Reduce, reduce, reduce

With all the emphasis on greening things up these days, I am baffled that the big suburban grocery stroe chains are still so dependent on these teeny-tiny plastic bags at checkout. it's actually not even so much their plastic-ness that kills me (an argument can certainly be made that many of these bags get kept and re-used for other things). It is their teeny-tininess! Who invented a bag for use at, hello, a GROCERY STORE which can barely contain a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread?! These days I am rather beholden to Fresh Direct, which certainly has its own packaging flaws, but when I lived in LA it frustrated me to no end to wrestle with 15 little plastic bags to buy provisions for one person for a week. And no paper option! To me, the paper bag is such a no-brainer, and I am always amazed when there's a choice between the two and people actually ask for plastic. I would love to hear why!