Third Week: Reducing Plastic Bags

My third week of my Do One Thing project has been successful. I have tried not to use plastic bags at all. Instead of using plastic bag, I used paper bags or my own backpack. However, this past Saturday I used about 15 plastic bags. I forgot that I was going to the market so I had to use plastic bags. I couldn’t just carry everything with my hands. I didn’t bring a tote bag or anything just myself. The store I go to puts 2 plastic bags in one to carry the stuff I bought.

I felt so bad knowing how badly I broke my promise to decrease use of plastic bags. At the beginning I thought it would be easy but when I started the project I thought it was harder than I thought. When I went to the store to buy food I kept on forgetting to bring a reusable bag. I was going crazy because I broke my promise that I was not going to use a plastic bag. I really wanted to help the world and reduce plastic bags. I hope the following weeks I can keep up with my promise.

You can buy some plastics bags here

Many people have told me that reusing plastic bags is a easy DOT project. They say that because they don’t know the truth.