Posts Tagged ‘recycle’

Stop and Shop’s Intuition

Those of you who have been following my blog will have read an earlier anecdote in this category, (Green Bionics), about the lowly plastic carrier bag.

A few days ago, I received an email from Stop and Shop supermarket chain, which offered me a free reusable canvas shopping bag for simply logging into my online account. I was taken aback because I had thought about contacting Stop and Shop in regards to handing out free bags to their loyal customers. My aim was to encourage more people to use these bags instead of the environmentally un-friendly plastic ones.

It seems that this promotion is being run in conjunction with Cancer Awareness and the bags are pink with the ribbon logo. So this action by Stop and Shop, in my mind has a double effect and I have to give them props for that.

Check out the cool bag and then check out your local supermarket and make certain that they are doing their bit towards making our environment cleaner.

To Plastic Bag or Not to Plastic Bag

The 2000’s are swiftly becoming a decade of complete and utter “green” awareness gluttonous overload – and rightly so, in my opinion. In the endeavor to save our planet from waste and pollution, I’d rather err on the side of over- aggression rather than palatable apathy. It’s a bit like taking care of a baby. Is there a point where you can be too careful or where being too careful will harm the infant? Probably not.

So amidst all the “green” madness stands the lowly plastic bag. People just love the things. Why is beyond me. Is it convenience, apathy or just plain ignorance? It’s kind of hard to tell and highly likely to be a mixture of all three aspects.

Whilst out shopping, I will routinely see other shoppers with their canvas bags – avoiding the plastic bags like the plague. Then I will see others stuffing groceries into the plastic bags like they grow on trees and are the best thing since sliced bread. I wonder though. Why do these supermarkets that encourage you to buy the re-usable canvas bags even offer the “disposable” plastic ones? Why the fork-tongued marketing? The buck has to stop somewhere.

It’s very simple. Plastic bags are a pain to recycle and cost so much to even take on such a task, that no right-minded factory or business would even attempt such a project. Seems to me that it would make a lot more sense to just stop making the silly things. Each supermarket should give all loyal customers up to three canvas bags per family to get the ball rolling and get shot of all the plastic ones. Done. Nice and easy. Clean and simple.

Why not contact your local supermarket with the suggestion? Etablog would be interested in starting a petition based on our reader support. Let us know if you are interested in this scheme and we can get something started.

Green Bionics

Green is the world’s hot topic and deserves this spot on anyone’s social commentary blog. EtaBlog will show you what the average human being is doing to make a positive difference for the environment. Green Bionics is all about how you can make your life “greener” in small ways that can add up and make a tremendous impact on our world.