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chomiji ([personal profile] chomiji) wrote in [personal profile] jazzy_dave 2015-10-06 12:57 am (UTC)

Several local jurisdictions charge for plastic shopping bags. Sadly, this does not seem to have slowed down a lot of people: they still use the store-supplied plastic bags despite the 5-cent (per bag) charge.

Whole Foods (a/k/a Whole Paycheck) and some other markets will only give you paper bags, which I like for our mixed paper recycling, as an alternative to the plastic. We mostly use our own, a motley collection at this point. I also generally carry two of the earlier version of these guys in my purse wherever I go.

Our town recycles many types of plastics, but not everything is marked. No place that I know of recycles polystyrene, which makes up lots of carryout/takeaway containers as well as the packing peanuts. Many of the companies from whom I order things use air-pacs (which often are recyclable, the same as plastic shopping bags) or cornstarch peanuts instead (compostable). But packing materials for electronics etc. are a terrible problem because very little of it is marked with the plastic type.


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