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Being a garbage man is a great job-- $25/hr...and all you can eat!
Even if you ask for paper bags at the PigglyWiggly for groceries, Walmart etc etc don't have them, so you wind up buried in plastic bags anyways..and as I've pointed out here so many times- plastic is made from a petroleum waste product, so no real loss, and actually some benefit in the Re-use Re-purpose Re-cycle sense to using plastic bags.
Many re- use, re-purpose jobs for plastic bags from garbage liners to organizers in shop, garage, laundry room, etc....
We have a non-chain, local grocery store here that accepts plastic shopping bags for recycling, but I'm not sure they actually do recycle them. Does anybody here know?
Plastic in the US is not made from a waste product. You've been told that many times.
Yeah. It could me made from a waste product, it could be made biodegradable, but in most cases is not. And it won't until it's a law. Everything has to be made law first, because common sense isn't enough.
For those of you that don't use plastic grocery bags, do you then purchase trash can liner bags? For your smaller trash cans, I mean.
We hoard our plastic grocery bags for re-use for everything, but mostly trash can liners. If you are buying trash can liners, doesn't that sort of negate you not getting the plastic grocery bags? We also use the bags for all sorts of other stuff.
Growing up, my mom used paper grocery bags for trash can liners. But those have their own problems, obviously. I think way back in the metal garbage can times, no one used plastic liners but just put the garbage directly in the can. That was yucky. Not nice for the poor garbage-men either.
What do you think?
Yes......but not for the reasons you might think.
Keep them around if and when the water is out for pooping in the bucket.
As for what I use in the kitchen trash can? Empty litter and feed bags.
Good luck! Most plastic shopping bags are not leak proof. At least not those around here, in Texas.
Most shopping bags are horrible around here in rural South Dakota too. Walmart used to have nice bags but now are by far the thinnest around. We still get free plastic grocery bags everyplace here. I can't remember ever buying trash can liners. Have always used grocery bags.
I mean, you have to wave them in the air so they billow out and then look into them. If you see dots of light, they have tiny holes and aren't waterproof... If they don't, then they are...
I always find plenty that are fine. The others are good for other uses (paper/tissue disposal, etc.).
I've been on a quest to eliminate plastic when possible (which is not easy), as I don't believe the chemicals it's comprised of to be healthy for living beings and I don't believe the microplastics they generate to be healthy for living beings and the environment in which we live.
As it relates to this topic, I've replaced my actual trash can, inside the house, with the paper bags I get from our local store. I'm considering purchasing paper tape to seal the bag, rather than putting the paper "can" into a plastic garbage bag to put into the big can at the curb to eliminate the need for any plastic garbage bags. I haven't worked it out to see if it's cost effective, though.
For what it's worth, I can fit as much groceries into one paper bag as I used to in five plastic bags. I'm not nearly as concerned with the emissions, as one poster pointed out, as I am the physical effects of plastic on us and the environment.
I mostly reuse shopping bags, but getting a new one every five trips or so seems to be plenty to handle garbage. It seems like I'd have to buy a lot of crap to need more bags.
Light plastic bags have been banned here for years, my state was the last to do so in 2022. Most of us have got used to bringing our own reusable bags to the supermarket but I certainly do find myself having to buy plastic bags for the small bins. We can buy paper bags at the supermarket and some stores give them out. But often I will buy an item of clothing or whatever and put it into a reusable bag I bring with me.
It can be a real pain but we are definitely using a lot less plastic overall.
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