Hit my 100th day of bringing my own bags to the grocery store and it totally surprised me

I kept a little tally on my phone fridge calendar and yesterday I hit exactly 100 days in a row of remembering my reusable bags. I never thought that number would mean anything to me but seeing it made me realize how many plastic bags I used to go through without even thinking. What convinced me to change was that video of a turtle with a straw stuck in its nose... I know it's cliché but that image just got stuck in my head. Now every time I grab my bags from the car I feel like I'm actually doing something small that adds up. Has anyone else tracked a habit like this and gotten surprised by the total?

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finleyl559d ago

Did you read that piece in the Times about how those thin plastic bags can't actually be recycled through most curbside programs? I thought I was doing okay but then learned they just end up in the landfill anyway.

james_butler9d ago

Yeah that Times piece was a real bummer @finleyl55. I used to be all proud of myself shoving those nasty thin produce bags into the store's recycling bin thinking I was saving the planet. Turns out they just gum up the machines at the plant and most get tossed out anyway. So now I basically have a cabinet full of them under the sink for "future use" that never comes. It's like a secret landfill in my own kitchen.