> Some of our stupidmarkets do provide biodegradable plastic bags. They
> are supposed to degrade in a matter of months. In fact, I have found
> an old plastic shopping bag in the back of the understairs cupboard
> which had turned into a pile of white flakey stuff.
>
> Most stupidmarkets are also now selling a permanent shopping bag for
> just coppers, "A bag for life" one of them calls it. The Co-op sell
> unbleached natural fibre tote bags now for you to reuse. And Safeway
> used to sell green boxes to pack your stuff in, but I'm not sure if
> they still do. I still have mine.
>