You could really reuse and take one of your backpacks or duffel bags... I know everyone probably has one or two kicking around they don't use. Keep it in your car.. or better yet.. walk or bike to the grocery store with it.

And one more thing... do you really need to bag those vegetables? I've shopped for several years now without using any bags for my veges and fruit. It's not much more convenient, or even more sanitary.. you're going to wash them all anyways.

That's my enviro rant. Back to my regularly schedule triathlon updates.

posted by Greg @ 1/11/2007