My gosh.  I don't have to go shopping to get paper bags.  I always double
bag to be sure I have enough for recycling  This is cool, but I think just
putting them in my brand new blue Recycling containers would be fine.
Bringing them to the door is probably more than, as a Minnesotan, I feel I
deserve.

> With respect to plastic bags, the very BEST alternative, as some folks have
> said, is to bring your own.  Yes, I understand, personally, how difficult
> that is.  I have the opportunity to always say "paper" when I forget my
> cloth bags, and my customers provide unending opportunities for me to share
> my excess paper bags.   Yes, if you call Solid Waste and Recycling, and need
> paper bags for your recyclables, we are usually able to deliver a wad of
> paper bags to your door.  Please remember that your recyclables DO have to
> be in paper bags--it's not only a safety issue for our crews, it's part of
> making sure that the recyclables are marketable, and the Kraft paper markets
> (the bags themselves) are almost always positive.


-- 
DeWayne Townsend
Cooper

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