Shoppers shrug off fears about toxic reusable bags

Friday, November 19, 2010 | 12:17 p.m. CST

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — So you care about the environment, and you take a reusable shopping bag with you to the grocery store to avoid polluting the planet with countless plastic sacks. Now you find out your bag is made with potentially harmful lead. What's an environmentalist to do?

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