Gail Page will never be allowed to serve on the city Solid Waste Committee, since she wants to find solutions rather than toe the official line. I’m one of the people she talks about who forgets their reusable bags in the car, but since I often carpool to the grocery my car may be at home instead of the store lot when I think of them. I do repair worn spots in reusable bags with duct tape, ironically reusable bags often aren’t recyclable. Once a local big box store offered a reusable bag free with an order of a certain size. After they bagged my order and determined it was the proper size, they got out a reusable bag, and gave it to me in a plastic bag!
My sister is a PhD scientist who is often skeptical of claims made by climate and environment activists, but her parents grew up during the Great Depression so she learned not to waste anything. She uses a string bag for light shopping which she can stuff in a pants pocket. Or she may bring a backpack if she walked to the store a mile away, saving more petroleum than months of plastic bags. She used to live in a city known worldwide for environmental consciousness, where grocery stores would rebate 2 cents for every bag you provided, but you couldn’t pay until the order was completely bagged and the number of bags used was known.
Roy Schweiker
Concord