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Cat boxes should be scooped DAILY, so that's a minimum of 7 bags a week, just for cats.
I refuse plastic bags when they're offered and they were banned by my city but yet they always seem to find a way into our home one way or another. I actually wait until I have a nice collection and then I recycle as much plastic as I can (and I'm fortunate to live in a city that takes a lot of plastics).
We use a lot of empty food packaging for cat litter and household waste. If the packaging is recyclable I will recycle it before using it for waste, so most of the time we use things like empty chip bags and the larger sized goldfish crackers.
I wish we didn't need a box, but my cats are FIV+ so they can't go outside.
Another way I reuse those bags is to collect them, then hand off the ones I don't use to friends and neighbors who are always begging us for them because they use the bacteria-laden "reusable" bags for their groceries.
As I wrote earlier, I use biodegradable bags for my cat poop waste. These are made from plants like corn, and a variety of companies make them. The brand I buy is called "Biobags".
If I can find biodegradable bags in a Wal-Mart in the boonies of South Dakota, the rest of you can too. And if you buy the kind made from corn, you are supporting American farmers.
I refuse plastic bags when they're offered and they were banned by my city but yet they always seem to find a way into our home one way or another. I actually wait until I have a nice collection and then I recycle as much plastic as I can (and I'm fortunate to live in a city that takes a lot of plastics).
We use a lot of empty food packaging for cat litter and household waste. If the packaging is recyclable I will recycle it before using it for waste, so most of the time we use things like empty chip bags and the larger sized goldfish crackers.
I wish we didn't need a box, but my cats are FIV+ so they can't go outside.
I don't consume bread, chips, crackers, croutons....so none of those bags are ever in my house. It would also be tough to take those on a dog walk!
Yeah...I'll stick with my plastic bags. It works great for me.
We generally clean all of our litter boxes once/week through the winters. In the summer all of our cats live outside, so litter boxes are seldom used.
ONCE A WEEK?! Ewww.
I do not let my cats roam...too many coyotes, cars, and hawks here.
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As I wrote earlier, I use biodegradable bags for my cat poop waste. These are made from plants like corn, and a variety of companies make them. The brand I buy is called "Biobags".
If I can find biodegradable bags in a Wal-Mart in the boonies of South Dakota, the rest of you can too. And if you buy the kind made from corn, you are supporting American farmers.
There's no excuse for using plastic bags.
Well, yes, there is. I get the plastic bags free from the stores I shop. I actually double bag things so I get enough bags! I'd have to BUY bags to scoop litter and big up dog poo. As I mentioned earlier, I re-use a lot bags a week - 2 per dog per day and 1 per cats per day. I also re-use the bags as bathroom trash liners, so 3 bathrooms in my house...do the math!
I don't consume bread, chips, crackers, croutons....so none of those bags are ever in my house. It would also be tough to take those on a dog walk!
Yeah...I'll stick with my plastic bags. It works great for me.
I hear you about the dog walks. I was a professional pet sitter and dog walker until last month and at first I was using the biobags for dog poop, but then I read up on it and was sad to learn that although a lot of it does decompose, not all of it will and the process to make them has it's ecological drawbacks.. and they're a pain to use too . My neighborhood gives them out freely at the dog waste stations or my clients would provide them. Sometimes I would bring along some bags I'd pick up from the ground or whatever, but yeah, I used them too...not without regret, but I used them.
Cat boxes should be scooped DAILY, so that's a minimum of 7 bags a week, just for cats.
I use plastic produce bags too. And I scoop every other day. Plus my mom gave me a huge pile of plastic grocery bags not too long ago, so I have a pretty good stash, actually, but every once in a while I have them put whatever won't fit in my cloth bags in plastic on my bigger shopping trips
My town just banned plastic grocery bags though, so I'll have to start buying rolls of poo bags at the pet store when I run out
When I go out frequently on long photographic sessions, into the swamps or forests, I carry two plastic grocery bags. One to carry the litter I find and the other to put over the camera (on a monopod), in case it rains. I also use them to keep vegetables and fruit from drying-out in the refrigerator. I use a few paper bags to hold my recycled paper and small pieces of cardboard in the recycling bin.
However, getting my groceries in paper has one big drawback. If it rains when I'm walking the 1/3-mile from the bus stop, the bags will melt and I'll be without any means to get the groceries home. Unexpected rain has caught me twice and I had to hide my groceries behind a bush at a stranger's house, until I could run home and get a backpack. This problem comes up if I'm in a nearby, more politically-correct town, that has an ordnance against issuing plastic grocery bags. So there's no unplanned grocery shopping there, unless the weather is good or I happened to be carrying a big backpack.
Most places near me do not offer paper bags, though supposedly a tax will be placed on plastic bags soon.
I usually have reusable shopping bags or I get the plastic bags and I ALWAYS reuse them.
Actually, my plastic bags ARE my garbage bags, since I live in a small apartment and I have a small pail underneath my sink. So, I never buy garbage bags.
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. My neighborhood gives them out freely at the dog waste stations or my clients would provide them. Sometimes I would bring along some bags I'd pick up from the ground or whatever, but yeah, I used them too...not without regret, but I used them.
