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We hear the advice all the time: Wash your hands. Well, you might want to wash your grocery bags, too. With all the reusing, they're getting kind of gross. The Chicago Tribune reports that they might even make you sick.
Maybe we should just start eating our food right from the market stands.
Anyone know of reusable bags that are more washable or less germy?
Baltimore Sun photo by Kim Hairston
Tim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.
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Comments
I think most reusable grocery bags can be cleaned. I treat my reusable bags like all anything else that needs to be cleaned. Cloth bags go in the washer with other grimy clothes. Non-cloth bags get a soap and hot water treatment followed by a spray down with full strength vinegar. Good as new. I know some folks have bags with with funky textures. A scrub brush would clean out all the nooks and crannies.
Posted by: locallady | May 29, 2009 3:59 PM
I put any meat/chicken I'm buying in the clear plastic bags (the kind in the produce section) to prevent any leakage getting on my other items. And I wash my re-usable bags from time to time. To go back to all plastic all the time is ridiculous!
Posted by: Kris | May 30, 2009 9:33 AM