Whole Foods Bags Plastic Bags

Kerry Trueman January 23, 2008 | 4:32 pm EST

In theory, I have to applaud Whole Food’s announcement that as of April 22nd–i.e., Earth Day–they’ll no longer offer their customers plastic shopping bags. After that, shoppers will have three options: the ever-more-popular BYOB; recycled paper bags; or, reusable bags they’ll sell for 99 cents.

In practice, though, this creates a dilemma for our ostensibly eco-friendly household. We shop at Whole Foods several times a week, and while we always bring our own canvas bags, we also avail ourselves of their plastic bags on occasion so we’ll have something to schlep our kitchen scraps to the Greenmarket in when we hand them over to the fine folks at the Lower East Side Ecology Center who turn our peels and coffee grounds into compost.

Oh well, there’s always Trader Joe’s. For now. But plastic bags are clearly on their way to becoming an endangered species. This is a good thing, I know. Now, if only I could find a waterproof, reusable bag to transport my scraps in–’cause recycled paper just ain’t gonna cut it.

To learn more about the plastic bag plague, go to earthresource.org

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