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    I'm Not Silly Enough to Stand in Line for a Canvas Bag

    Anya Hindmarch’s “green” tote bag is the iPhone of the grocery shopping world.

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    If you use canvas bags for groceries - what do you use for garbage bags?

    just want to know if you buy plastic garbage bags and tote them home in your re-useable canvas bags or do you use something else for your trash?

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    How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?

    Which takeaway containers are the most (and least) green?

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    We All Scream

    Some of the best and worst ice cream makers.

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    Bamboo Bread Bag

    In defense of bread.

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    Bag with Attitude

    Use a reusable shopping bag, or else!

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    pastry bag cleaning

    I can’t get the coupler out of a canvas pastry bag. I already posted this here, it showed up and now it’s gone. My apologies if theoriginal post comes back. I have to get this thing cleaned tonight because it will be...

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    Recycled Grocery Bags

    I’m looking to buy recycled grocery bags. I’ve looked at two websites – reusablebags.com and ecobags.com but I can’t seem to make up my mind. At home I have both the canvas kind and the recycled...

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    Bringing your own bags

    To avoid the each-item-gets-its-own-bag syndrome at larger supermarkets, I bring my own canvas bag. Has anyone else encountered a range of reactions from checkout and bagging people ranging from an eye-rolling “what's with...

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    What to do with produce bags

    I never use plastic produce bags, I use a basket from home, put my produce in that, which I place in the “seat” area of my shopping cart. It works GREAT! Call me quirky, but I also have over 40 canvas bags that I use...

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    Charging for grocery bags

    's population but create 25% of the world’s green gas emissions, anywhere that we can make individual changes will help in reducing our impact. We use canvas bags, assorted TJ’s bags, and reuse doubled paper grocery...

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    pastry bag & tips... recommendations sought

    I think people make way too big a deal about pastry bags and tips. You can do just fine at Sur La Table. For your purposes, just buy a few sizes of canvas reusable pastry bags and a few large tips (1 round, 1 star) that are very...

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    fighting with my pastry bag - help me win

    the canvas and the plastic, for fear that I will cut the bag. I’ve tried pulling the bag edges up around the adapter (which is what worked for the other bag). Thanks, renee

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    Bagging your own groceries -- what's up with that?

    I bag my own primarily because I bring my own canvas bags and love them packed heavy...no plastic, period. If I have chicken or meat, it goes on the very bottom. I know it pays to watch what’s being rung up on the register...

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    Ingles Market/Plastic Bag Recycling: For the ecoconscious Foodie

    this is pretty unfortunate and I applaud your efforts to get to the bottom of it and alert management to this. I know that Ingles sells very inexpensive reusable canvas bags - cheaper than any other store at 99cents per bag.

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