I switched to reusable shopping bags along with the rest of Colorado when they enacted a ban this year and honestly prefer them now. Once you get in the habit of bringing them to stores it’s easy.

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More than 9/10 times, it’s not recyclable.

Literally less than 10% all of the plastic in the history of plastic has been recycled.

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And the 10% that is, probably shouldn’t be. The recycling process releases massive quantities of micro-plastics into our waterways, and from there into our soil, and so into our food.

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