Plastic Bag Environment Now

 Since early January 2022....if you walk into a German grocery....your plastic bag option is pretty limited.  

You can find thin and small bags over in the vegetable/fruit area, and in the meat department.  That's it.

At the check-out counter where you used to be able to 'buy' carry-home plastic bags?  That option is gone.  We are on a mission to save the Earth....so those bags are forbidden.

Your options?  First, you can put the items back into your cart....wheel it to the car, and place them in some big container to take home/into the house.  Second, you can still buy paper bags (usually 25 cents)....because they aren't 'evil' (at least not yet).  Third, you can tote your stuff in a picnic basket.  Fourth, you can buy and re-use the big heavy-duty fabric bag with the grocery logo on it (figure 3 to 4 Euro for this).

All of this leading to 'feeling' good about your grocery take-home habits?  More or less.  To be honest, on my list of 12,000 worries....this probably didn't rate on that list.