START GREEN BAGGING IT TODAY

Organic grocey stores like Whole Food vowed to get rid of all plastic grovery bags by Earth Day in 2008.  Now everyone else is joining in for the cause.  Most major drug and grocery stores, in Southern California, now sell their own fiber woven bags.  The retailers are encouraging the shoppers to bring their shopping bags with them every time they do their shopping.  Last month, the governor of California announced that shoppers will not have to pay for plastic and paper shopping bags, but should purchase the eco-friendly bags instead to save the environment, while saving their money.  Eco-friendly shopping bags range anywhere from .99 to $1.99 per bag.  Grovery stores will start to charge up to .25 per plastic or paper shopping bag.  I purchased my eco-friendly bags from my friendly neighborhood, Gelson’s about 3 months ago.  We keep them in the trunk of the car and always use them while grocery shopping.

WHY WE SHOULD NOT USE PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS ANYMORE

Join in and save our planet today.  Plastic bags are petroleum based and they fill landfills, harm nature and litter our communities. Since it can take more than 1,000 years for a plastic bag to break down in a landfill, polymers of every single plastic bag ever produced still exist on our planet. As they break down, plastic bags go through photodegradation—breaking down into small toxic particles that contaminate both soil and water, and end up entering the food chain when animals accidentally ingest them. It takes roughly 430,000 gallons of crude oil to produce 100 million plastic bags, and in the U.S. alone, about 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year (and only 0.6 % of them are recycled).

Go Green!