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Corner Pub bags it
by Brian Egeston
be@brianwrites.com
Some people might call Marva Smith a bag lady. When the restaurant manager returns from a trip to see her mother in south Georgia, she usually brings a trunk filled with plastic bags. Smith takes the bags to the Corner Pub where the staff reuses the bags for to-go orders. Staff members from the Corner Pub say in more than three years, they haven’t bought a single plastic bag for to-go orders. “My mom keeps all of her bags. She’s a pack rat anyway,” said Smith. “But she gives them to me when I visit.”
The practice has spread to Corner Pub customers who bring their own plastic bags for to-go orders or donate bags to the restaurant.
The company doesn’t discriminate in the types of plastic bags it accepts. Just before opening on a Monday morning, a large Target plastic bag corralled several colors and varieties of bags from such stores as the DeKalb Farmer’s Market, Lowes and Kroger.
According to the World Watch Institute, approximately five trillion plastic bags are produced annually around the world. The World Watch Institute’s State of the World Report said roughly 80 percent of those bags were used in Western Europe and North America. Every year, Americans throw away 100 billion plastic grocery bags, which can clog drains, crowd landfills and add to community litter problems, the report stated.
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