Plastics are my nightmare. The earth's nightmare. Pictures of elephants on a CNN program eathing food enclosed in platic bags ans dying afterwards, unable to digest them..Good God! I atruggle to eliminate plastics in my food shopping. I bought string bags on Amazon and take them to the supermarket. The checkers put the vegetables and fruit in platics bags and then So much stuff (since the pandemic) is already enclosed in plastic bags or containers - do them out and put them in my net bag if I do not watch tme the whole time.That does not eliminate them....just from my own trash. I bought glass containers with bamboo tops for storing left overs -they are microwavable.
I grew up in England in WW2. I remember waiting in line at the food COOP. First, butter and cheese. Latter sliced from long slabs and put into grease proof paper which went into the open fire of our living room. At the vegetable stand , ditto waiting, then the potatoes onions etc. were put directly into our rustic basket. No bags except string bags. And we walked to the nearest shops -no buses, no cars no adding use of fossil fuels. I hear that in New Hampshire supermarkets sell string bags alongside their vegetable counters. Should I suggest it to Guido's? For Earth Day I always plant a tree in my large garden. This year it was delayed due to a short illness. But I did write postcards with friends from my OLLI Climate Change group to voters in red states to elect democrats in the next election. We were instructed to appeal to the abortion issues..not the Climate Change issues! Every night on NBCthey show tornadoes ripping through many states. But never on CNN. Is Chomsky right -"never trust the media- they give you what THEY want you to hear and they are dominated by Corporate Power.".
The media shies away from anything complicated, and redesigning our world is very complicated indeed. You're right that the plastics in the produce department need attention, too. (Guido's offers paper bags in the bulk grains section.) I've been reading about the "15-minute city" concept, which sounds a lot like what you grew up with. More on that to follow.
Plastics are my nightmare. The earth's nightmare. Pictures of elephants on a CNN program eathing food enclosed in platic bags ans dying afterwards, unable to digest them..Good God! I atruggle to eliminate plastics in my food shopping. I bought string bags on Amazon and take them to the supermarket. The checkers put the vegetables and fruit in platics bags and then So much stuff (since the pandemic) is already enclosed in plastic bags or containers - do them out and put them in my net bag if I do not watch tme the whole time.That does not eliminate them....just from my own trash. I bought glass containers with bamboo tops for storing left overs -they are microwavable.
I grew up in England in WW2. I remember waiting in line at the food COOP. First, butter and cheese. Latter sliced from long slabs and put into grease proof paper which went into the open fire of our living room. At the vegetable stand , ditto waiting, then the potatoes onions etc. were put directly into our rustic basket. No bags except string bags. And we walked to the nearest shops -no buses, no cars no adding use of fossil fuels. I hear that in New Hampshire supermarkets sell string bags alongside their vegetable counters. Should I suggest it to Guido's? For Earth Day I always plant a tree in my large garden. This year it was delayed due to a short illness. But I did write postcards with friends from my OLLI Climate Change group to voters in red states to elect democrats in the next election. We were instructed to appeal to the abortion issues..not the Climate Change issues! Every night on NBCthey show tornadoes ripping through many states. But never on CNN. Is Chomsky right -"never trust the media- they give you what THEY want you to hear and they are dominated by Corporate Power.".
The media shies away from anything complicated, and redesigning our world is very complicated indeed. You're right that the plastics in the produce department need attention, too. (Guido's offers paper bags in the bulk grains section.) I've been reading about the "15-minute city" concept, which sounds a lot like what you grew up with. More on that to follow.