In Ithaca, Greenstar gives 5ยข off if you bring your own bag, but a lot of people still chose paper or plastic.
Aldi's only offers reusable plastic bags for purchase (I forget the cost). People who shop there tend to bring their own bag, or use the boxes the groceries came in, which the store puts out for that purpose. It's easy enough to recycle the boxes once we get home. I seem to remember that practice in US grocery stores half a century ago--before we had plastic bags. The major grocery stores in Australia--which have been pushing reusable bags for years--had a big ad campaign reminding people to keep their bags in their "boot" (trunk). I found I need to have them in the front seat in order to remember to bring them into stores with me. Having functional, inexpensive reusable bags available seems to be only half of what's needed, from what I know of Australia and what the article on Ireland implies. It may well take a tax before we start consistently bringing our own bags. >Not sure if this news already made the list. Could there be a local tax? >Would it make sense here? > >Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags >By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL >The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry >their groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on each >plastic bag grabbed at the register. > >http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?th&emc=th > > >Eric Clay, M.Div., Ph.D. >Community Coach >Shared Journeys, Inc. >832 North Aurora Street >Ithaca, NY 14850 >607-592-6874_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Shared Journeys: Make a World of Difference > > >Our mission is to help individuals, families, organizations and communities >care more effectively for themselves and others who are not like them. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
