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Teach Kids to Bring Their Own Bag

Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA

Jasmin Malik Chua

By Jasmin Malik Chua
Jersey City, NJ, USA | Sun Mar 23 17:21:00 GMT 2008

My Bag and Me


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Books | Disposable | Kids | Paper | Plastic | Plastic Bags

Illustration credit: Gary Currant/Penton Kids Press, used with permission

Help your child ditch the disposable-bag habit, before it even begins, by picking up My Bag and Me! (2008, Penton Kids Press), a 100 percent recyclable board book by Karen Farmer and Gary Currant that follows a little boy and his reusable shopping bag on a trip to the supermarket:

Let's take trip
to our favorite store
where My Bag and Me say,
"Paper and plastic no more!"

Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, according to popular estimates. One the other hand, notes the Sierra Club, a sturdy reusable bag only needs to be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags.

To help your child tip the ecological scale, the book includes a reusable Tyvek bag just like the one in the book, so your ankle-biter can tote it along on your next shopping trip. ::Penton Kids Press

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