TheSunNews.com:
The daughter of the man who helped invent the plastic bag commonly used in grocery stores is now marketing a product she hopes will replace her father’s invention.
Kristen Brown, a Pawleys Island resident who runs her own environmental consulting firm, is already selling sets of reusable plastic bags at a local Piggly Wiggly grocery store for $19.99. She hopes to meet with a dozen other grocery store chains in the next two months.
“We need to reduce our waste in order to be a sustainable world,” said Brown, 45. “We can’t continue to grow as a population and continue to generate more and more trash. We have to change our behavior if we want to sustain the Earth as it is.”
Brown’s father, Gordon Dancy, helped to introduce the plastic grocery bag about 30 years ago, she said. High-density plastic was already around, but he came up with the bag’s shape, she said.
The best thing for the environment, she said, is a reusable bag. And that’s where Brown comes in.
Her set of bags, called the My Eco Bag System, comprises four bags: one for frozen foods, one for bottles, one for fruits and vegetables, and another for other groceries. One bag doubles as a pouch for the other three bags, making it easier for shoppers to carry them to the grocery store, Brown said.
When opened, the four bags fit neatly into the shopping cart, so baggers at checkout lines can place groceries directly into the bags after they’ve been paid for, said Brown, who began working on the idea about a year and a half ago.
Photo by My Eco Bag System.