le 14 novembre Within the past few years, the Rwandan government has banned the use of plastic bags. When crossing its borders, officials actually have the right to check through your things to see if you’re carrying any. Why so strict? Parts of Europe are charging patrons for their plastic bags, what is the big fuss here? Rwanda decided to go to drastic measures to prevent its environment, which up until this law was passed was beginning to truly suffer.
Going to market, each person in Rwanda grabs tote bags and re-usable grocery bags and baskets – anything they can carry food in. In my family, we’ve been using cloth grocery bags for a few years, and when we do have to take plastic bags, we re-use them. (Round of applause, Mom.)
My challenge to you: take at least one re-usable grocery bag with you for your weekly trip to Stop and Shop. If you’re only getting one or two things at CVS and you don’t have your bag on you just take your things by hand and do without the bag. Sadly, it’s a part of our culture to not think about wastefully using plastic bags. Just by using even one recyclable bag, it really goes a long way.
We have a big stack of reusable bags that I generally remember to take into S&S, however I recently learned that a number of them were recalled due to excessive lead content.... Go figure!! Thanks for the reminded to go "green."
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