A lot of people shop do their grocery everyday. One thing that you can help save mother earth is to bring your own cloth or fabric bags when you shop! Some malls and stores especially groceries and supermarkets have adopted this even giving small incentives and discounts to shoppers when they shop and bring their own shopping bags.

If you do your shopping once a week and use your own bag, you will be able to do your own share of saving mother earth because by this act alone, you will be saving an estimated 250 to a thousand plastic grocery bags out of our landfills in a matter of five years. Learn to reuse and recycle plastic shopping or grocery bags and you can help save energy that is equal to almost eleven (11) barrels of oil! So next time you shop, bring your own cloth or fabric bags in shopping and help save mother earth and avoid harming ecosystems where these can cause harm to living creatures around landfills where those unused or used plastic bags end up in landfills.

Here are some alternate uses for those grocery and shopping bags that you have collected:

• Those old bags make great in-car trash bags.
• You can use them in your smaller waste bins around the house.
• Re-use them to clean up pet litter.
• Use them as shoe protectors in the garden.
• Take them with you for easy disposal of diapers.
• Use them to protect clothes from dust, moths, and other pests.
• Fill a few with shredded paper and tie them off for cheap, reusable packing materials.