Which do you ask for at the grocery store? Paper Or Plastic?

Hi sweetbabyjane... Well, like you, we don't really have a choice when it comes to the grocery bags. They use plastic so we have to use that. What we do is try to recycle the plastic bags so we don't throw them out. I'd prefer paper bags because at least it can be broken down or recycled once you don't need it anymore.

At place, we do not have such options. Almost all of them are using plastic bags, and it's bad for the environment. One of the hypermarket (Tesco) are encouraging people to use their re-usable bag by giving away 'green points' for every time you reuse that bag. You could request for replacement when it worn out. That's a good start to raise the society awareness, but still I see people seldom make use of this option. Most of the time, I just ask the shop keeper save the plastic bags. Even if I have to use the plastic, I will also reuse it as garbage bag. In this way, the minimum plastic are disposed.

I actually do not have a choice because almost all grocery stores have plastic for their bags. I know it is not environment friendly but grocery stores here do not seem to mind. The only way is to reuse those plastic bags instead of disposing at once. Yes I also do use them as thrash can liner.

We too only have the plastic option available, and then at walmart the recycled bag but I don't think that anybody uses that. I think that paper bags look classier or whatever, but plastic bags work just as well. I too reuse them for small trash cans and what not.