There is a big deal being made about using plastic grocery bags to line your garbage cans.?

Question

They don't break down in the landfill and are environmentally unfriendly. What should we be using instead? If I went out and bought Glad kitchen catchers it would be the same thing.

Answer 1

I don't think theirs a better way, and would advise just recycle more and try to use less.

ben.

Answer 2

I use cloth bags. In the town I used to live in it was mandatory to recycle, so you know it was a very eco-friendly town. The garbage men would take the cloth bags and dump them into the truck and put the bags back in your garbage can. Now, since I moved, we have to take it to a dumpster ourselves, because the garbage men here would just throw the cloth bags away.

After they've been used, we put them in a large bucket of hot water and bleach, and then bleach them with the rest of our whites.

It's somewhat of a hassle, but worth it.

The plastic ones are expensive AND bad for the environment.

Answer 3

I would just ignore all of the noise and do what works best for you.  Personally, I reuse the plastic grocery bags to hold yukky stuff and throw them in my plastic garbage cans.

Answer 4

At least if you're throwing your garbage away in the store bags, then you are not filling the landfills with garbage bags and store bags.  If you can, try and compost as much as you can.  Ultimately you will use less bags.  

I use the store bags to save money, but it also saves on green house gases if I'm not using garbage bags, that would be contributing to making more garbage bags.

I do have my grocery bags that I reuse most of  the time.

Answer 5

Trash bags made of cornstarch instead of oil.  While they do cost more I am really careful of what I throw away.  I recycle and compost so my actual landfill trash is less than two gallons for two people and a dog in a weeks time.

Answer 6

Plastic made from oil which you may have noticed is getting very expensive and running low in the easy to get to places.  It also doesn't break down as you mentioned.

You could use paper but that's just cutting down trees which is almost as bad since trees turn CO2 into O2.

Its really no win.

Answer 7

You're screwed no matter what.  Once they vanquish your plastic garbage bags, they'll go for something else.  

We are all going to spend our entire lives bending over backwards for idiot environmentalists (as opposed to people who actually identify real problems and try to solve them) as long as we jump every time they throw out a panic statement.

They are doing their best to frustrate us into living the way THEY say we need to live.  It is about power and control and imposition of global socialism.  Make no mistake.

EDIT Personally I use grocery bags for the small garbage cans in the bathrooms and such.  I don't understand how this is not "environmentally friendly" since I am reusing something instead of buying a new one.  

Note that the reason we use plastic garbage bags in the first place is because environmentalists screamed about all the paper ones we were using.  Now they are telling us to use paper again.  WTF?