The GGN's Reusable Bag Initiative [RUBI] had its regular Wednesday meeting today at the Northbrook Public Library. Join us next month -- Wednesday, February 5th at 1:00 PM. Same place.
We have lots of energetic people on the RUBI team -- all committed to an environment without single use plastic bags. Why not add your thoughts to the list of ideas we want to implement in the next few months? Earth Day is coming.
In recent years many initiatives have been underway across the country to encourage use of reusable bags in place of plastic. For starters, Highland Park has taken the first step on the North Shore and passed an ordinance requiring businesses to make reusable bags available for purchase, and provide containers to recycle plastic bags.
Recycling is problematic because single use plastic bags are not biodegradable. Many cities in California have simply banned plastic bags outright. Seattle bans plastic bags and requires a 5 cent deposit on paper.
Bring Your Bag Chicago, a "Bag the Plastic Bag" ban currently under consideration in the Windy City, has its own Facebook page. In fact, YOU probably have a bunch of reusable bags languishing in the way back of your car, even as we speak. Next time you're at Sunset or Trader Joe's or Whole Foods -- don't forget to take them with you!!!
To emphasize the difference you can make by taking your reusable bags when you shop -- here's a satiric video, narrated by Jeremy Irons, as only the British can, to remind us of the problems caused by plastic bags -- issues which may have started locally, but now have proliferated into an oceanic disaster with global consequences.
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