When you do the weekly shop (if you do a weekly shop) do you take bags with you, or do you strip them from the wad o’ bags at the end of the checkout? I expect that, like most people, you do the latter – you AWFUL person! Of course I am exactly the same; I choose to do my part in ruining the environment for the sake of not having to carry around my own plastic (or other) bags. Unlike most however, I am not going to appeal to human nature or any anti-hippy propaganda – I am happy to admit that I am just lazy. Walking to the shops is effort enough for me without having to carry all the bags I intend to fill as well.
However, the Society for Probably Totally Invented Statistics informs me that approximately 13.5 billion plastic bags are used per year in the UK alone, less than one percent of which are recycled. Given that the amount of petrol it takes to make one plastic bag could drive a car over a hundred metres, our plastic bag consumption uses enough petrol to drive around the world about 40,000 times. Hippy or not, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty messed up.
Never having been one to turn down an opportunity for super-heroics, I shall now put an end to the 100,000 cases of bird/marine life death per year from plastic waste, via a series of blog posts detailing alternative promotional bags and how much they destroy, or do not destory, the world. Join me on my incredible journey as I subject a variety of plastic-bag-replacements to the test called the Alternative Methods of Carrying Everyday or Realistic Items (or AMOCERI as it is known).
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