How does buying green bags help if the plastic bags are already made?
If the plastic bags are already in the store how would you be saving the world?
Read MoreAre shopping totes really better for the environment than brown paper or plastic bags?
With all the craze of celebrities using shopping totes and retail clothing stores that supply them, are shopping totes better for the environment? I’ve looked at these "This is not a plastic bag" totes and I wonder "Aren’t these too made of non-environment friendly materials? If say, one of these shopping totes lasts me a year, how much damage does making this bag do to the environment, versus the damage a year’s worth of plastic bags from the grocery store do to the environment?
Read MoreCan I recycle plastic bags that I get packages in?
I buy a lot of t-shirts (mostly from threadless or woot) and they’re usually shipped in plastic bags. They seem to be thicker than normal grocery bags. Does anyone know if/where I should recycle them? If I can’t, does anyone know of anything I could do with them other than throw them out?
Read MoreCan you put plastic bags in your recycle bin with the plastic bottles?
I am having a dispute with my husband about putting plastic bags from the grocery store in our recycle trash can along with cans and bottles. Does anyone know exactly what you can and cannot put in the blue trash can in San Francisco?
Read MoreHow can larger families reduce their "footprint" and ways to "go green?"?
I feel that it seems way much easier for single people and couples to "go green."
I on the other hand am interested but have a larger family. Our trash waste is about the same, but we recycle as much as we can.
Hand washing dishes and line drying is certianly out of the question for a family as large as mine, even with help. We do however own an energy efficient washer/dryer (although however efficient it is like I always have it on). And when we go grocery shopping, we come home with enough plastic bags to stuff a 13g trashbag and we resuse as many of these as possible and recycle them much as possible.
And because of the size of the family we have two cars, and we live in one of those cities were you have to have a car to get anywhere!
Besides recycling and energy effient washer/dryer what are other ways a large family to to help contribute to the "going green" effort.
PS. for those who are going to suggest using paper bags from the grocery store, it isn’t offered at any of the locations to shop available in my area.