The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for January 10, 2021

How knowledge changes! When this comic was written, canvas bags were thought to be better than plastic. Today, people know that contaminated canvas bags are worse for us than plastic.

I use my own reusable bags all the time. Only a few are canvas. You have to take your own bags to Aldi and Target takes 4 or 5 cents off per bag you use. For a while Kroger wouldn’t use my own bags because of the pandemic. The cashiers said some people brought in stinking bags smelling like cat pee and other things. I wouldn’t blame them for refusing them at any time. I have two sets of bags. One set has two insulated bags I use when I’m buying frozen or cold food.

I think I found it….

My bags are cotton, I have several from Publix that I bought. A couple stores charge a small price for bags. We sometimes forget to bring them so we have a lot of plastic ones to take to recycle in a few months.

Well, Timmy… Penny’s number 1 interest is saving the Penny…!

It’s “reuse” AND “reduce”. He’s actually doing the right thing!

Sometimes, when I have only one or two items. I will refuse a bag. That saves the store some money and keeps me from adding another bag to my mounting supply. I do use those plastic bags for garbage, but there are so many, now that most places will not allow you to use the cloth ones. Fortunately, there is one store that has a place to put all those bags for recycling. Most of the ones I get will go there. Also, I stopped using plastic straws many years ago. Those are probably more troublesome for the environment than the plastic bags though I admit that you will not find plastic straws caught in a tree blowing in the wind.

They’re not wrong. How is a plastic garbage bag any better than a plastic grocery bag? And it didn’t kill a tree.

Before the pandemic, when it looked like the plastic grocery bags were going to be banned, we discovered how many bread wrappers, fresh produce bags, TP pack outer wrappers, and all sorts of other bags we get each week. We take our reusable grocery bags to the store and still have plenty of plastic bags and wrappers to put the garbage in.

Baxton, Reminder ?

wow….finally got it….that was a tuff one…..

Reusable tissues would be called hankies or handkerchiefs. But would require laundering.

My city does blue-bag recycling, so the blue plastic bags are useful, and if we didn’t get them from the supermarket we’d have to buy blue bags. Yes, I do have reusable bags for Aldi.

a clue for the Find It?

Great story!