Another great invention to negate the need to use plastic – The Onya keyring bag. A very lightweight, durable bag that folds up into a tiny pouch on your keyring.
What’s more they come in a complete range of colours so you can match to your outfit and be super trendy as well!
OK – onya bike and get over to their web page to order yours!!
OK, here’s an admission – after all my preaching here about abolishing plastic bags, I originally still found myself in the supermarket without my re-usable Canvas bag – and added more plastic waste to the world!! However, now many supermarkets are not stocking bags we need to get ourselves organised. I personally have probably over 50 re-usable bags (ranging from Ikea to Carrefour to my faithful Canvas bag).
First big help is once you have emptied the shopping at home – immediately refold the bags and return to the car – ready for the next shopping trip.
Again I would arrive at the supermarket and wander in to the shop on autopilot – leaving the bags in the car. So when I reached the cashier – I’m needing to buy MORE re-usable bags. WRONG.. Now I just load all the shopping back into my trolley, wheel it to the car and sort all my shopping into my re-usables at the car. All very organised for freezer, pantry, fridge etc and no extra cost in bags – SORTED.
What happens if you only buy enough for a small basket which you can’t take to the car? Go shopping less often and buy for a month – using a trolley!!
Couldn’t be easier!!
After setting up this blog and promoting the damage and ongoing havoc created by widespread dumping of plastic bags for flora; fauna and the animal world – I am obviously ecstatic to see the sudden avalanche of large retail outlet chains throughout world removing their free supply of plastic and promoting re-usable (canvas!!) bags.
However, I don’t think myself or any of you are naive enough to really believe this is being done for the good of the planet. The savings for these large supermarket chains will be significant I am sure. One massice Supermarket chain (Carrefour) here in Spain and France is running extensive TV campaigns asking their clients to help them in their quest to rid the world of the Plastic Bag – impressive!!
But whatever the motive – the plastic bag is in demise and we should be happy. See my next post on how to cope with a trolley full of groceries and no free bags (without creating a stock pile of re-usable bags at home!!)
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