Even though a lot more grocery stores and major chain drug stores, etc. are starting to offer their own reusable cloth bags for their customers at a price that doesn’t mean the store cashiers are going to automatically start bagging your items in reusable cloth bags. Whether you use your own cloth bags or purchased cloth bags from the grocery or drug store offering them make sure to tell the cashier to bag your items using your cloth bags. Also, not everyone agrees with using cloth bags, and at times doesn’t see a point in using them to help the environment, so sometimes you may run into a cashier who will question your use of cloth bags. The best advice for this kind of incident if this ever happens to you is to simply ask to speak to a manager.
Apart from reusable cloth bags there are also reusable bags that are waterproof, which are great when purchasing cold products, or even when buying chicken, etc. since they can be easily washed. Reusable waterproof bags can be found at reusablebags.com. Reusable cloth bags have other benefits aside from using them for just groceries. A great use for them is giving them to children on Halloween when they go trick-or-treating and using them as their trick-or-treat bags instead of a plastic pumpkin. A reusable cloth bag can be decorated to appear more festive for holidays, such as Halloween. Reusable bags can also be used to help tote food, utensils, etc. for picnics.
Reusable bags can be purchased at places such as reusablebags.com, ecobags.com, onebagatatime.com, Envirosax, Earth Wise Bags, etc.
One town in England has banned plastic bags altogether but others aren’t following very fast sadly. I have a couple of cloth bags two of them are from supermarkets, the other super markets just sell stronger plastic bags that can be re-used until they wear out.
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