According to the Green Peace website, plastic pollution is killing our marine life. 30% of the world’s turtles and 90% of seabird species have now ingested plastic debris. One of the serious offenders is plastic bags. Australians use around 4 billion plastic bags every year – that’s a whopping 10 million or so each day. An estimated 50 million of these end up in our waterways and ocean.
Brown Paper Bags for Grocery Shopping
Question? Does that mean they have autopsied 30% of the world’s turtles and 90% of seabird species to gather these facts? I doubt it, but it’s probably a reasonable guess based on the number of sea life to ratio of plastic bags discarded! [rolling eyes]
Enter – Again – Brown Paper Bags
After reading a comment/statement by a friend on Facebook, it got me thinking. Why can’t we go back to the old brown paper bags to pack and take your grocery shopping home in???
#BringBackTheBag-BrownPaperBags
Back in the days of grocery shopping, obviously before the plastic bag, we would take home the shopping in brown paper bags. These got banned as there were too many trees required to carry home our groceries. Instead the world decided to kill off the marine life as an alternative option. Well, not that they knew this at the time.
Now we have recyclable brown paper, not harming any trees or wildlife in the production, that we could quite easily offer this service to customers as an option for packing groceries at the checkout. Yes? Look what I found? They still make them!!! A brown paper bag for groceries!
Yes, they sometimes fell apart when they were packed too heavy – but so do/did the plastic ones. Handles broke and groceries dropped on the ground. This hasn’t changed. The only diff is that the brown paper bags struggle to hold damp groceries like frozen or cold goodies that showed signs of condensation due to temperature differences.
#BringBackTheBag-BrownPaperBags
Brown paper bags can be reused, recycled, and they will quickly disintegrate if left in the waste, saving the environment from plastic waste. the reuse of brown paper bags is actually limitless, one of which is cut out some eyes, nose, mouth and stick it on your Voldemort (she who shall not be named!) koz it would certainly take on a much better appearance. Oh I digress!
I’d like you to join me in the rally for #BringBackTheBag-BrownPaperBag and let’s get this movement moving!