Since I was a Lil' Baby DJ, I've had a soft spot in my heart for the environment.  Not sure how or why, but it's always been there.

Over the last few years, I've felt that "spot" grow larger and larger.  It wasn't the Al Gore movie or anything...it may be because I haven't seen a REAL snowstorm in about 7 years...or maybe it's simply because I want my daughter to have a better place to live (sorry for the sappy).

Either way, I'll be the 1st to tell you I really dislike preachy people.  You make your own decisions about turning off unneeded lights in your home, using energy efficient bulbs, using Mass Transit, not making items in your life so disposable (cel phones), etc. 

I know how hard it is to make changes, you come around when you're ready.

But there's one simple, easy change you can make tomorrow...

Don't get the plastic bag with your Subway sandwich!

I'm not trying to call out Subway or make them look bad...but the plastic bag is virtually pointless.

Think about it:  When you get your sandwich, you'll have it inside that bag, what?  2-3 minutes while you go back to work?  Or worse, they put it in the bag, for you to walk 5 feet to sit in the store/mall, and remove your food from the bag.  Your food probably spent less than 90 seconds inside that bag.

Then what?  The bag has no secondary purpose.  Except to sit in a landfill, and never break down (because it's made of plastic).

It's "one small step" that I undertook after watching a series on VBS.tv called Garbage Island.  One of the reseachers brought up how useless the Subway bags were and I thought "DUH!  She's right!" 

Since then, I've told one person at a time.  The first was Vibegrrl (she converted).  She then told her boyfriend (he converted).  I had a long talk with Josh, who works @ our sister station Big 100.3 (they play hippie music), he went on the air and talked about it.  One of his listeners sent him this:

I'm with ya, Judith!  (Except for the "Hug a Tree" hippie crap ;->)

Why can't Subway simply ASK if we NEED the bag?  Most of us don't.

Here's a link to Subway's site where they discuss their efforts on going green.   I think what they're doing is awesome...but it would be awesom-er if they went "one small step" further: ASK if we need a bag.  And only accept the bag if you really need it.

If you stopped accepting Subway bags 20 times a year, that's 20 fewer Subway bags in a landfill somewhere.  And if you could get a friend to join you, you'd double the amount.  20 or 40 bags may seem insignificant, but it's "one small step"...and when you tell a friend, they might tell friends, and before you know it...

This thing could be gone FOREVER!*

*Forever being a relative term, considering there's probably millions of these clogging up landfills already with no sight of them breaking down anytime soon.

Leave me a comment and lemme what you think.  You can also e-mail me at: dm@hot995.com.  Also, please feel free to click the blog header and e-mail it to your friends to get them thinking (or saying "No no...No bag, thanks").