• SirActionSack@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    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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      2 days ago

      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.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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            23 hours ago

            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.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              22 hours ago

              Maybe you compost, so you’re not throwing away food garbage? Otherwise, it would start smelling almost immediately.