Our families often debate what to do with old plastic bags or how to break friends and families from using resealable bags (like sandwich bags) at home. Its certainly difficult - the younger generations were raised on resealable bags and therefore, don't often think of discarding them.

You already bring your own carrier bag to the farmer's market, and yet so many of us still rely on the plastic produce bags offered by the vendors. A trend in farmer's markets nationwide is to ban these bags, but if your farmer's market hasn't done so yet, here are some tips for packing your carrier bag so you won't need to use any plastic produce bags.

Becoming responsible to our environment: paper, plastic or cotton bags?
By Frosty Wooldridge
Denver Political Issues Examiner

Looking for an easy way* to recycle your old or used plastic bags?

These are a couple of excellent websites for locating your nearest recycling center, which in most instances will be your nearest grocery store.

http://earth911.com/
On Earth911, you can enter your state, city or zip code in order to locate your nearest recycling center.

“As from March [1], 2009 it becomes illegal for shops, small and large, to give away plastic bags. Only the transparent, no hands, small bags given with bread and food from the counter can be dispensed free. All other bags must be sold.”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/02/22/vince.html