Plastic Free Challenge - Day 13

Today's challenge is to "skip the plastic produce bags". I've noticed recently that people are starting to take their reusable bags with them to the grocery store, but in the produce section some are still using the single-use plastic produce bags. Not necessarily because they want to, but because they may not know there is another option.

When fruits or vegetables come with a rind that you don’t eat (lemons or grapefruits), you can put them directly in your grocery cart, no bag needed. You can wash the fruit before you eat it, as most fruit at grocery stores come a long way and have debris from transit, not something the produce bag would have helped with as it arrived that way at the store.

Consider picking up a few reusable cloth produce bags. These are drawstring bags that replace single-use plastic produce bags. Fill them with lettuce, tomatoes, apples, anything and everything. When you get home, you can store food in the cloth bags in the fridge or crisper drawer, or remove everything from the bags and store the produce as you normally would.

The best part, since you already remember to bring your reusable bags, just store these extra produce bags inside those and when you arrive at the produce section, before you reach for the plastic produce bags, you will remember that you brought your own.

These were from Moonsnail Soapworks, but you can get them at other local shops and I have also seen them on Amazon.