When you bought groceries in the '50's and early 60's,
they were packed in sturdy paper bags.
These bags were then used as trash bags that,
when full, were taken outside to metal trash cans.
(I can still hear the sound of the metal cans on trash day!)
Milk and soda came in returnable glass bottles that never made their way to the trash
because you could get money for returning them!
There was no plastic.
No Styrofoam.
Until there was.
And now the earth is drowning in plastic.
In those short 50 or so years,
drowning in plastic.
So...
Paper grocery bags?
Insist on it.
Cloth?
Even better.
Paper trash bags?
Why not?
Be creative -
small steps for mankind and womankind and children kind.
The Earth will survive human recklessness,
but humans won't.
Paper is a renewable resource, and with the return of the versatile Hemp plant, there is even more reason to have faith in paper.