Plastic Bags
Recycling the waste that is created as a consumer is important, but diverting or not creating the waste is just as important to attaining more sustainable environment. One of the easiest ways to reduce your impact on the environment is to use reusable bags. Retailers are offering inexpensive options to the traditional disposable bag to encourage customers to reduce the plastic consumed at their stores.
Retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart offer reusable bags for as low as $.99. The reusable bags themselves are made of 30% recycled materials, and over one-year a single $.99 bag can divert up to 50 disposable bags from being consumed.
Wal-Mart Reduces Waste with Sale of Reusable Bags
Wal-Mart offers customers $1 reusable bags diverting the demand for up to 50 disposable bags over the lifetime of the reusable bag. The corporate goal is to reduce the consumption of plastic bags in each of their stores globally by an average of 33% by the year 2013.
How to Reuse a Plastic Bag
When at all possible remember your reusable bag when you shop at your local retailer, but inevitably there will come the occasion when you forget your reusable bag and are forced to leave the store with a plastic bag. Instead of throwing the plastic bag in the trash you can either recycle your plastic bag or reuse the bag for another purpose. These are some suggestions on how you can reuse your plastic bags.
