I am trying to reduce and eventually completely stop my use of plastic. However, there is one area that I seem to have trouble with: I use plastic bags I sometimes get from grocery stores for my garbage bags. Now, I don't throw out a lot other than compost (I live in an apartment, and my city goes through garbage and composts anyway) and a few other un-recyclable materials (something I am trying to reduce). However, I still need to put the waste in something. I do not want to continue using plastic bags.
Any ideas? All I can think of is placing the waste directly in the garbage can, but that would mean that things would rot to the bottom and I would have to constantly clean it (which also uses resources and is pretty gross). Is that my only option? I was also thinking of only using those biodegradable plastic bags that some grocery stores supply. But I don't even know if those things work if they're piled under a mile of more garbage. I was also thinking paper bags, but they aren't very good for wet waste. What do you think is best? I know that nothing is going to be perfect, but I am just wondering if there are any ideas out there that I haven't thought of yet.
Yeah, it's a quandary. Even though I use some plastic bags for trash, I really attempt to only use bags that are pretty worn out. The other ones (the cleaner ones, that is) go to either the local Food Share for folks to take bakery items home in, or to the library for folks that don't have book bags.
When it comes to handling garbage, I tend to stick with plastic garbage bags.
I do this because we live in an older neighborhood and Victorian homes nearby may have roaches. With all of the flipping going on, many roaches will move from one home to another. If there are the regular paper grocery bags and paper towel dowels around, they use them for breeding.
So, in this instance, I stick with what I have been doing.
When it comes to handling garbage, I tend to stick with plastic garbage bags.
I do this because we live in an older neighborhood and Victorian homes nearby may have roaches. With all of the flipping going on, many roaches will move from one home to another. If there are the regular paper grocery bags and paper towel dowels around, they use them for breeding.
So, in this instance, I stick with what I have been doing.
I know that diapers are not earth-friendly, but I just can't get myself to switching to cloth ones. I am a little worried about how to go about it, and I just don't know how to fit another extra chore of washing the diapers into my day.
I wonder about what to use, either cloth or disposible diapers, if, and when I am a mother... I tell myself Id use cloth, but the closer it comes, the less i think ill actually do the cloth deal.
All the stores just sell the biodegradable garbage bags now. They are worse than useless, they split as soon as you use them so you end up using far more bags and I get so frustrated that I use other bags instead.
I like using grocery store bags in the bathroom trash can. I usually get one or two grocery store bags per week, which coincides with how many times I empty my bathroom trash.
over here more and more supermarkets are starting to use part recycled plastic bags or biodegradeable bags so it is less of a problem... unitl all grocery bags are made of biodegradeable plastic, at least by reusing them you are makingthem a little less wasteful..
I agree, this is a matter of mitigation until we eventually achieve total elimination. By finding ways to reuse and then ultimately recycle the plastic bags, we are making the best we can out of a situation. And I hadn't even considered the roach factor that Twiceshy mentioned.
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