1)       First, reusable ones are not very sanitary in my opinion.  If you are carrying meat or vegetables in them they can get “polluted” and then get germs on the next thing carried in them like baby cereal.  Yeah, you can try to keep certain ones for only the meat but if the juice leaks out or some food is left in them to rot…..sorry does not sound healthy to me.

2)       Second, I do reuse the plastic bags so they do not go to waste.  I use those plastic bags for all sorts of things.  They are the perfect size for small garbage cans (hence, I do not have to spend money to buy bags), I use them for quick gloves, to line all sorts of things, you name it.  It is rare that I throw one away without being used unless it is the cheapo kind with holes in it.

So sorry to all the tree huggers, I have no intention of using those reusable bags unless someone can show me how to keep the cloth bags clean.  (and do not suggest I throw it in the washing machine because that creates more usage of water, energy and detergent that goes back into the environment not to mention I am taxed enough with the shopping itself and worrying about the kids having clean underwear to really worry about whether my shopping bags are clean so you are only trading in one pollution and aggravation in for another)

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Posted by Arby

Now, now, now...you're not thinking green here. You need to be making your own environmentally friendly soap so that you can wash and reuse cloth shopping bags. You also need to build your own water filtration plant in the back yard so that the wash water does not harm the environment when you finish the load. And speaking of loads, you can leave all worry behind and continue to blithefully use disposable plastic shopping bags if you'll only buy some carbon credits from Al Gore. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go dispose of some used motor oil in my backyard.

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