COVID Deals a Blow to Recycling

We did a lot of good things for recycling in our home.

We have used our own bags for years to eliminate our need for plastic bags.

Now we are awash in plastic bags.  At least our local grocery store has begun offering the old standby paper bag as a plastic bag alternative.

We had recently started using reusable mesh produce bags, but they are also no longer welcome.

We usually use the few produce bags we gather for holding trash we collect on park walks, but have stopped picking up trash with the potential for virus contamination.  Instead we now use a few to dispose of paper from the shredder,but there are many, more plastic produce bags than we can ever fill with shredded paper.

The real trash generator is coming from carry-out.  We still mostly cook, but we are using take-out from a quartet of our favorite restaurants.

There will be many losers from the pandemic.  It seems the environment will be among them.