Recycle Your Carrier Bags at the Enright CSA Greenhouse

Most members of the Enright CSA come each Saturday morning to collect their share with baskets, saddle bags, cloth carriers, and other reusable containers (I particularly like the market bags crocheted from old grocery carrier bags that Angie Utley makes). But no matter how diligent you are, you always seem to wind up with a few of those plastic bags from trips to the grocery store. There are plenty of ways to recycle those these days, but one way that we’d like to encourage is to bring them to the greenhouse.

It’s nice to have a few bags on hand for people who want to separate their hot peppers from mild, or slicing tomatoes from canning tomatoes and so forth; we also use them occasionally to pack up shares for people who pick up after hours. We hope everyone is conscientious about reusing the plastic bags they get at the greenhouse—bringing them back for reuse there the next time you come is an excellent, plan, in fact.

We certainly encourage reuse at the Enright CSA; food scraps and yard and field waste become compost, and many (or most) of the containers we use for produce at the greenhouse had an earlier life before we came to use them. So, it’s not so bad if you occasionally turn up with a few plastic carrier bags if you can bring a few to the greenhouse and we can keep reusing those plastic bags again and again for some produce toting.

If you have some bags to donate, just bring them along on Saturday morning when you pick up your share, and we’ll add them to our stock. And thank you for recycling!