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bag weight: .33 oz .58 oz 1.08 oz
Potatoes @ $1.50/lb .02 .04 .09
Sweet potatoes @ $1.50/lb .02 .04 .09
Dates @ $8/lb .13 .25 .5
Onions @ $1.50/lb .02 .04 .09
Mushrooms @ $5/lb .08 .15 .31
Walnuts @ $12/lb .19 .38 .75
Tomatoes @ $4/lb .06 .13 .25
Peaches @ $2.50/lb .04 .08 .16
Flax seed @ $4/lb .06 .13 .25
Oatmeal @ $1.25/lb .02 .04 .08
Brown Rice @ $1.25/lb .02 .04 .08
Popcorn @ $2/lb .03 .06 .13
Total (per trip): $.69 $1.38 $2.78
1 year (1x per week): $35.88 $71.76 $144.56
1 year (2x per week): $71.76 $143.52 $289.12
Kiki wrote:Well, the insignificance does add up...
For me, this is an unnecessary expense and way too much to pay for the privilege of saving the store money on plastic bags.
rickfm wrote:Kiki wrote:Well, the insignificance does add up...
For me, this is an unnecessary expense and way too much to pay for the privilege of saving the store money on plastic bags.
It's not about saving the store money, it's about being more responsible with the amount of garbage we generate.
Besides, I save so much money from no longer buying animal products, I don't mind "making a contribution" to do my small part in caring for my planet.
Seeing wildlife trapped in plastic garbage, out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds or even thousands of miles away from human activity, just makes me sick.
Kiki wrote:Why not make the switch, get the store to correct its policy, and use the money to donate to the nature conservation program of your choice instead of using it to fund the CEOs at Whole Foods or Safeway?
I don't understand the reticence to simply send a note to a store asking them to make a small change in policy that would better serve them (right now WF, for example, overcompensates when I mention the tare weight problem) as well as the whole community?
Kiki wrote:I'm also asking them to get compostable produce bags. I currently use the ones I get to line the kitchen compost bin. The other 'organic' stores I've shopped at all have compostable bags that more or less go back to nature. Whole Foods really needs to step up.
HealthyMe2010 wrote:Also for bulk items, how do you purchase them? Flour isn't going to work in a cloth bag and using a glass container will just cost more because of the weight of the container...
stoumi wrote:Just yesterday I walked to Chinatown in Oakland during my lunch. I stopped by 3 establishments and not surprisingly walked out with 3 plastic bags. On the way home I stopped by an international market, buying 4 cans of fava beans, 2 pounds of besan and 2 naan breads. That was 3 more plastic bags.
Next step remove all the plastic containers we store food in, opting for glassware. Yet those still have plastic lids. It seems you can never escape.
I found this information regarding recycling newspaper: "America's supply of timber has been increasing for decades, and the nation's forests have three times more wood today than in 1920. 'We're not running out of wood, so why do we worry so much about recycling paper?' asks Jerry Taylor, the director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute. 'Paper is an agricultural product, made from trees grown specifically for paper production. Acting to conserve trees by recycling paper is like acting to conserve cornstalks by cutting back on corn consumption.'"
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