For fruit and vegetables

Don't forget to throw a few cloth bags for fruit and vegetables in your handbag or backpack. This saves many plastic bags that often end up in the bin after one use. Storing food in cloth bags is also healthier and more natural. Tomatoes will undoubtedly taste better bought locally in an organic cotton bag than hastily thrown into a plastic bag at the supermarket. But if you don't have the option of shopping at the market, don't despair. In shops where fruit and vegetables need to be weighed, you can do this without a bag and stick a code sticker on the bag's string. Some shops also now have a 'self-bag' option at the checkout, which simply deducts the predetermined weight of the bag.