Closets and car trunks around Ottawa are overflowing with reusable shopping bags as some shoppers admit they can’t remember to bring them back to the store and keep having to buy more.
It’s a habit one environmental expert warns is unsustainable.
“We’re treating them like single-use items, so it’s almost replacing one single-use item like the plastic bag with a reusable bag,” said Tony Walker, a professor at Dalhousie University who specializes in plastics and plastic pollution.
Ottawa shopper Chelsea Currie-Reid said she has over 50 reusable bags in her garage.
“I have so many because I buy them all the time and then I
