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A friend of mine recently visited his son in Guatamala. He called me when he got back and said, "I thought of you while I was there. Plastic bags and bottles were everywhere. It was disgusting. They have a very poor sanitation system."
He probably thought of me because for several years now I've been preaching about the proliferation of garbage bags to anyone who will listen.
Did you know that the plastic industry produces 4 to 5 trillion bags a year. Trillion. That's a million million. Most of these end up in landfills. Or on the land. (This number came from the WorldWatch Institute and from this article.)
For the past two Christmases, my family has given all of our family and friends cloth bags with cute pictures drawn and painted by my kids. We also gave them a letter explaining our reasons for the gift and environmental changes we've made over the past year. (We figure if we've made 10 or 20, they could use our bags...)
Considering our kids were 3 and 5 when we started making the bags, the artwork turned out pretty cute. The first year our bags read: Save our trees, please. The second year: Save the earth. Any suggestions for this year?
We now have about 12 cloth bags lying around the house and in the trunks of our cars. I also bought this giant, plastic tote thing that folds out into a "box" about 2' x 2' . (That one really freaks out the bagger at Shoprite.) Our family's rules of thumb are if you can carry it in your hand(s), say no to a bag. If you can't carry it in your hands, carry it in your own bag.
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