19 Ways To Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags
So you want to be a good steward of our beautiful earth. Recycling is a great way to do your part, but in our hectic lives we often forget many of the simple things we can do. I found this great list of ways to recycle plastic bags that uses the bag in many useful ways and helps our environment.
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January 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Those are good ideas IF there is no locally available recycling program for the bags. When we get plastic bags, we use them to sort our recycling, and then they get recycled too. We take cloth bags to use at the grocery store a lot of the time (and we get a 5-cent credit for each bag) and use biodegradable BioBags in our smaller trash cans and for a lot of the other functions on the list. Hopefully, very few plastic bags make it to the landfill on our account.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
This is a good list and starts people thinking about new possibilities for bag use. My comment is that you don’t have to just reuse a bag once. Each bag can be used multiple times!
For example… it can be used to collect the trash, but then it doesn’t really have to be thrown away. What law is there that the (street) trash can has to have trash liners in it? Just dump out the contents of your trash into the street)can, and reuse the (inhouse) bag trashcan liner.
Of course if you have scooped up dog poop, that is another story. And if you have more bags than you need, take them to a dog park for dog owners to use. Un-collected excrement is an major environmental pollution in rivers and streams.
Please keep using each bag until it develops holes or tears and then find a use that doesn’t matter if it is torn (cushion for packages), etc.)
BY THE WAY: Reduce how many extra plastic bags you collect by always taking bags shopping with you. You can reuse the store plastic ones (even produce bags), paper sacks or canvas bags. If your purchase is small (say one book from a bookstore), you can even bypass the need for a bag totally. Just say NO to new bags from anywhere!
If you reuse 10 bags a week; that will be about 500 bags a year that do not have to be manufactured and thrown away for your personal use. Multiply that by all the other people doing this and the world will have less bags.
Thanks for listening,:)
March 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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