Use Re-Usable Shopping Bags and Recycle Plastic Bags When you Get them

A local community posted that plastic bags should not be put in the recycle bin.  Plastic bags clog up the machinery that is used to sort recyclables.

The best thing to do is acquire fewer plastic bags when you are shopping. Then, you can recycle the ones you do acquire at most grocery stores.

Take reusable shopping bags with you to the stores!

My family has a bag called BOB. Bob is our “Bag of Bags.” We have one for each car so there is always a BOB where/when you need it.

It’s impossible to avoid plastic bags all together. For those, collect them and drop them off at the grocery store (there is usually a receptacle for plastic bags by the entrance/exit).

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Only USE: TREE FREE Paper Products

CONSUMERS: BE INFORMED AND SPEAK UP FOR WHAT YOU WANT!!
Start reading labels. Ask the retailers you visit to stock TREE FREE paper products. Write companies Contact Forms. Make your voice heard. Writing via a contact for takes a few minutes. If everybody did that, there’s be tree free paper products everywhere all the time.

There is absolutely NO reason to CUT DOWN TREES to make toilet paper/tissues/paper towels!

Paper products can be made from sugar cane and bamboo. For one place, you can buy TREE FREE paper products at Brandless:
https://brandless.com/products/tree-free-bath-tissue

Paper products can be made of 100% recycled content.

For one place, you can buy paper products at Target (their Everspring line):
https://www.target.com/p/100-recycled-paper-towels-everspring-153/-/A-54590228?preselect=75663224#lnk=sametab

Trader Joe’s sells paper products made from 100& recycled content (but weirdly, I cannot find this online anywhere, but every time I got to Trader Joe’s I stock up on their 100% recycled content paper towels and toilet paper. Just check the labels.

The company WHO GIVES A CRAP, will deliver tree free/plastic free paper products to your door:
https://us.whogivesacrap.org/collections/

Read This:
Earth Day: How America’s ‘tree-to-toilet pipeline’ is destroying forests
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-americans-tree-to-toilet-pipeline-is-destroying-canadian-forests-2019-03-01

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