Yes, those blue plastic recycling grocery bags pile up, often faster than the recycling does. And our home recycles just about everything, including the inner roll of the TP.
Most people have seen the drop offs to recycle the bags at the stores. Here, any curb side recyle that is NOT paper must go into those blue bags.
And yet, here my friend is filling her garbage with her extra unused blue bags! ACK! She had too many, she said, so she was throwing them out. ACK!
Worst case, you can fill a blue bag with blue bags and recycle the whole thing! Or, find other uses for them.
One personal example...inside my house is cream color carpet, cream walls, white tile floors, and cream furniture...and outside is red clay dirt. Two acres of gardening, mulching, and mud! No matter how many ice chests I fill for drinks and food before we go out to garden, there is the rule of water in, water out...and a need to come inside at some point during the day.
I keep a pullout drawer full of the bags at the back door. Slip one over each foot, tie the handles together, and walk through without leaving a trail. Works great when moving, too, all the dirt going in and out.
They also work great as a quick wrap around a loaf of bread, or anything that needs a quick cover.
I'm sure many people have many great uses for them, even before they eventually get recycled. The garbage can isn't one of them!
Recycling recycle bags
June 9th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
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June 9th, 2006 at 11:26 pm 1149895611
Thanks for the idea of using the bags for a temporary cover to dirty garden feet. I might give it a try.
June 10th, 2006 at 03:42 am 1149910941
June 25th, 2006 at 11:53 pm 1151279630
A very smart engineering student came up with a message from an environmentalist group: The world was getting filled with plastic bags.
For the past 12 years I have not bought garbage bags. I buy small trash cans and line them with grocery bags. When they are full I tie the handles and double bag them. I am have three to four bags full , I take the trash out. As for TP rolls and paper towel rolls, I use them for seedlings/ germinating delicate seeds.