Fake Plastic Fish: Store Report: Struggling with plastic at Safeway

November 22, 2007
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I’ve talked again and again about how to avoid the whole paper or plastic quandary by bringing your own canvas bags for packing your groceries and by choosing to recycle as much plastic as possible. But I’ve never really stopped to think about how many items in the grocery store–from the obvious plastic bags to the way the butcher wraps freshly cut meat–contribute to our collective plastic consumption.

For an eye-opening look at just how plastic food shopping can me, check out this post from Fake Plastic Fish: Store Report: Struggling with plastic at Safeway

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One Response to Fake Plastic Fish: Store Report: Struggling with plastic at Safeway

  1. Daisy on November 23, 2007 at 4:04 am

    We buy a lot of produce, and I’m not sure how effective we’d be with all of it simply in the cart. It’s certainly worth a try. I do like bringing my own bag shopping and saving the trouble (and raw materials) of getting a store bag.