Why You Should Use Reusable Grocery Bags

We must all make efforts to make the world a better place. Going green is no longer some leftist, hippie nonsense, but rather something we truly must get behind. Our planet is starting to become one great landfill site and unless we make some real changes, we will end up with no place to leave behind for our children. A lot of green initiatives are expensive or difficult, but there are plenty of small things we can do as well, one of them being to use reusable grocery bags. Here are a few of the reasons why you should consider this.

1 - Understanding How Much Non-Reusable Bags Actually Cost

It seems like just a small plastic bag that you put in the rubbish, but try to think for a minute about how many plastic bags you throw away, perhaps even on a daily basis. Multiply that by the amount of people that live not just in our country, but around the world. Plastic takes years to disintegrate, but it can be recycled very easily. So why throw it in the rubbish at all? Think about the impact of plastic bags on nature for a minute.

"Public agencies in California alone spend over $300 million a year on coastal litter clean-up, at least 10% of which is washed-up plastic bags. Just think of how an extra $30 million could be redirected to, say, education."

2 - The Cost to Life

We know that plastic bags littering our coast lines and walkways are unsightly. Most of us also know that those bags, unless physically removed, will be there for many years to come. What many of us don't know, or don't consider for that matter, is just how damaging they actually are. We don't consider the impact on our wildlife for instance.

"It's estimated that 1 million birds and thousands of turtles and other sea animals die each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags."

That is a shocking statistics, particularly when you consider how easy it is to avoid it. Simply switching to reusable grocery bags is all that is needed in order to save turtles and birds, as well as fish and marine mammals. Some of these creatures are endangered and it would be a horrible legacy to leave to our children to know that we ended an entire species by discarding plastic bags instead of recycling.

3 - The Cost to You

One thing that drives almost everything in our society is money. None of us have enough of it, we all spend every waking moment thinking about it and we struggle through life just to make ends meet. Hence, knowing that switching to reusable grocery bags can actually save you money may just be that last little push you need in order to actually make the switch.

"Your weekly shop may use five or six bags; let's say these cost 5c each. 30c a week might not sound like much, but that's $15 a year that you could use for something else. Invest it in reusable bags that you can use at the market, carrying your library books... they're not just good for shopping."

Switching to reusable grocery bags is such a small thing to do, but it has a huge impact on the world. We treat the planet as though we own it and have another place to go, which is simply not true. This planet is all we have and we have a responsibility to make sure our children will have a place to live. A simple switch to something that makes your life easier as well will have a huge impact towards that.

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