Anecdotally, it has curbed my own use. At first I was a little irritated but quickly realized that the collection of bags at home was an overwhelming waste when 80% of the time I was only carrying 2-3 items, which I can easily hand carry.
Yeah, it’s really surprising how easy it is to do a large percentage of your shopping without bags. For larger shopping trips you will need something of course, but for the way most urban residents live, you dive into a store for five things at a time and usually end up with some kind of bag or box along the way, so just “winging it” works more often than not.
Ten years ago I bought a pack of four canvas shopping bags off of Amazon, and I’ve used them ever since. They’re fantastic. I have one with a small tear that I will sew back up by hand, but by and large they’re awesome quality.
Anecdotally, it has made things worse. The shopping bags were already being reused as garbage bags, now I have to buy rolls of single use plastic bags instead. Worse, those tote bags are everywhere now, and so much less ecological.
I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash
Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each
For small trash like the bathroom we don’t use bags, just the bin itself. I have reusable menstrual items so it’s not like the trash gets all that gross, maybe the worst is used q-tips, but for that the trash gets a wipe down every now and then. Eventually for the litter box, I’ll just be switching to using the plastic bag the litter itself came in for taking out the old litter, if that makes sense.
Just some ideas but every person is different on their needs and routines.
You don’t still collect them from random places? A bunch of places near me still use plastic bags, either the heavier ones or the plain old thin ones even if they’re not supposed to. But they’re few and far between so it’s not a problem. I save those ones and use them for the bathroom trash can.
You don’t have to buy garbage bags, you can just put stuff in the bin unbagged.
The heavier plastic bags do contain more plastic which I guess is arguably worse but they get reused and don’t get picked up by a slight breeze and wafted into the nearest waterway.
Depends on your collection service. If they don’t specify bagged waste you can just hose the bin out as needed. A tiny bit of extra work to avoid needless plastic in the environment.
You say this is gross, but, the few rich houses I been in, these rich houses often don’t have bags in their bins. They are emptied frequently enough. It boggled me when I noticed it in more than one house.
We have no plastic bags where I am, I went through the loss of the bathroom trash can bag. I tried paper bags, obviously no go, they are too big. That’s when I remembered, snd just went bagless. I clean my bathroom well enough, it’s fine really. I empty it 1-2 a week. If it looks gross rinse it out. That’s what their maids do.
Did I miss something? There are folks who use the flimsy plastic shopping bags for the kitchen can!?
Even with a plastic shopping bag ban, you still may purchase trash bags. …
While some folks can go the extra mile and manage their kitchen trash in other, non plastic ways, you certainly don’t have to.
I really, really enjoy, not seeing plastic shopping bags floating around on our streets. It’s been years of the ban, and you don’t see it on the streets like you use to. I’m really happy with the plastic bag ban in my state.
Two big changes for my home with the ban, learning to remember your bags for the grocer, and finding alternatives for the bathroom trash. Even got a square trash bin for my husband’s office that fits paper bags, but the kitchen trash is a different story.
It’s okay to take smaller steps towards a less plastic intensive home.
That’s what I always think as I walk in, but as I start juggling more and more, I usually have to pull out the ripstop tote that’s always folded into my small purse. And sometimes add a paper bag if it gets to be too much
I’m glad to be rid of the jellyfish bags, even though I now need separate “compostable” pet bags that aren’t really compostable.
Anecdotally, it has curbed my own use. At first I was a little irritated but quickly realized that the collection of bags at home was an overwhelming waste when 80% of the time I was only carrying 2-3 items, which I can easily hand carry.
Yeah, it’s really surprising how easy it is to do a large percentage of your shopping without bags. For larger shopping trips you will need something of course, but for the way most urban residents live, you dive into a store for five things at a time and usually end up with some kind of bag or box along the way, so just “winging it” works more often than not.
It was a pet peeve of mine to watch people put a small item in a bag, wrap the whole thing and hand carry it.
Nice!
Ten years ago I bought a pack of four canvas shopping bags off of Amazon, and I’ve used them ever since. They’re fantastic. I have one with a small tear that I will sew back up by hand, but by and large they’re awesome quality.
I’ve saw a lot of embroidery patching in Pinterest I definitely plan to use in my tote bags. It just adds more love to them:)
Anecdotally, it has made things worse. The shopping bags were already being reused as garbage bags, now I have to buy rolls of single use plastic bags instead. Worse, those tote bags are everywhere now, and so much less ecological.
I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash
Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each
For small trash like the bathroom we don’t use bags, just the bin itself. I have reusable menstrual items so it’s not like the trash gets all that gross, maybe the worst is used q-tips, but for that the trash gets a wipe down every now and then. Eventually for the litter box, I’ll just be switching to using the plastic bag the litter itself came in for taking out the old litter, if that makes sense. Just some ideas but every person is different on their needs and routines.
You don’t still collect them from random places? A bunch of places near me still use plastic bags, either the heavier ones or the plain old thin ones even if they’re not supposed to. But they’re few and far between so it’s not a problem. I save those ones and use them for the bathroom trash can.
You don’t have to buy garbage bags, you can just put stuff in the bin unbagged.
The heavier plastic bags do contain more plastic which I guess is arguably worse but they get reused and don’t get picked up by a slight breeze and wafted into the nearest waterway.
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That’s gross. You wouldn’t do that with your kitchen trash can, I don’t know why you’d suggest it in the bathroom.
Depends on your collection service. If they don’t specify bagged waste you can just hose the bin out as needed. A tiny bit of extra work to avoid needless plastic in the environment.
My kitchen waste goes into paper bags when that is what I get from grocery store.
You say this is gross, but, the few rich houses I been in, these rich houses often don’t have bags in their bins. They are emptied frequently enough. It boggled me when I noticed it in more than one house.
We have no plastic bags where I am, I went through the loss of the bathroom trash can bag. I tried paper bags, obviously no go, they are too big. That’s when I remembered, snd just went bagless. I clean my bathroom well enough, it’s fine really. I empty it 1-2 a week. If it looks gross rinse it out. That’s what their maids do.
Bathroom trash is much different than kitchen
Did I miss something? There are folks who use the flimsy plastic shopping bags for the kitchen can!?
Even with a plastic shopping bag ban, you still may purchase trash bags. …
While some folks can go the extra mile and manage their kitchen trash in other, non plastic ways, you certainly don’t have to.
I really, really enjoy, not seeing plastic shopping bags floating around on our streets. It’s been years of the ban, and you don’t see it on the streets like you use to. I’m really happy with the plastic bag ban in my state.
Two big changes for my home with the ban, learning to remember your bags for the grocer, and finding alternatives for the bathroom trash. Even got a square trash bin for my husband’s office that fits paper bags, but the kitchen trash is a different story.
It’s okay to take smaller steps towards a less plastic intensive home.
Maybe you compost, so you’re not throwing away food garbage? Otherwise, it would start smelling almost immediately.
That’s what I always think as I walk in, but as I start juggling more and more, I usually have to pull out the ripstop tote that’s always folded into my small purse. And sometimes add a paper bag if it gets to be too much
I’m glad to be rid of the jellyfish bags, even though I now need separate “compostable” pet bags that aren’t really compostable.