When throwing out my garbage, how do I throw it out without using the dreaded plastic bag?

Question

The biodegradable bags are unfortunately way out of my price range? And to let you know, I live in an apartment building with a garbage chute. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Check out Home Depot and ask them if you can have some of their bio-degradable plastic bags (some health food stores have them, too).  

I rescue and foster cats and only plastic holds the waste litter (I, like you, find the cost of the biodegradable bags out of my price range).  I discovered that The Big Carrot health food store in Toronto has 100% biodegradable bags and when I explained my situation and asked for a few extra bags, they gave me a box of 500 and thanked me for asking them!  Since I go through a bag a day, that's more than a year's worth, so I've given some to other cat foster parents as well.

When I visited Home Depot and discovered they have biodegradable bags (the ones they hand out to customers), I also asked them, and the clerk took a rack's worth of bags from her supply box and put them in my the bag with my purchase.

You'll be surprised at the number of wonderful people who are just waiting for you to ask them to help you.  Go for it!

Answer 2

Next time you go to the grocery store, ask for paper instead of plastic and use them.

Answer 3

easy task...........

take a newspaper ......

put your garbage on it..........

fold it and throw.........

paper is biodegradable and doesn't harm the environment !

Answer 4

you can easily do this just by using a paper bag....or you can keep/take your dust bin and throw the garbage and get it back to your place .......

Answer 5

Why not use the "dreaded plastic bag" ?  Whoa is me as to why we as conservationist think that it is better to use paper as it costs more to produce, uses more energy and depending on the decaying location may take considerable time to decay.  

I use and reuse (always better to reuse than recycle) the plastic bags for all sorts of things and then they can end up as a recycled product but it takes everyone doing this to have enough in the recycle bin to make a difference.  Just as aluminum cans are recycled, there are many that are not.

Personally I see the day when many containers will have a deposit or an empty must be turned in to get another or they charge for not having an empty.  

Also you will see the day you will not be able to mix trash and all must be separate in their own container.  The containers may not be at the curb but at a central location in the neighborhood with attendants.

Let me ask you why would you purchase bags when you can reuse the plastic ones at the store and a little wet doesn't hurt them?