Plastic Reduction for Dummies…Taming the Beast
Tuesday afternoon, spending some quality time eying my trash, and what do I notice? A lot of plastic bags that could have had a second use if I had not beast mastered them open. Seriously…am I that hungry that I can’t undo the twist tie? Do I need to shred the bag open with my teeth to get to the tortillas? I think I could work the extra 4 seconds into my schedule to actually locate the zipper lock at the top of the bag and not harpoon through the side. Since we have given up plastic grocery bags and plastic produce bags, all other plastic bags coming in the form of food packaging are at a premium in our house and I have not been giving them their due respect. From here on out I vow to actually open packages like a human being as to preserve their integrity and subsequently my own dignity. (Any chocolate covered items are exempt from this vow. I will continue to use whichever instrument, machine or body part gets the chocolaty goodness into my pie hole the fastest.)
haha, I do the same thing. Plastic bags are very much at a premium, but yet, I still manage to mangle my fair share of bags.
Thought about reusing the cereal bags just the other day, then had my husband tell me that I could not solve the world’s plastic problems by hording all of them. “What are you planning on doing with them?” he asked. I did not have a good answer, ‘cuz I had not thought of any yet. Note to myself: figure out excuses first before hording trash.