I re-use the plastic bags that come from the grocery store in my kitchen garbage and bathroom garbage cans. I fill the kitchen bag about once every 2 weeks, the bathroom can go for 2-4 weeks.
My city recycles so much that I end up recycling 70-80% of what would normally go in the garbage.
In the new year, I plan to use my
Envirosax bags for all grocery shopping, and to buy biodegradable bags for the cat litter, hopefully to phase out the plastic grocery bags to just 3-4 per month for trash.
Unless it had soup, something greasy, or raw meat in it, I wash and re-use ziploc bags.