Blog Action Day 2007

Doing my part for the environment today because I love her dearly.

So, kids, unicorns, and others. Don't use plastic bags anymore when you go shopping. Seriously. They plug up our landfills, suffocate small children and animals, and use up precious petroleum. Plus it's sooooo easy to use your own bag. Have you ever supported PBS or your local library? If so, perhaps they gave you a tote bag! This tote bag can be carried along with you to the supermarket, mall, sex shop, etc., and used to carry whatever goodies you picked up that day.

One bag not enough? Don't like PBS or your library? Easily solved! You can buy tote bags year-round at H&M in the US for $7.90 - they're stylish and nicely priced! Envirosax is also a good option for you eco-savvy fashionistas out there. If you find it ridiculous to spend money on a bag you're carrying groceries in, you can find things to reuse around your home. For example, take a smallish rice woven bag and a larger woven rice bag. Cut the handles off the large one and sew them onto the smallish one. Voila! Cheap, very sturdy, reusable bag! It might even have a picture of an elephant on it, which would be really cool. Elephants rock.

The She's A Betty blog has a very comprehensive post on how to cut out plastic bag consumption from your life. I highly recommend it for extra reading. Reusablebags.com unsurprisingly offers a lot of insight into this issue, and the wikipedia post on plastic shopping bags is also worth a glance.

My post is coming a little late in the day, but it's a good promo for MCC's Sustainability Day on October 24. From 12-2 PM that day, tables offering ways students can live a little greener will be set up in (I'm guessing right now) Building 3. Providing no one else's table is talking about this, Cabbages + Kings (literary/arts magazine) will have a table talking about reusable bags! And if this topic is taken, Kris will do some quick research to come up with a different table!

P.S. Native Rochester business Wegmans sells reusable bags for $1 each! Tell your friends! Save the Earth. :)