Plastic has become an everyday part of our lives and it is important to note that this is a good thing! Plastic is the material arthritic patients use for their replaced knees and construction workers wear to protect their heads.
However, a problem arises when plastic ends up in the ocean. The seas are an important provider of food and medicine. We now have the technology to visit the unexplored deep ocean floor, and, with this holds a great amount of power to locate marine organisms that can be used to eliminate disease.
More than twenty percent of the global population gets the majority of its protein from seafood. Drugs and other medical treatments that are made from marine plants and animals are being developed at a fast rate. For example, brown seaweed extract is grown in the ocean and harvested by professional diverscontains phytochemicals that have been clinically shown in blocking the growth of cancer tumors and regulating blood sugar.
Ocean pollution threatens to cripple these valuable resources that we rely on for both food and medicine. Ocean-going toxins become concentrated up the food chain through biomagnification. Many species of seafood are now so tainted with pollutants, such as mercury, lead, and dioxin, that they are no longer safe to eat in large amounts.
One of the ways that we can make a difference is through developing solutions. Look out for a future blog post on how your individual actions can make a global impact.
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While the conservatism of earth’s rrsoueces is an honorable trait, so is looking out for our own health. The idea of reusing bags is fine as long as everyone exercises good hygiene. I’m sure you have seen the reports on ecol i bacteria being found on 25% of ladies handbags Many people set their bags on a dirty floor where pet dander, roach excrement, or anything their shoes may have picked up is transferred to the bag. I’d say that Earth Fare shoppers are less likely to behave in this manor, but the fact remains that some people just don’t think about these things. The risk of these contaminated bags coming back to the store and placed exactly where your food is being scanned is enough to make you sick. Until checkout lines are equipped with UV sanitizers or an equivalent we are putting our families health at risk. You really should provide your customers with a means of getting the products out the door without the fear of bringing home a colony of uninvited guest for dinner. Doing away with plastic bags is fine but doing away with reusables would be even better! Paper anyone?
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I just moved here from DC. The city required all striosselleng food to charge .05 cents for every bag they provided to acustomer. The grocery stores then gave away reusable bags for twoweeks. The bags had their store name on it so they got advertisingout of it. I still have them and I try to bring them and rememberto bring them into the store. Lots of times, i have to go back tothe car for them. WHY did they do this? The Anacostia River whichmeets the Potomac River in DC has been a dumping area for plasticbags. I was pleased to make this small contribution to cleaning iup the Anacostia. The money from the the .05 charge was used toclean up the Anacostia too. I hope we are moving to using only ourown bags. I wash mine periodically to avoid build up of germs. Ifeel better doing it and the permanent grocery bags carry mygroceries more efficiently. Thanks, Marian
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I always reuse pstlaic grocery bags. They’re great for used kitty litter, lining wastebaskets, litter bags for the car. I always keep a few in my car. I remember when stores stopped using brown grocery bags and started with the pstlaic bags. Now it’s reversed. Earth Fare in Johnson City TN is terrible. The cashiers are disrespectful, and very rude if you’ve forgotten to bring reusable bags for your purchases. You practically have to suck their toes to get paper bags. The cardboard hot food containers quickly soak up liquids and leak. When EF still had pstlaic bags at the registers, I used one to prevent a mess in my car from leaky containers. Now I have to remember to grab a produce bag. It’s inconvenient. I have complained to several managers about the disrespectful attitude of the cashiers.
When done responsibly, fish farming—also known as aquaculture—presents a solution to meeting the increasing food demand of a growing global population. Farmed seafood already accounts for more than half of all the fish and shellfish we eat.
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Garbage has been discarded into the oceans for as long as humans have sailed the seven seas or lived on seashores or near waterways flowing into the sea. Since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventually deposited on beaches worldwide.
I personally use your paper bags and reuse them for lots of thnigs. I also reuse or recycle all plastic bags put muddy sports shoes in wet clothes, etc. I realize not all people recycle You have made your decision but if you start charging for your bags you will loose lots of business.My concern for the cloth bags you purchase is bacteria from foods unless you wash them after each time you use them.That would waste water .so I am not interested in using them to carry my groceries home.There are other plastic items carried in your store that I can’t reuse but I can recycle them. I don’t see how you would be able to get rid of all the plastic .like in the meat department what are you going to put the meat in? Just wondering and that is plastic that I am not going to recycle due to bacteria and spending time washing it to get it clean would also use water that we need to conserve.