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Recycling Plastic Bags

by Domestic-warrior

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We all have hundreds of plastic bags choking up our cupboards and pantries. I have noticed that the major supermarkets have a recycling bin to put in your plastic shopping bags for recycling.

This is in Australia anyway, i'm not sure about other countries (maybe others could let us know if they do it in their area) but this is a great idea instead of throwing them into landfill when having a clear out.

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	August 27th \| kseers

Re: Recycling Plastic Bags

Good idea! We re-use ours as garbage bags and I take any left over to local shops for them to re-use. But it would be even better to eliminate them I know....

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	July 23rd \| winja

Re: Recycling Plastic Bags

i use mine as garbage bags and when i have to many i take them to the childcare centre for them to use for dirty nappies and to the local neighbourhood centre for ppl to take bread home in....

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	July 24th \| Domestic-warrior

Re: Recycling Plastic Bags

I also reuse them in this way, it's good to try and get two, three or more uses out of them.

Although after this 3.76 billion (according to Clean up Australia) of them still end up in land fill and estimates on how long a bag takes to break down is anywhere from 20 -400 years. Shocking!

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	July 23rd \| llmunchkin

Re: Recycling Plastic Bags

That's great, I must keep an eye out for it, and if I don't see it, I will ask management. What do they do with the bags though?

Here is a link you might find interesting, it house information about Australia's Plastic Bag Reductioni Strategy.

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	July 23rd \| Domestic-warrior

Re: Recycling Plastic Bags

I'm assuming they are recycled in some way but even small contaminants, such as dockets etc, can render them useless. I figure it is worth a shot though. This is an interesting article about our humble plastic bag.

I noticed recently that LA has banned them now. Drastic measures need drastic actions and i really think people would soon get use to taking their reusable bags shopping. Plastic bags are so convenient, even though most people are concerned about their effects, complacency takes over.

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