I saw that. Really makes you stop and think!

Ten years ago I found my tall rough redwood garden fence covered in what I thought at first was hundreds of thin spider webs. On closer inspection I discovered that it was plastic - parts of row covers from farming areas which had partly disintegrated and were floating all over our valley.

I bet we were BREATHING even smaller parts of it. Min

in a heartbeat if walmart and the other stores had it like it used to be, i'd go to paper, or if they had those big cloth bags, i've seen netting bags, i absolutely love the looks of them. i'd use them!! hmmmm......where in the world do they get them i wonder!! i mean they are huge!!! but not to big. i love the idea. and anything i could compost or reuse i'm all for!! ~Medo

Plastic bags have been an environmental disaster since their inception. The trunk of my car is filled with bags of plastic bags to recycle. Some food banks will accept them, sometimes Goodwill stores, even Walmart.

The local landfill has banned plastic bags for yard waste(which is recycled into mulch and compost). Baltimore City is considering a ban on plastic bags but faces a huge political and economic battle.

Often, there is no choice-it's plastic or the reusable bags that I left in the trunk of my car. duh : - ((

Anyway Medo, here is a link for those neat mesh bags, love em! http://www.ecokitchen.com/shop/bags.html#netbag

Linda