Flooded Lizard Kingdom

I'm going to be working this plastic bag topic for a while.

We're doing a mighty good job Chez Us at reducing the plastic shopping bags we bring home. I think we're at about 1 per month. Two areas are slightly more difficult, though: produce bags and dry cleaning bags.

We're more heavily reusing produce bags as a first step. After all, if you have zucchini in it this week and more zucchini in it next week, what's the harm? But honestly, I'd like to not get them in the first place. However, produce left unsupervised in our fridge goes downhill fast.

This post on TreeHugger about BioBags has given me an idea. What if instead of bringing produce bags back to the store, we buy produce naked, put it in BioBags when we get home, and just keep reusing the bags as long as we can. They probably have a better chance of breaking down safely in a landfill than plastic bags do, and when we get a house we can just switch to composting them.

Now what to do about the dry cleaner...