Posts Tagged ‘groceries’

What I’m doing:
-Using a rain barrel to collect rain from storms so I don’t wave to use any water from the hose when I water plants
-Walking or biking to many places to save energy
-Using resuable shopping bags for groceries
-Using those special flush toilets that save lost of water
-Recycling
-Using the blackle search engine instead of google to save energy

What are you doing to prevent climat change and to save the environment?

I bag groceries as a job and everyday, I see how wasteful people can be when they ask us to double bag plastic, or to bag their groceries in paper and hang them in plastic. Many of them don’t realize how harmful to the environment this can be. Especially using plastic bags. Around here, you cant recycle palstic bags because they jam the recycling machines and we get shipments where entire crates of plastic bags have holes in them and we have to throw them away. I try to encourage customers to use paper as it is re-usuable, can hold more, easier on the environment, etc etc. Next week it is earth week and the store is giving out canvas bags that customers can bring back everytime they shop. Do you ever wonder how your choice of bags can make a difference? What do you think about this? Are there any other suggestions you have on how to help the environment when it comes to grocery bags?
im not saying that double bagging is bad… just the customers that request EVERY bag to be doubled even if it isnt heavy. or asking for multiple bags when there isnt the need for them. And plastic bags are handy to use for waste bins and to be reused but sadly, not many people here do reuse them. they just put them in the trash