There was a time when packing a grocery bag properly was common sense. Those days are long gone. Grocery store cashiers, if they pack grocery bags at all, today are accustomed to packing three or four items in a plastic bag and depositing bag upon bag in the customer’s shopping cart. These plastic grocery bags […]
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When you visit your grocery store, do you ask for plastic or paper? Yellow paper grocery bags are not as popular as they once were, but they are still used by grocery stores and other businesses as well. When you get them home, what do you do with your paper grocery? An average brown paper […]
If you’re anything like me, you always find yourself with a huge pile of plastic bags. It is not, not that the groceries are often shopped. Every time I visit a store, I end up taking home extra plastic bags. Even if I only buy one, it ends up inside a plastic bag. But I […]
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In 2009, consumers made an average of 2.1 trips to the grocery store each week, says the Food Marketing Institute. That’s 109 shopping trips per year. If each shopping trip resulted in four plastic or paper grocery bags, this would equate to 436 grocery bags needing disposal or recycling per person years. Note that the […]