Walking Your Talk (I Am a Bag Lady)

Keep a compact reusable bag in your purse for those spur-of-the-moment purchases

Refuse a plastic bag for five items or less

Fit purchases from different stores into the same bag wherever possible. There’s no reason to have eight shopping bags with only one item in each.

Put your cloth bags back in your car as soon as you’re done unloading groceries. There’s less chance of forgetting them at home that way (and you’ll be one step closer to using them!).

Keep them on the front seat, rather than in the trunk. If you see them, you’ll be far less likely to forget them.

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