Flooded Lizard Kingdom

Yesterday I watched a woman walk up to H-E-B with several plastic bags full of plastic bags. She put them into the recycling bin and then went inside, presumably to buy some groceries and bring them home in more plastic bags.

I'm developing a tic just thinking about it. There's a reason that the mantra is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. That third option is kind of crap compared to the first two.

Correspondent tesseract26 sent in this report a couple of months ago, but I had forgotten about it until she dropped off one of the bags she describes at my house:

On my pilgrimage to the downtown Whole Foods today, I noticed they had some of these bags. They're WF branded, of course, so you're walking product placement; but on the upside, they have a bottom panel, so they're structured (so much easier to deal with than floppy canvas), and they're only $3!! I bought three of them to round out my collection.

I guess I have to give it back, since I have one third of her collection.

Another fun link to check out, via a post on Treehugger: Take Your Bag For A Walk. You don't have to buy theirs, you can buy (or make) your own and it will work just as well.

Honest, it's not that hard. Especially if you drive to the store in a car, which most of you do. Just keep a bag or two in the car with you. I'm not just talking grocery store either - do it at Fry's, at CVS, at Walgreens, etc.

Of course, the most common cashier response to "I don't need a bag" is "What?" So you'll probably have to say it twice. But really, who can blame retail employees for zoning out a little from time to time?