Current Events > Do you save the plastic bags you get from shopping?

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I do. They can come in handy.
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for 10 a bag, yea.

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Yeah, I use them as garbage bags for the bathroom and nursery

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Yeah. They fill all my small trash cans or if I need to take my lunch to work.

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Yes, I use them for edging

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My city banned them months ago. Luckily I always saved them so I have a big supply. Now we have to use paper or reusable ones

Yep for small trash cans.
Did you know that recycling companies won't even bother recycling them?
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Zurkon posted...

Yeah, I use them when I scoop the cat box

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Yeah boiii.

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Zikten posted...

My city banned them months ago. Luckily I always saved them so I have a big supply. Now we have to use paper or reusable ones

Same here. I buy bags from Amazon, buy online (in general), or in neighbouring communities instead. Reusable bags are so bad for the environment its insane.

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Yeah. I use them as masks.

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Used to use them as bin liners, but since they're banned I started taking a duffel bag when doing my groceries.

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Doesnt everyone have a plastic grocery bag full of empty plastic grocery bags?

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yeah i use them to suffocate people

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hike4safety posted...

Doesnt everyone have a plastic grocery bag full of empty plastic grocery bags?

It's literally right next to my side door.

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My state outlawed plastic bags long ago.

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Aristoph posted...

It's literally right next to my side door.

Its so damn convenient

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Accolon posted...

Yeah, I use them as garbage bags

This, but I have so many of them I've started using those fabric bags when shopping

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Yes, I use them for edging

The only right answer.

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I wish, so handy. They have been banned for years here

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Yeah, but from next month I'll prob not buy as much since they will double the price for them, that is they add tax for them pretty much the same price as they are.

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AbstraktProfSC2 posted...

yeah i use them to suffocate people

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Use them for the bathroom and picking up dog poop on walks.

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of course i save them.

trash bags for truck car house
food (take out & fridge storing)
recycling

i fold them in tight squares and tie them in a way that can be easy to store and easy to use. i have a plastic bag dispenser those folded bags are in and all i do i reach in the slot to pick them up when needed.


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I stopped buying them a few years back and got a cloth bag for shopping. Still have a bunch of them in the drawer though. Buying actual garbage bags was cheaper in the end and supposedly better for the environment.

Wow, I'm one of the few who doesn't save them

Fact is, I saved them very briefly. Maybe for a couple months. But I always had too many. And I'm not saving a significant amount of money by keeping trash in my house, so I throw them away

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Yes, they make great condoms

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We use them as trash bags for my brother's diapers. However New York is banning them as of March 1st, and the store our family regularly shops at has already gotten rid of them, so once our supply has run out I'm not sure what we're going to do. Regular garbage bags are expensive and while they're larger, once there's a poop-filled diaper it's going to have to be taken out whether it's full or not. Plus they can't simply be hung on the side of his bed easily like the grocery bags could.

I will admit the reusable bags are actually much better for groceries though, last week I was able to carry all the bags from the car to the house in two trips instead of like six or seven. And it is better for the environment too. I don't like how the cashiers always have to ask if we're buying the bags or if they're already ours though. Like they aren't demanding proof or a receipt or anything, but I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just buy one store's reusable bags and use them at another's. Or if they would even allow that. Or if we should just get a permanent marker and write our name in huge letters on all the bags.

tl;dr: Yes, but not much longer

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Yes, as garbage bags. I live alone and between that and the recycling program, I'd go months before I filled a normal garbage bag.

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Accolon posted...

Yeah, I use them as garbage bags for the bathroom and nursery

same. i keep some in both bathrooms.

Yep, use them for all the bathroom trash cans and for dog poop.

I have like 20,000 of them though and could probably last several years off what I currently have but I'm gonna keep adding to it.

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Try to

We have tote bags too, a ban seems inevitible even if its years away, I dont want that. But it will happen

I use them to pack my lunch for work everyday.

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yes But only to recycle them.

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Yep. I use then for all sorts of things. Cat litter, trash bags for small trash cans, for lunch, etc...

hike4safety posted...

Doesnt everyone have a plastic grocery bag full of empty plastic grocery bags?

Yes. I have many, tbh...
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Yes to storing garbage. I'll probably have to start buying bags and learning how to compost soon.

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When I used to take plastic bags, yes. I don't use plastic bags anymore.

Yep. Most places give "non disposable" bags here in cali and it's nice to have those. Even corner stores that sneak bu giving disposables I can use for garbage bags in my room and den.