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Daily Fit Tip: Bring your own bags

Posted on Oct 25th 2007 6:00AM by Martha Edwards

Filed Under: Daily Fit Tip

There's a simple thing you can do every day to help clean up the environment -- take re-usable, eco-friendly bags grocery shopping with you. Finding one shouldn't be hard -- many stores carry them these days, and they're selling them for cheap to make sure people are using them. When I travelled to Australia early this year, everyone carried these 'green' bags everywhere, and I was really inspired by their efforts.

But the tricky part about re-usable bags, as I've found, is remembering to bring them to the supermarket. For me, I have to make sure you keep them in the trunk of my car -- how do you remember to take your bags when you go shopping?

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j. reid 11-06-2007 @ 1:45PM

i always use my own bags....and yet sometimes i forget to bring them along....most stores will give you a credit of .05 for each bag used.....when i forget them, i request a paper bag....never a plastic one....i recycle the paper bags various ways.....primarily, i use them to wrap and mail packages....i have even used them as gift wrapping paper...i decorate them my self and use them....when my children were little i used to give them paper bags to use for art projects...and then i proudly used them as trash bags....lol....now i rarely forget my nice cloth bags.....i bought most of them in thrift stores or garage sales...that in itself is recycling....ihave about 20...and i never use them all on one shopping trip.....they are also easier to carry into the house than plastic or paper.....

recycle all you can...joann