Consumer columnist and West Hartford resident Harlan Levy has more than 20 years of experience writing stories about everyday experiences that anyone could encounter.

By Harlan Levy

For decades my wife and I have stored food items in plastic sandwich and gallon bags. I’ve also been drinking Hint water in its plastic bottles for a decade. Then, after reading many articles about the release of microplastics and nanoplastics from plastic water bottles I recently stopped my Hint water habit, and, as I recently wrote, began ordering water in paper boxes, eliminating swallowing all the micro- and nano-plastics from the water bottles.

Today I’m writing about eliminating plastic sandwich and gallon bags from our kitchen, since they also release the tiny plastics, and beginning to use paper sand

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