Okay! Like the MAHA thread, lol, this one gets me going, but in a different way! At least this topic makes me laugh, all the way to the store and back. Ready, set, go!
Plastic grocery bags are banned here now; some stores will provide paper but most require you to bring your own "reusable" bags (or purchase the ones for sale that are displayed at the checkout). I used to reuse those plastic grocery bags for different things (hasn't everybody) but now I have to purchase more plastic bags for that. Trash can liners, dog poop picker uppers, etc. Did the plastic grocery bag manufacturers come up with the "ban the free plastic bags" idea to make you buy their other plastic bags?
Almost everything you buy is wrapped in plastic: cheese, rice, pasta, produce (although that is easier to avoid), meat, name it. You walk out of the store with your reusable bags and almost everything in them is wrapped in plastic! And some of my old reusable bags are...plastic!
It's impossible. I have tried to avoid plastic altogether. A few years ago, I went to the grocers determined to not buy anything in plastic. It was just a challenge and a game to see if I could do it (I do that kind of thing pretty often, kind of an experiment of my own making, lol). Well, that lasted about three minutes when I realized it was gonna be a hungry week.
I have done a few things like instead of using plastic containers for storage, I use glass (Pyrex). I like it much better because it doesn't stain, it doesn't melt in the microwave, and I can pour boiling hot food into it and put it in the freezer. Oh! But wait! the lids are plastic...so I don't fill the glass container to the top. Don't let the food touch the lid!!!
For some things, I will use canning jars, which so far seem safe. Meats are repackaged in aluminum foil (will the Alzheimer's get me for that? in which case I will forget about the whole plastic thing so it won't matter?) but I would do that anyway because the prepackaged portions are too large. Can one get that freezer paper these days? Perhaps I will check into that; will they find something deadly in it and it may kill me after I have used it for 50 years? Crap.
Funny that some stores are now offering paper; we went from paper to plastic in order to Save The Trees! What? Are the trees now dispensable? Noooooo! Not the Trees!!! Instead, we switched to plastic to kill ourselves; at least we could be buried or sprinkled under the trees.
And if I repackage everything that comes in plastic, what to do with that plastic? Supposedly, certain specially marked plastic can be recycled only once. Then it goes into the landfill. Some items are marked, "Made from Recycled Materials"; so does that mean that product as been "processed"? Noooo! And I just realized my cigarettes are also packaged in plastic! wth? Are they trying to kill me, too?