Walmart and Food Lion in Onley

Walmart and Food Lion in Onley

Walmart and Food Lion in Onley already have theirs up, so check them out and thank them for participating. Waste Watchers hopes to see them all around the Shore at Food Lions and Fresh Prides and Dollar stores and other places where people appreciate being reminded to Bring Your Own Bag.
It would be a nice touch to have our Shore pride show up and down Route 13 with a local message for a sustainable practice.
This is not a radical proposal and sustainable is not a dirty word. Waste Watchers is suggesting that this summer we all make an effort to get in the habit of bringing our own bags to the store. In my case it took me at least 6 months to really get the habit, but I'm a slow learner, so the summer is a good place to start.
Lots of places globally are banning plastic bags or making them cost consumers, but that's not likely to happen here, yet. What we can do is use less of them in the first place, reuse them when possible (they are great for lining waste baskets, picking up poop, or carrying tennis shoes- just for starters) and then, recycle them whenever possible.
Here on the Eastern Shore our plastic bags are recycled and that's a good thing. What would be better would be to use less of them altogether?
We've all seen plastic bags blowing in the wind, across the field, hanging from the trees, bobbing along the beach. Here on the Shore this is a sadly common sight. Plastic bags, along with other litter, line our roadways.
(Can you believe I'm glad the weeds are growing because they hide the roadside trash? It's one of summer's illusions that I actually look forward to. After the long fall, winter, and spring of looking at the garbage in the ditches I'm relieved not to see it.) But I digress.
As a trash talker for Waste Watchers of the Eastern Shore, I've been referring to plastic, made from petroleum, as having come from dinosaur bones. My idea was to illustrate how old it is. Well, I was wrong.