Plastic bags
This is a perfect example of why I often have a hard time applying my New England lifestyle back home in Florida. It's constantly considered weird to be at all environmentally friendly.
greenerMIAMI goes and attempts to re-use a plastic grocery bag at Publix (something that we did all the time at the Co-Op in Hanover):
Me (to bagger): "I brought my own bag, thanks, just use this one."Bagger: Gives me a strange look, but comprehends. Puts bananas, cream cheese in my bag.
Cashier: Bagging my bread in a new bag.
Me: "I brought my own bag."
Cashier: Gives me really strange & confused look.
Me: "I only want to use the bag I brought." Take bread out of new bag.
Cashier: Throws new bag that bread was in for 2 seconds directly into trash.
Me: "Don't throw it out!"
Cashier: Confused. "Why?"
(read the rest of the exchange here)
Of course, the flip side to this is that if one person's doing it, that's fantastic and makes it that much easier for the next person who does it, and the next, and so on - and somebody's gotta start the ball rolling...