Comments on: Convenience http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/convenience/ ...and justice for all. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bryan Moats http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/convenience/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Bryan Moats Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:33:53 +0000 http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/?p=120#comment-475 I am surprised that we do not have as many stray plastic bags around here. At home we have collected so many of them because that is all that is offered at the local grocery. We use them to collect the kitty litter and other random uses, but that is about it. Every so often I pick one up off the sidewalk or out of someone's bushes on the way home from work. Generally, though, the landscape is free of them. Maybe, at least, we've gotten good at keeping them indoors, if not avoiding them altogether. The obvious solution being purchasing a few canvas bags or taking old plastic bags back to the grocery store. Not exactly convenient for large shopping trips, but better than nothing. I am surprised that we do not have as many stray plastic bags around here. At home we have collected so many of them because that is all that is offered at the local grocery. We use them to collect the kitty litter and other random uses, but that is about it.

Every so often I pick one up off the sidewalk or out of someone’s bushes on the way home from work. Generally, though, the landscape is free of them. Maybe, at least, we’ve gotten good at keeping them indoors, if not avoiding them altogether. The obvious solution being purchasing a few canvas bags or taking old plastic bags back to the grocery store. Not exactly convenient for large shopping trips, but better than nothing.

]]> By: mom http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/convenience/comment-page-1/#comment-409 mom Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:44:04 +0000 http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/?p=120#comment-409 I like this. Makes me think about a convenience that is common place. You know, having traveled now a bit and living in Europe - I can tell you that of the countries I have spent time in - it is only the US that is so taken with convenience, It is actually hard to find plastic spoons and cups here in Switzerland. But for awhile plastic shopping bags in South Africa were known as the National Flower because they were everywhere - littering the landscape Many places in Europe and in South Africa now - YOu have to buy a shopping or ask for then as they are kept behind the counter and then you feel guilty for not bringing your own. I like this. Makes me think about a convenience that is common place. You know, having traveled now a bit and living in Europe – I can tell you that of the countries I have spent time in – it is only the US that is so taken with convenience, It is actually hard to find plastic spoons and cups here in Switzerland. But for awhile plastic shopping bags in South Africa were known as the National Flower because they were everywhere – littering the landscape Many places in Europe and in South Africa now – YOu have to buy a shopping or ask for then as they are kept behind the counter and then you feel guilty for not bringing your own.

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