I don't normally pimp products, especially when I don't own stock in the company, but after
royalbananafish's excellent post on all the plastic now in the ocean, I really want to let everyone know that a very simple solution is ChicoBags. They're light and washable but very big and strong, they come in wonderful colors, and best of all they have a little pocket on the inside so you can fold them up into themselves, making a small neat little bundle. I carry four with me all the time, so I don't find myself with a basketful of groceries and no bag with me. I used to accumulate wads and wads of bags to recycle, and now hardly any at all. If you don't use Chicos, use something else that works for you. No more plastic bags!
ETA, Unrelated: A bug is crawling on my computer screen and I was trying to knock it off with the cursor...there are probably jokes about people like me.
ETA, Unrelated: A bug is crawling on my computer screen and I was trying to knock it off with the cursor...there are probably jokes about people like me.