Say No to the Bag

A lady gets up in the morning and goes to Dunkin Donuts for coffee and breakfast. They wrap her bagel in paper, put it into a bag with 5 napkins and put both of them on a tray.

She walks out of the store, gets into her car, opens the bag to eat her bagel and throws both the paper and the bag out. She takes her coffee off the tray and throws that out as well. She uses one of the 5 napkins. Not sure what to do with the other 4, she throws them out.

She goes to Shaw’s. She selects apples – they go into a plastic bag. She chooses snap peas – they go into a bag. She buys cold cuts – they go into a bag. She decides on cheese –another plastic bag. At the fish counter – they wrap her salmon in paper and then another plastic bag. She proceeds to check out, while the nice boy double bags her groceries. Once home, she puts everything away and then throws out 25 plastic bags.

She then takes Fido for his daily walk. She grabs a black plastic “doggie do” bag, cleans up after him and then disposes of that bag in the local trashcan.

She then heads to the dry cleaners to pick up shirts. 10 shirts -10 plastic, wrapper bags.

She rushes to buy gifts for a birthday party. Each is wrapped and put into a shopping bag. The store clerk kindly asks her if she would like a larger bag to put all her smaller bags into. She gets home, takes the gifts out, gives them to her children, and throws away the shopping bags. Her kids go off to the party and 2 hours later they come home with goodie bags in hand. They open them, enjoy the treats, and then throw those bags out too.

Her husband comes home at the end of the day. Wine bottle in hand –it’s in a bag. They open it up, remove the bag and throw it out.

Right before bed, they clean up, take all their garbage, all their bags, and put them into a bigger heavy-duty hefty garbage bag and throw it all out.

Now multiply this story times 230 million people in the United States.

When you can – Say no thank you to the bag, the extra napkins, the packaging, the wrapping, the paper liner, and the tray.