Saving on plastic waste
By 41Combedale
@41CombedaleRoad (5966)
Greece
August 26, 2021 11:13am CST
Do you give more thought now to plastic waste, since we are so aware of the damage it is doing? It is still difficult to avoid one use plastic bags but my daughter gave me a tip a year ago which I have implemented ever since. She told me to re-use the bags in cereal boxes. Since we have cornflakes and other cereals for breakfast we do get a couple of bags every week. Since then I have hardly needed to buy any small plastic bags for wrapping food. I just use these. They are big enough to be practical and small enough not to take up too much room.
Best of all they can be used and washed innumerable times. They are really tough.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
26 Aug 21
I recently bought some paper towels from Walmart. The large package of 24 rolls were wrapped in plastic of course, but each roll was individually wrapped in plastic! Why???
So wasteful and bad for our planet.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5966)
• Greece
28 Aug 21
Sadly we still have a long way to go. A complete mindset is needed. I should stop buying meat from the supermarket as it comes in plastic containers.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
28 Aug 21
@41CombedaleRoad Would you have somewhere else to buy meat? We eat a lot of venison that my husband shoots in the fall and then we freeze it.
@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
26 Aug 21
I use the “grocery bags” as trash can liners. That saves me money by not having to buy them, and it reuses the bags.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
26 Aug 21
I also use walmart bags for can liners, picking veggies from the garden, and other things.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
24 Aug
I used to use them as can liners in the kitchen. Now we just use regular bags. But we use every plastic bag we can (and typically they are used to line the smaller cans in the bathrooms and laundry room). I have to admit, I probably have a million of them right now, so...
But we also use them when we clean the litter box.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
24 Aug
@1creekgirl Luckily, they are useful. I probably have a million of them stashed away. lol
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
27 Aug 21
Plastic is really a problem Just when we have adjusted to not using plastic bags any longer, the pandemia came and compelled people to place orders online. The goods were delivered in bubble wrap.
Anyway, we still try to do our best to put the none biodegradable materials separate from the biodegradable ones. The garbage collectors come for the recyclable materials on Saturdays. For bigger plastic like monobloc chairs, we resell it to used materials traders.
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
3 Sep 21
@41CombedaleRoad Yes, the local government is very particular about garbage disposal. We get to fine a thousand bucks (pesos) if we fail to follow the city ordinance.
However, there are urban dwellers still homeless and are in need of care. Our current leadership is pathetic that much of the development program budget goes to corrupt practices. Our poor are shabbily treated. Thus, these little people have no sense of obeying proper waste disposal. The pandemia though kept them inside compounds and local officials attend to them.
@41CombedaleRoad (5966)
• Greece
2 Sep 21
The Philippines sounds well organised. We only seem to have one collection here and it all goes together even though we have separated bags for the recycled plastics and papers.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5966)
• Greece
28 Aug 21
There are plenty of paper bags available in the stores here too, but they are very brittle and they tear so easily that I go with the biodegradable plastic bags.
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