I leave it in the car…every… time…
Gotta remember to put them back in the car after bringing groceries into the house though. Also what about second car?
Just put the second car in a bag. Then it’s handy when you go shopping.
Just need to have enough bags to support a slow “when you get to it” rotation. Bags stay in trunk (you might need to double the number of bags you have to support a second vehicle), then grab a bag of bags when going shopping, fill bags at store, empty and full ones go in trunk when leaving store, full bags go inside to wherever is most convenient, then when they are empty, place them near the door. Then, on some trip to the car, remember to grab the bags by the door and stick them into the trunk and you’ve completed one cycle for those bags.
If they get dirty, put them near the laundry instead of the door and either mix them in with another load of laundry or do them separately if you’re getting that many bags dirty often enough to justify a load of bags. If they aren’t specifically dirty, they should be fine. They aren’t like clothes where you’re slowly sweating and getting skin oils into them so need to wash them on the regular. Just turn them inside out to make sure the bits of onion skin all get washed out.
How do we know if these are actually a good thing for the environment? It seems like it’s at least possible the excess waste offsets the benefit.
It’s a complex question to answer. But, basically reusable plastic > reusable cotton > plastic > paper
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best/
I know it’s obvious, but shouldn’t it be: reusable plastic > reusable cotton > single-use plastic > paper
Oh, yes. That is more specific and better communicates the list.
If you forget the bag, go home and fetch it.
This gives you a while to be annoyed and frustrated, which helps you remember next time.
If you just buy a new bag, it’s such a non-issue that you never learn.
I used this technique and it fixed a year of bad habits in two trips.
All depends on how many of those bags I’ll need.
If I’ve got a lot of grocery bags at home, then I’ll go with the reusables, since I’m stocked on trash bags. But if I’m running low, I’ll get a fair amount of plastic bags since I’m able to keep my trash output down to a couple of small bins; there’s one under the kitchen sink and one under the bathroom sink.
Only 36?
I remember reading about how filthy those reusable bags get for most people. Since most do not wash them.
