Did you know? Anthony Rants on Chips bags that can't be recycled!
@lookatdesktop (27129)
Dallas, Texas
June 7, 2019 9:21pm CST
I got a notice from the City of Dallas Sanitation Department yesterday.
On one side it gives a list of things that can be recycled and on the other side:
A list of things that can NOT! be recycled, and one such thing is a chips bag!
So what am I going to do with that empty bag once I have eaten all of the pork rinds in it? I have no real choice at the moment but to place that empty chip bag in the regular trash can for disposal by the City of Dallas Sanitation Department to pick up at the curb once a week, on a Thursday, and have it dropped off into a local LAND FILL.
So why am I ranting about this?
I had been placing those plastic chips bags in the recycle bin for years only to find out they don't want me to put it in there! So where have the manufacturer's gone wrong by making these plastic chips bags?
Is there no other material they can use to put chips in? The companies that produce chips use these non-recyclable plastic bags all over the place, putting cookies, chips, pretzels, pop-corn and a whole lot of other things inside them without first considering how much plastic waste will occur and where that plastic will end up eventually! It's like they are thinking, CONVENIENCE and PROFIT.
Yea, But don't some chips go in boxes with wax paper linings?
I know that many crackers are placed inside a sealed wax paper lined bag, then put inside a flat rectangle cardboard box that in fact, can be recycled!
But why not chips, pretzels, cookies and lots of other things?
I need to look into this for a moment then come back with a link that explains the real reason why plastic non-recyclable bags are being constantly manufactured when a possible organic solution exists for this type of packaging.
Not exactly, only there is an article about certain types of items that should never be recycled so if you are curious about that, you can click on the link below. Meanwhile, I will have to do more research about the reasons why corporate manufacturers of chips and other food items are being packaged in such a way that the plastic packaging is not considered for recycling centers in many or most major cities, at least as far as I know.
About the author of the article linked below is in the following link here:
https://greenblue.org/author/kelly/
https://greenblue.org/top-18-things-you-should-not-recycle-curbside/
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7 responses
@Ronrybs (17849)
• London, England
8 Jun 19
I think it is about time we faced up to these pollution problems, but it is inconvenient in the short term. I guess we have gotten so used to the 'plastic age' we don't think about the effects it brings in its wake. I can't remember how we used to buy our chips, or crisps, before the foil plastic bags became ubiquitous
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
8 Jun 19
@Ronrybs , If I had a carry on tote, I would just ask those chips people to fill it up and walk back home with all the chips I could eat. But they consider the packaging a selling point, and a so-called health safety protocol. They must seal the product in a way that insures long shelf life and sanitary products for safe storage, shipping and FDA approval and all kinds of things like trademark, logo authentication, resell by date application and all that jazz.
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@LadyDuck (458163)
• Switzerland
8 Jun 19
@lookatdesktop I think we can go back to many good habits of the past and stop to pollute the planet.
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Yes, lets do that. 
@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
8 Jun 19
@LadyDuck , Yes we should do our part.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
9 Jun 19
I do not feel we are to blame they know what is going on and I feel much the same as you do and I don´t buy them anyway or crisps if I can help it.
We have no idea at all whether they really do do anything with all that plastic they throw at us before here we took our own stuff to the shops to put things in and one day out of the blue I was told I cannot sell you anything unless its in a plastic bag how do you like that?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Jun 19
@lookatdesktop
I guess they thought it was the right thing and further down the line I am sure that they have changed their mind.
Everytime I put stuff in the plastics bin I am putting in there with the hope that they will do things properly.
When I was small even brown paper bags were hardly used you used to say take an empty tin and they would sell loose biscuits and you would put them in there.
I can remember taking only one shopping bag for everything.
I still don´t feel we are to blame look at what has happened and I would have thought that those kind of packets could be recycled they certainly don´t say anything here about that.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
10 Jun 19
that sounds like something from a science fiction - horror movie. Bad taste Bad Business, and poor ethics IMO!
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
13 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I found a nice article from earth911 :
https://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-plastic-wrap-film/
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
8 Jun 19
"It does come by surprise to many people that most packaging that’s flexible — meaning, you can ball it up — is not recyclable." i'm thinkin' one'd need to gather like minded folks'n force those companies to make a change. kinda like toilet paper'n paper towel plastic. why're they'n plastic to begin with?
that bein' said, we've very limited recyclin' options where i hang my hat. nobody takes glass. ya gotta drive clear 'cross town to put yer steel cans. nobody takes paper 'nly 'real' cardboard. plastics're iffy't best. plastic bags (like they try to put'cher groceries'n such'n, can be taken to wal-mart (they've a drop-off't the door here).
i wish they'd do more compostin' 'fforts'n town 'n e'en out'n the country...
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
8 Jun 19
@lookatdesktop they do what they can get by with, profit driven's most'd be. one'd think the price 'f toilet paper, such'd be dipped'n gold leaf? same with all paper goods these days....
i've a compost pile'n 'ts offspring out here. i know such's more challengin' when one lives'n town, but 'tis doable. that're fetch ya some 'f those worms 'n make 'em a lil hutch to put'cher green ('n shredded paper) clippin's 'n kitchen scraps'n.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
8 Jun 19
@crazyhorseladycx , Nice. I like that idea. I need to learn more about composting.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
8 Jun 19
Yes, making compost is the most best idea yet. They so sell individual rolls of toilet paper, wrapped in paper but they sell for a dollar each at the retail. If you pay a dollar for each roll that way, you help keep the plastic out of the equation but, pay extra money to do it. They let you buy 30 rolls in bulk only they come inside a plastic wrap. What's wrong with these corporates? Are they simply insane?
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
11 Jun 19
I don't recycle. Although plastic grocery bags I use as trash can liners sometimes and as poop bags for my cat. I also use the grocery bags when I want to give away clothes and when I get the mail from the mailbox.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
16 Jun 19
We use a plastic grocery bag to put flour in to shake and then bake chicken. It is a good way to put flavoring in flour to shake the chicken pieces in and avoid a big mess in a bowl. And I also re-use those plastic bags unless I accumulate them then I take them to the Kroger store to place in their recycle bin in the store lobby. People are so dumb, they put their paper trash in that can so the manager has to put a sign out to tell people who are kind of dumb at times, that this is a plastic grocery bag recycle bin, please don't put trash in this can! - good grief. People are dumb at times.
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@florelway (23141)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Jun 19
Maybe they should put these chips in resealable glass container or cardboard box.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
8 Jun 19
If only you could bring your own container, a box or a paper container or glass, and buy them by weight from the factory or some kind of chips dispensing warehouse. I would buy by the pound. Carry your own container. Fill it up sir. 
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
10 Jun 19
@florelway , I know a store that has candy in dispensers and paper sacks so you can get what you like and pay by weight.
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