If you’re really serious.

About helping out the environment and stopping the whole Global Warming thing you might want to look into this:

Designed and introduced in 2002 as an everyday reusable replacement to disposable plastic shopping bags, millions of which are used once and thrown away daily, ACME Bags Workhorse is both stylish and tough. Its unique design is based on the classic plastic shopping bag, but is made of super strong, durable, rip-stop nylon that is virtually tear-proof.

I was reading an article about these things yesterday and couldn’t help but think it might be a good thing to look into. Especially as seeing I spent a good deal of time recently folding up a number of the bags that had amassed in the bag drawer and how a lot of times these things go right into the garbage. First off, plastic of course is generated by petrochemicals and second there is just the concern of the impact these things have on the environment.

Consumers find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to paper or plastic. To find out what is best to do in the grocery store, we turned to Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“It depends on where you live,” he says.

Plastic bags threaten wildlife along the coasts, so if that’s where you call home, Hershkowitz says the choice should be paper. In the heartland, he says it’s plastic.

Everytime I hear or read something about this subject, I can’t help but think of the North Pacific Gyre said to be approaching the size of Texas!



NPR’s Scott Simon talks with oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer about a giant patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.