Polite Ways to Suggest Reusable Bag Use
If you weren’t already using your own shopping totes before, I hope reusable bag month has helped to convert you. Now, how do you go about spreading the reusable bag love?
Try these simple ways to help your friend get the reusable bag habit on:
• Show your bags. Brag on them. Talk about how much better you like them than one-timers.
• Buy bag starter gifts. Get them started with an affordable shopping bag.
• Go shopping! For encouragement, offer to shop with your friends on their first reusable bag outings.
• Get them thinking. Ask, “How many plastic bags do you use each month?” It’s an interesting question, and collecting them all in one place for a month may really bring home the consumption rate. (The bag image is from when I did that before I started using my own bags. That was two month’s worth of bags.)
• If you sew, have a reusable bag making party. Use old fabrics to create one-of-a-kind shopping totes.
Do you have more suggestions for helping others convert to reusable bags?
Image: From me.
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2 opinions for Polite Ways to Suggest Reusable Bag Use
katherine
Jun 30, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I offered to write a “going green” column for the newsletter of a moms’ group I am in. My first column was on plastic bags. After that, people started asking me how to recycle this and that, and someone even asked me to write my next column about buying organic food (which I did). I have all sorts of ideas for next year that I should go ahead and write up while the ideas are fresh!
Peggy
Jul 1, 2008 at 12:44 am
Congratulations on your green columns Katherine. I enjoy green writing. It helps keep me in line and learning! : )
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