Design
What to Do With a Glut of Reusable Bags
One woman's quest to give away all the extra grocery bags she's collected
Beth Zeigler is a professional organizer in Los Angeles. Her clients tend to be affluent professionals in neighborhoods like Silver Lake, an east side enclave popular with up-and-coming musicians and film industry executives alike.
Sorting through their drawers and closets, Zeigler discovered an awkward irony: they were often awash with reusable bags, picked up for free at entertainment industry events or purchased on impulse at Whole Foods. Intended to reduce plastic waste, reusable bags were themselves becoming a burden. "They just build up, clogging drawers, cabinets and the other nooks and crannies where we shove them," she says.