Too many plastic shopping bags? - no problem

[serendipityricho]

You are a thinker Stawka.

Need plastic bags for vegie scraps.

Need the room as well.........................................Richo.

[imastawka]

Think you can manage those complicated instructions Richo?     

[ooak3]

thats clever !  i have one of those tea towel thingys you know everyone was making them 25 years ago 

friend at work made it for me and im still useing it daily lol

[Anonymous]

thankyou so much

[bright.ton42]

Some people are just so clever

I'm off to see how many I can fit in, perhaps we should have a competition

who can fit the most in?

[imastawka]

The problem is having the empty tissue box to start with.

And the size of the box

I've just started grocery home delivery, and they take the last delivery's

bags away to recycle.

[fo-trut]

Hardly a new idea, finding other uses for you used grocery bags, guess I should have copyrighted it, lol. I just tuck them little bags into a big bag that hangs from a closet doorknob. Reach in and grab a trash can liner, oh, and I put them into a couple of buckets that serve as trash cans, one in bedroom, one in bathroom, one outside of kitchen. Those full of trash go into a bigger 32 gallon trash bag when I take it to the apartment dumpster.

You can also use them for packaging items to go into storage, wrapping for breakables, and to hang on a door knob to put recipts in, if you save your recipts.

[jimmy*part4]

Great idea Stawka. They're looking to charge 5 cents apiece for those bags to encourage people to use their own bags when shopping. I might pay the 5 cents. Those reusable bags might hold bacteria and cause more problems.

I use the little plastic bags in little garbage cans in every room, but instead of putting them into a larger green bag (defeating the purpose) I just tie the handles together. 3 in a bunch....6 bags are easy to carry out in one shot.

They still end up in a land fill, but at least I'm getting multiple uses out of a single bag and never waste money on those big thick green bags that'll never deteriorate.

I keep bread in them which are already in a bag, but I notice the bread stays fresher longer. I also store things in the freezer in them which helps against freezer burn.

Some people here call them Brooklyn tree flowers. I think they do the most damage when they end up in the water...marine mammals eat them sometimes dying from them.

5 cents...worth it!

[imastawka]

Jimmy, the supermarket bags here are  biodegradeable??  Anyway, they're

made to break down pretty quickly in sunlight apparently.

You're lucky if you get them back to the car in one piece.

It's the shopping from other places that has plastic bags multiplying.

Plastic bags are totally banned in Tasmania.  

I liked that idea when I holidayed there.