Morning Coffee - Single Use Plastic Bags

I am not a fan of plastic. Despite this fact, it is nearly impossible to live your life plastic-free (although Beth over at Fake Plastic Fish is trying her darnedest). We have several totes and bags that go with us on shopping trips. I carry Chico Bags and Envirosax with me everywhere and, yes, they are made from plastic but they are not single use bags. They are made to travel, they are strong and compact and, if looking good is important to you, the Envirosax are pretty danged beautiful and come in a multitude of designs, sizes and color schemes.

Anyway, Beth has been an advocate for living without plastic and one of her pet projects (one of many!!) is to get rid of single use plastic bags. Well, earlier this week Los Angeles did just that by banning single use plastic bags! Yay!

Here's a snippet and a video from Beth's blog (posted on Nov. 17th):

Yesterday, L.A. County voted to ban single-use plastic bags. And this morning, Green Sangha — an organization I’ve been part of since 2007 — released an awesome new video by filmmaker Ben Zolno of New Message Media. Watch, enjoy, and please pass it on to your friends. The message is serious.  The medium is total, addictive fun.