Reusable bag
I have officially switched from single use plastic bags to a very large reusable bag. I started shopping for my kids back to school supplies. I always buy extras for their classrooms, and I usually buy a little at a time. I break it down to a few trips before school starts. I realized I have been buying way too many plastic bags during these last few back to school shopping trips. Since they have been a lot, I have accumulated a ton of plastic bags that I honestly won't use. This reusable bag is such a great size, and I don’t need more than 1 or 2 for any shopping trip or the grocery store. I would literally be cutting down hundreds of plastic bags I’d use with this one bag. And best of all, it was so inexpensive, I got it at the thrift shop! So on top of reducing the number of plastic bags I’m using, this also helps reduce pollution and litter that not only affects our oceans but our marine and wild life as well. I saw a video in our module about us consuming fish that sometimes ingest these microplastics in our oceans and I was shocked because I did not realize how much of an impact a single piece of plastic really had on the entire planet, affecting oceans, all animals, climate, and humans. This photo shows the bag I purchased and inside are a lot of school supplies for my kids classrooms but it looks like there’s barely anything because the bag is just huge. I love it though. I realize that as I’m shopping for my kids' stuff, I can purchase things like reusable water bottles instead of single water bottles and replace plastic containers with other alternatives such as glass containers to start to make small changes that will help reduce my impact on the environment.
