Things to Do Without: Plastic Bags

Lose the habit of buying plastic bags to store food in. Try using reusable containers or reusing and washing plastic already in your house instead. We already have so much plastic coming into our homes, simply resuse those bags. Rinse them out quick, dry them, then store them. Some sources of plastic bags at home include: bread bags, tortilla bags, and cereal box inserts. Plastic is such a large part of our garbage - think of how you can avoid it before buying it and consider how you can resuse it before throwing it out!

Did you know: Factories around the world made 4-5 trillion plastic bags 2002. Even weighing a few ounces each, that is a lot of trash.

Fun thing to do: about a million plastic bags are consumed /minute. Check out this counter to see where we are so far this year.

Did you know: Prior to 1957 we had no plastic bags in our homes for sandwiches, fruit, etc. If we could do it then, we can eliminate it now!

And always remember to compost!