Which do you use?

I don't throw away plastic bags unless they rip open.

 

Right now I have one cloth bag that I take to Aldi's where we bag our own groceries. (They offer cloth and heavy duty plastic bags for sale) You can also grab your own cardboard boxes there from the grocery aisles to use and I do that and then recycle them.

Anywhere else I get the plastic bags and reuse them as trash bags in the house and "poopie" bags in my yard for the dog. If they're ripped when I unpack my groceries, I put them in the recycling.

 

Plastic bags, which I also use for trash bags. I have not bought 'trash bags' for 3 or 4 years. And I still have plenty of plastic bags to take the Wal-Mart's recycle box.

 

Then I recycle, sort of, and use as trash bags.

 

You do know those plastic bags are recyclable, you just take them to any store with the recycle barrels, usually somewhere near the door, sometimes even outside. When we had a Winn Dixie they had a barrel. I've seen a few others, but don't recall where.

 

A lot of those places recycle them out to the trash bin. I can do that, using my own trash, and not buying bags.

 

Apparently plastic grocery bags are actually being recycled, because you can buy products made from them. There just aren't enough places to recycle them at. Or rather to take to them to be recycled.

 

I carry cloth bags in the trunk of my car and use them all the time. I have grocer's double bag ice cream, meat, etc., in plastic before putting them in the cloth bags. These bags, I recycle in my many waste baskets.

There is not a lot of recycling going on with plastic bags because it costs a lot more to recycle them than it does to make new ones.

Their recycling bins = landfills.

 

putting them in the trash can is still putting them in a landfill. It's only true recycling if it's not going to the lanfill, but being used for somethng else.

 

That's true, but if they are not empty when you throw them in the trash bin, they don't fly around like they do when they have something in them, i.e. trash, etc., and kill animals and stop up sewerage plants, pollute rivers and all that yucky stuff.

 

Claims that plastic bags are not recycled are false.

http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/plastic.htm

http://www.enviroaffairscouncil.org/blog/2008/04/corporate-green.html

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/bordered-pencil-case-from-recycled-plastic-bags

 

So you've never seen a plastic bag burst open. Especially when being moved around by the hugh machinery they use in landfill, which not only bursts the bag, but empties it too.
I've never seen anyone who believed putting something in the landfill = recycling.
I guess, under those guidelines, landfill = recycling, I recycle all my plastics and have for years.

 

I agree about the use of oil for plastics.
but I still say, if your putting it in the landfill it isn't recycled. This goes against the defination and purpose of recycling.

 

Plastic - I reuse them when I clean the cat litter boxes!

We said we were not going to get any more cats - six was enough. We now have four more - a momma and her three kittens!

Ten cats - hard to believe!