Earth Day 2019

     I guess we all need to stop using single use disposable plastic bags but most of us won't and never will give up the convenience of those bags.  A few years ago I started using reusable bags to haul groceries home but as soon as the stores returned the single use disposable bags to the check out counter  I forgot about the reusable bags and grabbed the single use bags every time.  I really never did like the reusable bags.  Oh they held the groceries well enough but I always seemed to forget to bring them into the store with me and would have to return to the car to retrieve them. I never knew how many bags I would need and they always seemed to end up in the bottom of the basket with groceries piled on them.  In general they were a pain in the ass!

     Single use disposable bags have become a nightmare for recycling facilities.  The bags often clog up the sorting  machinery and because of that many curbside recycling programs have stopped accepting  them.  I reuse the bags as trash can liners where they eventually end up in a landfill. That's a really bad ideal because it takes one of those bags up to 1000 years to decompose.  The real reason I use them for that purpose is because I'm too cheap to buy real trash bags.  OK maybe I don't save the Earth every day but at least I'm honest.  During a years time I end up a huge pile of single use disposable bags and once a year I take them to the grocery store to be recycled then my collection of the bags starts all over again