Miss 604’s latest flickr pic reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about for a while now.
With the trend towards canvas and reusable bags for groceries and assorted shoppingness, is it really better for the planet?
I mean, we already have all these plastic bag plants set up and producing the stuff we’re using at WalMart, The Bay, Canadian Tire etc. Now that we’ve decided it’s trendy, fashionable and sensible to switch over to canvas, how many manufacturing plants are going to have to be built to sate our need for reusable baggage? And are the gasses and crap spewed by these canvas bag makers any better for dear Mother Nature than the plastic people?
If you’re making the switch, good for you. But don’t think you need just one canvas bag - you need lots. There’s trendy bags coming out all the time. That generic green Save-On bag won’t cut it next season, oh no! So you’ll need a new one.
And God forbid you might forget your bags. If that happens, instead of being a bad plastic bag person, you get another canvas one, of course. Pretty soon you have 45 canvas bags filling up your broom closet.
So - do we really need canvas bags, or is the status quo good to go?
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We like our Safeway Bags but we always forget them at home, or our grocery trips are planned last-minute. I really like the tiny globalmind one I got cause it’s a little nylon pouch that I toss in my purse (it’s smaller than my wallet) and basically forget about til I make a purchase somewhere… and it was only 99 cents.