Paper or Plastic
By thundercat
@thundercat (505)
United States
January 8, 2007 11:21am CST
Which one do you use most often when you check out to put your groceries in? At all the supermarkets near me they always put it in plastic bags unless you ask for paper. But my family collects the bags instead of throwing them out and takes them back the store to drop them off in the bag recycling bins.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I always ask for paper bags if they give me a choice. There is no drop off point for used plastic bags out where I live at, or I would gladly do that. (Our local grocery used to have a bin, but they quit doing it.) We do have a paper recycler at our town hall, so I use the paper sacks to bundle up my newspapers when I take them there. I think every store should offer recycling bins for the recycling of the plastic bags. The only problem there is that there's too many people who are lazy and don't bother taking them back to the bin, they just find it easier to throw it into the garbage, which fills up our landfills with a product that takes many, many years to disintegrate.
@thundercat (505)
• United States
8 Jan 07
We also use them as garbage bags in the small garbage bins around my house. That is a great way to reuse them. We basically accumulate them until we have a lot then just take them to the supermarket the next time we go.
