While throwing items away when we are done using them can seem like the easiest thing to do, but it is very rarely the best thing to do for the environment. A good example of a way to reuse is not using those plastic bags we get from the grocery store. Where I live, we had a plastic bag ban which is no longer in use at the moment because of COVID. It is much better for the environment to bring your own reusable bags than using the store’s plastic bags that easily get holes in them and most people don’t recycle. Using reusable bags when at the grocery store is a good way to reduce your carbon footprint.

It is good to bring reusable bags to stores but not all people have reusable bags, bit what people can do that don't have reusable bags is some stores will take plastic bags back and recycle them so instead of throwing them away you can bring them back to the store so they can be recycled.

Getting in the habit of reusing and recycling will help lower carbon emissions because there will be less pollution and less factory making of the product. Solutions like bringing reusable bags to the supermarket, or reusing plastic containers, or not even buying plastic in the first place could help the climate and lower the pollution.