Sunday 29 September 2019
This bag is not green or black; it is blank, and as empty as possible. Make it yours for no money down.
Stop working unpaid advertising for cosporations. It's easy Reject their bags and bring your own. Even better if you can resist all the pressures to buy more. Make your blank bag an empty one as often as you can.
Anti-consumers of the world unite! That bag you may be carrying, harmless receptacle, limp, passive-seeming, its fellow plastic brothers and sisters silently eloquent, lining the oceans of the world, is crying one thing, "Buy More",even when it says it's "green". Buy green, buy responsibly, buy union made, but bring your own blank bag for the contents. The logo-printed bag exists to hold whatever you buy while advocating more buying, and our climate tells us we have bought and consumed enough already. What's really in the bag, triumphant connotations aside, even if you didn't buy anything today, is the cash machine of the company whose name is on the outside. Free it may be to have, but you're an unpaid advertiser like it or not.
Dump the bag; there are lots of plain ones available. Green consumerism may be better than the un-green kind, but consumerism it remains.
# posted by Taodhg @ 7:46 am 
