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Personal experience - every single bag I get from the grocery store is used again to dispose of garbage. Doesn't everyone do that?
Making me buy garbage bags is much more wasteful.
Personal experience - every single bag I get from the grocery store is used again to dispose of garbage. Doesn't everyone do that?
Making me buy garbage bags is much more wasteful.
I also use a reusable bag for most my grocery shopping. I know a number of people who use cloth bags.
I do know there are programs which seek to collect plastic bags and recycle them, but I've never actually looked into what they are being used for.
If you feel like your contribution of recycling grocery store bags is meaningful, I don't think you should stop.
If the grocery store uses bio-bags then that's a win for the environment. It's all about putting pressure on those nasty 1000 year bags until we see change for the better.
That's an absurd assumption. You can purchase a small amount of ziploc style bags for such cases, which are right-sized and thus less wasteful and also are better suited for the task as they have a proper seal.
Ziploc bag with a slider seal, 15c a bag https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Slider-Storage-Bags-Count/dp/B...
Most common trash bag, 11c a bag https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Drawstring-Kitchen...
And as you correctly noted, ZipLoc bags are not a staple of most households, one needs to remember to purchase them. Trash bags are in a "must have" league with toilet paper and tooth paste.