An Open Letter to The Grocery Store
Jul 18, 2018 · 4 min read
I started following Tiny Trash Can on Instagram, and I am seriously impressed with how little garbage her family generates. Because of the city we live in, we are able to recycle a lot of items and compost much of the rest. But at the end of the week, there’s still a bag full of single-use plastic that we’ve disposed of: wrappers and bags and tiny little scraps of plastic junk. What’s the point of the sheet of fake grass in my take-out sushi? I know that the sushi package is a bigger problem (as is the sushi itself) but seriously, what’s the point? There isn’t one.
