This blog is at least making one person plastic bag aware: My wife.
We love to shop at Whole Foods for lots of reason. Great cheese and fresh produce, and they give you a nickle back for bringing your reusable bag. They were one of the first grocery stores to promote reusable bags and they’ve gone to great length to get rid of plastic bags at check out. But…
Today, my wife went to Whole Foods. She returned with 4 reusable bags brimming with groceries. She also realized she had returned with 6 plastic bags.
The Whole Foods she went to doesn’t have plastic grocery bags (Does any Whole Foods grocery store have them, now?). So where did the plastic bags come from? Well, while there aren’t any plastic bags at checkout, they’re still available throughout the store and people still pick them up an use them with thinking. Whole Foods still makes plastic bags available for produce, fruit and other assorted groceries.
So while you may not be able to get those plastic bags at checkout, anymore, they’re readily available throughout the store.
I don’t have a solution for this, but it’s a great example of how pervasive plastic bags are in society. The grocer might not be giving them to you at checkout, but they haven’t completely removed them from their stores.
Quite the jump in my plastic bag footprint, today: 15
