Comments on: Plastic Challenge: Sara Hassan, Week 2 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2012/03/plastic-challenge-sara-hassan-week-2/ Take the challenge. Collect your plastic waste (both recyclable and non) for one week or more. Then photograph, tally, and post it here. What can we learn about our habits and lifestyles by examining our waste? And what changes can each of us make to leave the planet a little less trashy? Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pat Clancy http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2012/03/plastic-challenge-sara-hassan-week-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3212 Pat Clancy Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:55:14 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=2327#comment-3212 I wash and reuse ziplock bags as well as plastic bags that various food items come packaged in. I guess I haven’t worried so much about the leaching issue. I just wash the bags by hand with my dishes and have a wooden rack to hang them on for drying. I am now searching for food that is not packaged in plastic, and it is a challenge. I take the produce bags back to the store and fill them up again from the produce aisle and bulk items like nuts and cereals. I transfer them to other containers when I get home.

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But there are lots of others. ECOBAGS are made from organic cotton. And lots of Etsy sellers make produce/bulk bags.

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