My mother used to come home from the market with eleven .
Each had its own bag, and the bags went into a drawer that was always full.
Last year she began taking two bags and four small boxes.
The boxes are for meat and fish, which are the hardest things to carry without plastic.
The were surprised for about a week and then simply remembered her.
Two of them now put her vegetables straight into her bag without being asked.
My mother says the change was easy at the market and difficult at the supermarket.
Everything there is already before she arrives.
A cannot solve that part, and a shop can.
We now use about one bag a week, which is ten fewer than before.