Green Living by Janet Marchant: Plastic Bags!

I'm sure if you are like me, or aspiring to be as green as me, you probably have a closet absolutely stuffed full of plastic bags from Safeway, Walgreens, and so on. Getting thousands of plastic bags every week is just a fact of modern life. You can't avoid them. They literally do grow on trees, after all! (Pictured is a Bag tree over near the Crab Cove Visitor's Center.)


As you can see from the photos below, not only do wild animals love plastic bags, but you can use those same bags to build even more wild animals!




This adorable plastic polar bear won't even maul you if you get too close to her egg-carton cubs. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of wildlife I want in my environment.