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For all the San Antonio folk. In celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday the HEB at the corner of Jones Maltsberger and Thousand Oaks is giving away free canvas shopping bags on Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. All you have to do is bring in all your plastic HEB bags. For every 5 plastic bags you turn in, you will get one green canvas bag.
I am totally going. My only problem is that I don’t have that many plastic bags to turn in, because we already use three canvas bags to shop.
Go get your free canvas bags if you are near that HEB on Tuesday!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
I believe ALL HEBs are doing this!
If you miss it, get one of the bags for 99 cents next time you shop. Or, if you think another store’s are more attractive, get theirs. Even Walgreen’s has their own reuseable bags now.
I happen to love HEBs new green ones; think they’re a great shape. Also lovelovelove a canvas reuseable I found at Container Store…
I hope HEB eventually starts charging people for plastic bags. Good for the business and the environment. (Bad for doggie owners, I guess….)
The next challenge to overcome? Our love of water bottles….
April 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for the tip…. I know that IKEA charges for plastic bags….
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Yes, Ikea does charge for bags. It’s custom in Europe to charge customers for their shopping bags. The good news to this is that they’re big, durable and therefore INCREDIBLY reusable. Gets rid of the annoying teeny ones that American grocers use. I’m glad to hear that more and more stores are jumping on the resusable bag bandwagon.
On the water bottle front, Dave and I believe it’s a conspiracy now - all the coverage that reusable water bottles are getting for that “mysterious dangerous chemical” that is in those containers. I know little about it but I can’t help but roll my eyes at it - come on, they just convinced most folks that disposable plastic bottles are horrible and to use a large bottle all the time - and now they’re telling us that’s bad too. It never ends. (for what it’s worth, we don’t buy bottled water and haven’t for a long time.)
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I have some opinions that are unpopular: like believing that gas should be $10 a gallon to spur innovation - or a revolt. Another being that plastic bags should cost money.
We have used canvas bags for about five years and it is a constant struggle to get the checkout folk to understand that I don’t want plastic. Not even if my poor milk gallon is all alone - that’s why it has a HANDLE.
I’d like to take this further and stop using the plastic bags that they have strewn all over the produce aisle, but Amanda “hates seeing her potatoes rolling down that dirty conveyor.” When I shop alone, I put all the produce in one canvas bag and plop that bag in front of the checker and ask him to transfer to another bag as he rings them up. They love me for that. When you really think about it those small produce bags are so over designed and bad for the environment. Plus, you’re gonna wash the produce later, aren’t you?
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
yeah… at work I have a Brita water filter pitcher and just refill that in my large bill miller’s cup. I rarely buy bottled water unless i am out. As for the plastic bags- I am breaking away from the trend. On the Oprah show that had some reusuable nets for produce that looked really cute and durable. I just can’t remember where to purchase them.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I insisted on spelling reusable wrong yesterday, didn’t I?
I stopped in to HEB to get some apples last night and I felt what Amanda feels… I don’t want the plastic, but I don’t want to set my apples on the belt. But I couldn’t use the plastic bag - esp. not on Earth Day - the irony!!
Since I only had a couple, I held them in my hand. I weighed them in produce, then gave the chick the sticker (which made me feel a little dirty), and I slid the apples into my purse.
Speaking of irony… I saw several people with the green reusable bags - empty and folded, with a pile of plastics on top. REALLY?!?!?!