Which do you use?

I use plastic from the stores. I do use some for trash bags in small cans. I take my left over to the recyclers bin. But I do ask for a few Paper I use them to slid my News Papers in to take to the recyclers.

 

I use plastic bags for the most part, but I plan to sew some sturdy cloth bags as soon as I get the time.

We're planning to start a compost pile, and I've stopped buying most pre-packaged convenience foods and started canning fruits and vegetables. It's amazing how much less trash you have when you can food and simply use the same jars over and over instead of tossing metal cans in the trash. I'm not a treehugger or anything, but have started doing this for allergy and health reasons.

 

When you mentioned the word "disposable," I remember years ago before the invention of disposable baby diapers, our church's nursery staff were always asking folks to drop off any extra plastic bags that they might have so that the staff could use them to hold
each child's soiled diapers.

They would then place the plastic bag containing the soiled diapers in that child's baby bag so that the parent could wash them at home.

Maybe some nurseries still use plastic bags to hold soiled disposable diapers. Since I've never had any children and am now 60+ years old, I don't keep up with the latest trends in nurseries.

I do, however, recall this one church that had found a proof text in the New Testament for the existence of nurseries:

"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"
-- I Corinthians 15:51b

 

I "use" whatever bags (usually plastic) in which the store bags whatever it is that I buy. Either kind will serve, and coupled with the bags from the dog food and cat food I always have enough to put the household trash into, so I can burn the burnable trash later, whether in the stove in the winter for heat, reducing the need for wood (we don't use coal, anymore, unlike when I was a child), or in the 'burn barrel' in the summer. (Solid garbage, such as cans and glass, goes into the dog and cat food bags for the landfill.)

Since I generally would get more bags than I actually need for this purpose, given the penchant of 'checkers' to place three items in a bag which would actually hold eight, then start another bag, or unnecessarily bag some things (The 'why?' that anyone of supposedly half-way average intelligence would actually place a six-pack of cans of Pepsi®, with its own carrying 'handle' or a six-pack of toilet tissue, that is already wrapped in its own plastic covering, inside a plastic bag with no additional room for any other item is 'still beyond me,' but I still have to tell the average bagger at my friendly local WAL*MART® not to do so, just the same, almost every time.), and any larger items, such as cans of juice, a six-pack' of soda, a gallon of milk (no, it will not spoil during the < 20 minutes it takes me to drive home from the store and place it in the refrigerator, although I probably would not recommend this procedure were I to be gone an additional six hours before returning home in the middle of the summer, leaving it in the car where the temp hits 120*F), or a box of detergent, I will have them not put in any bag (usually with them questioning me to ask if I'm sure I don't want it in a bag, immediately after telling them this, no less), therefore I have few extras to dispose of.

Seems reasonable enough, don't you think??

Ed

 

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Plastic because i need a bigger carbon footprint! Just kidding, they only offer plastic around here but they get reused for small garbage cans, lunch sacs and on occassion they even make some pretty good luggage!

 

I reuse my plastic bags or recycle them. I would use cloth if I didn't have to get 20 to 30 bags of groceries per trip

 

I was in Colorado several years ago, and I went to a grocery store for some groceries. I noticed some women outside carrying signs when I went in but really didnt pay any attention to them.

When I came out carrying two bags of groceries, thislittle woman blocked my way, and said "Do you have any disposable diapers in those bags?'

I promptly told her that it wasnt any of her danged business, and to get out of my way. I guess now times have changed, but back then, in my hometown in Arkansas, noone would ever have thought to protest diapers, much less confront a 260 lb man about them.

I have forgotten now...which is better for the evironment? the burning of paper or the hope that all plastic bags will get recycled.....(which they dont)??????

AJ

 

I'm torn. I use plastic bags because their more durable than paper sacks. But with one I'm filling the landfills and with the other I'm killing more trees.

Tongue in cheek, but I suspect some people really have those concerns.


By the way, you know what we call plastic bags around this part of the country--particularly Wal-Mart bags?

Kentucky Luggage.

 

It's a shame you didn't have any USED disposable diapers to give her at that moment!

 

Wife prints photos on cloth bags and we give them out to people as special gifts for anniversaries, birthdays or just for the fun of it.

We have one large garbage bag which costs $1.00 and we are only allowed one small plastic bag inside it,,,for personal garbage....the large bag is clear plastic so the dumpman can see the contents.

We recycle everything and only visit the local dump once a month.

Cheers,

Jim

PS. The residue from our grandson's diaper finds its way to our composter! It works!