I recently wrote about my accumulation of dozens of plastic supermarket bags and how I rarely think to reuse them at subsequent supermarket trips.
No longer.
Last night, I drew a list and visited Market Basket with 11 plastic bags in hand; these were the bags I’d received from my last trip and never threw in a larger garbage bag where all my plastic bags are kept.
After wheeling the cart through the aisles and standing in the checkout line, I showed the bag girl my 11 bags and kindly asked she use them.
“Oh man,” she sighed to herself.
Despite spending more money on more groceries this time than last time, she only stuffed 5 plastic bags, not 11. Could it be becauseshe bagged a carton of OJ, a carton of milk, and assorted small food items in one bag rather than the prior bagger who put the milk and OJ in their own bags?
Moreover, what did she do with the leftover 6 plastic bags? She gave them back to me. I wasn’t about to protest and have her keep my used bags, or she’d likely toss them but the point remains: Why try to reuse a store’s bags when the store doesn’t provide a receptacle or other means of bag collection?
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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I just came across your entry and it’s funny – there’s a Market Basket near where I live, and they actually do have a receptacle for bag recycling – something put in place mostly because people were starting to complain.
Nowadays I use the cloth ones they sell, because those plastic ones are so flimsy anyway.
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