What a silly column on "going green" by suggesting we would just have to buy plastic bags to line our garbage containers instead of getting them for "free" from the stores. The idea of going green is to get off our plastic addiction (i.e. cover everything in plastic). How about rinsing out your garbage can every so often instead of buying or re-using plastic bags to line it? Nowadays, all of the food waste goes into our compost or the "yard waste" container. So the garbage containers are kept relatively clean and no need for a plastic liner. Plus the garbage truck itself is automated and our large garbage outside container is emptied cleanly into the garbage truck and so - gasp - we put loose garbage into our outside container as well and haven't seen one tissue fly off the truck so far! Let us have constructive solutions to move ahead, our children's planet does not deserve any less.

Eileen Weintraub

Lake Forest Park