Plastic? Hah! We don’t need your stinking plastic
Published by Seamus Ford August 6th, 2008 in Commentary, Plastic Reduction, Shopping.
The next time you make a purchase and the clerk blindly puts your 2 item purchase in a bag…….REFUSE. More over educate them. Tell them that you do not want to take a bag that is going get caught in a breeze and wind up decorating an inner city tree this winter. Tell them that you don’t want to choke a seagull. Tell them that you don’t want to clog the sewer at the end of you street and cause a flood.
Tell them that you don’t want a bag because it is simply not required, especially when the milk jug you just purchased already has a handle.
Come on! How asleep are we that we accept a bag for a small single purchase that already comes shrouded in plastic.
While you are at it, there in line make a scene. Take a minute and educate all the other people in line with you and invite them not to take a bag if they don’t need one.
There is a pelican in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere who will owe you one.
This website is for you!
http://www.morsbags.com/
I am with you Seamus! I’m loving my Flip and Tumble reusable bags which I use not only at the supermarket but in all stores, CVS, Staples, etc. The clerks think I am nuts but I don’t care. Say no to plastic.
I was recently in Hawaii for vacation and while I was there we decided to go on a deep sea fishing cruise. ON the boat I noticed a sign saying that all garbage must be shredded before being dumped in to the water. Suprised I asked the captain if the sign was out of date… he said he wished it was but it wasent. he assured that he would never dump his garbage . Then he told me something even more shocking, that any ship three or more miles out from shore could dump all the garbage they wanted, because who wants to bring all that garbage back to port. Right? it needs to stop!!
heres a site that can tell you more about the dumping http://www.surfrider.org/a-z/cruise.asp