Photo: Retailers New York’s ban on single-use plastic bags was supposed to go into full effect on March 1, 2020, but like most things, it was delayed by COVID-19 until October 2020. But, one place that still asked customers to bring their own bags throughout the pandemic was the Park Slope Food Co-op. In fact, they first discontinued single-use plastic bags in 2008, putting them “about 12 years ahead of the curve,” as Co-op general manager Joe Holtz puts it.
$14 at The Get Go Marfa Buy Shakespeare and Company Classic Shop Facade Tote Bag $12 $12 Alexandra Schwartz, a co-op member and New Yorker staff writer who wrote an article about the co-op in November 2019, says that reusable grocery bags are among her “weird obsessions.” During her seven years of membership, Schwartz has mostly used the same reusable bags, and stores them all in a “big heavy tote bag” from the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, where she once lived and volunteered.
$9 at New York Review Books Buy Zabar’s Essential Tote Bag $25 $30 now 17% off $25 “I’m from the Upper West Side, and I like to have a little mélange of Zabar’s in the Park Slope Food Co-op,” says Schwartz, who uses this insulated cooler-bag while shopping for frozen goods, including her Thanksgiving turkey, which she once transported from the co-op to Massachusetts in this tote.
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$79 at Lululemon Buy Baggu Drawstring Backpack $46 $46 When Corsillo takes a backpack to the co-op she opts for the “very modular” drawstring pack from Baggu, and loads “heavy groceries at the bottom, so that produce with leafy parts can stick out of the top because of the drawstring.” Corsillo also puts her toy poodle Uli in the backpack and carries her “baby Bjorn style on my front.”
$10 at Amazon Buy $6 at Eco Bags Buy Natural Home Veggie Bags $7 $7 After reading an article about plastic bags in the Linewaiter’s Gazette, the co-op’s infamous and aptly-titled newspaper, Michael Zelenko, a features editor who’s been a co-op member for nearly four years, began to think about his plastic consumption, and decided to buy a few reusable produce bags. When he’s not using an Ecobag, Zelenko opts for one of these polyester mesh bags because he likes the “slicker material.
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