Environmental Unawareness

The extent to which people here seem to lack any kind of environmental awareness amazes me. Someone at the supermarket stands there and puts stuff into plastic bags for you. Never mind that you stand there, fairly redundant while they do that for you. Sometimes they put such a small amount of stuff into a plastic bag, it's amazing. Yesterday, one bag had a tube of toothpaste in it. The milk comes in gallon containers, which have a handle for carrying - never mind, they'll put it in a bag anyway. But, because the bags are a bit flimsy - they'll put it in two!