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You can use plastic food containers to store and freeze food. Photo by Suzanne Waring.
Buying wisely also means looking at the
container. Purchasing containers made of
materials other than plastic sends a pow-
erful message to food manufacturers that
the general public will pay more to avoid
single-use plastic.
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When I was in the Netherlands, I saw
a young man rush past our touring group.
A few minutes later I saw him going back
the other direction. Then I saw him going
in the first direction, but this time he had a
shopping bag. Observing this young man’s
resolve gave me the mindset that I should
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people carried their own grocery bags. One
clerk even told me that, at the most, only 5
percent of the store’s customers carry their
own bags.
Using our own shopping bags is one of
the easiest ways to reduce the use of plastic.
If you routinely carry bags into the grocery
store, take the next step and carry them into
other retail stores.
PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES
My husband and I avoid using plastic
water bottles at all costs. We carry our
own cups and use city water, which, if the
reports are correct, is better for us anyway.
Plastic isn’t going away, but we can do
much to eliminate single-use plastic by
avoiding it or finding new ways to reuse it. ISI
MY
also make the effort to use cloth reusable BROTHER’S
shopping bags. KEEPER
If we don’t have our own bags when we Submitted by Julie
are traveling in Canada, we are charged for Hollar-Brantley
each plastic bag. Some grocery stores don’t One day a zookeeper noticed that a
even offer plastic or paper bags, instead monkey was reading two books— The
offering their discarded cardboard boxes Bible and Darwin’s Origin of Species.
for customers to pack their groceries into. Surprised, he asked the monkey,
I launder my shopping bags periodi- “Why are you reading both of those
cally and store them in my car. I recently books?”
conducted a very unscientific survey. While “Well”, said the monkey, “I just
my husband was checking our groceries, I wanted to know if I was my brother’s
surveyed others who were also checking keeper or my keeper’s brother.” ISI
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