Day 3-4

Last weekend was fairly hard, I ended up making homemade ice cream. Peppermint stick, for record its actually really good. I had to go to the store in order to buy the ingredients for the ice cream, and unfortunately, I found that the baggers no longer ask what kind of bags you want. I ended up having 3 more plastics bags, so apparently it is fairly difficult to go with out plastic bags.

Even if I used paper bags, I have heard that paper bags are just as bad for the environment because of the fuel used to log the trees and the chemicals to turn them into paper. I haven’t looked this up yet, but it seems like paper bags create a fairly big impact as well. I guess the only way to go low impact is to use re-usable bags. Even those use plastics and etc, at least they are easily re-usable…

I find it frustrating that even when a person tries to be low impact they can’t even really go grocery shopping with out making a fairly large impact. The only way to be low impact is to go to farmers markets. And at least around me, farmers markets are usually only 1 day a week if that. Therefore, when I want to make ice cream, I’d have to plan at least a week in advance. Not cool.



-Ben