GreenJean

We should have seen this coming - after months of carrying our own bags to the grocery store, farmer’s market and bookstore, our special IKEA plastic bag holding device is empty. It used to overflow regularly.

It’s good and I feel happy to have made a visible change in my consumption. But what will we do when we empty our garbage? Buying plastic bags seems silly and counter productive.

I remember when there were no plastic bags from the store, and we used brown paper bags for garbage. Damp garbage caused structural failure more than once. The point is irrelevant, because we don’t have any brown paper grocery bags, nor do we want to start bringing them home.

Time to search for a solution.