The best bag to place your vegetables and fruit in is a fine mesh bag that can be reused over and over then laundered when dirty. Mesh bags have a lifetime of a couple of years as opposed to the plastic bags which clutter our landfills. Local health food stores, Co-ops and farmers markets may have mesh bags for produce in your area. If you are having a hard time finding fine mesh bags you can try making them or there are a couple of places online that sell them. Fine mesh bags for produce are expensive but when you add up the savings to the environment think of all of the plastic you’ll keep out of the landfill.

The only trick to using mesh bags is to remember to put them back in your car and use them whenever you go shopping.