:) on reading the bag recycling method. my thought process ran; I just
washed them, why would I want them to fall on *my* floor? Besides that
the inside of the bag is what ends up needing the cleaning. On
recycling glass milk bottles, how much higher would the energy input be?
Hot water to sterilize them for re-use. Heavier trucking loads, both
ways. I'm not old enough to remember dry bulk goods, I don't recall my
parent's generation mentioning it. I always they where prepackaged in
paper like flour and some sugar still is today, before plastic arrived.
Doug, N0LKK
Kansas USA inc.
Keith Addison wrote:
>
> You haven't seen our kitchen floor. You must be a city slicker.
>
> Storage bags are okay, and useful (ziplock), it's the shopping bags
> that cause the problems.
>
> Don't plastic bags come from oil wells?
>
> When I was a kid the stores had the dry-goods stuff (beans, grains
> and so on) in wooden bins and barrels, they scooped it out onto
> scales on the counter and then tipped it into a paper bag for you.
> Greens and fruit were also in paper bags, or wooden boxes or hessian
> sacks. Milk was in returnable bottles, bread was wrapped in tissue in
> a brown paper bag, can't remember how the meat got packed but the
> butcher cut it for you while you waited (greaseproof paper?), same at
> the fishmonger.
>
> I guess we'll have all that again, if the local food movement has its
> way. Just in case you thought I was being nostalgic, not at all,
> looking to the future. :-)
>
> Best
>
> Keith
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