{"id":14403,"date":"2021-03-20T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2021-03-21T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:04:23","slug":"daily_2256_-_im_hoarding_plastic_bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/daily_2256_-_im_hoarding_plastic_bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2256 – I’m hoarding plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSingle-use plastic bags for fruit and veggies went from ubiquitous to reviled almost overnight. Now ICA and Coop both offer paper bags instead. I find those bulky and clumsy so I got myself a set of reusable mesh bags instead, which I keep in my purse so I always have them with me.<\/p>\n

I never saw those single-use bags as single-use. I always saved them and reused them. When I buy a chunk of cheese and tear open the packaging, I need a bag for the cheese. When I go out hiking, I need a bag or two for my sandwiches, or for taking home my garbage. When I have a plate of leftover pancakes, I need a bag to cover them with so they don’t dry out.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t have an inflow of these bags any more, and I miss them. There are freezer bags you can buy on a roll, and they work fine for most tasks. They just feel a bit more wasteful because they’re thicker than the single-use bags. The problem with the freezer bags is that they are all narrow. When I go up in size to 5 litre bags, they get longer but not much wider. None of them fit over a dinner plate.<\/p>\n

I avoid cling wrap because hasn’t been clingy for years (I think the material was changed at some point due to environmental concerns?) so it always disappoints me.<\/p>\n

Today someone went shopping and came home with apples in one of those shameful plastic bags. I am so going to hoard it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Single-use plastic bags for fruit and veggies went from ubiquitous to reviled almost overnight. Now ICA and Coop both offer paper bags instead. I find those bulky and clumsy so I got myself a set of reusable mesh bags instead, which I keep in my purse so I always have them with me. I never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}