Random question of the day: Do you recycle plastic bags?

Do you recycle plastic bags?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 47 67.1%

  • No, I don't bother

    Votes: 10 14.3%

  • No, there's nowhere to recycle

    Votes: 13 18.6%
  • Total voters
    70
I didn't vote because I'm an "other." We mostly use canvas bags for all kinds of shopping, but there are still times we forget them or buy more than will fit in the bags we brought and end up with plastic. We reuse them for DH's lunches and small garbage bags. The only ones I throw out are the small produce bags and used ziplocks. I know I should probably recycle them at the grocery store, but there are only a handful each week and I have too many things hanging around the house to be dealt with later as it is.

Our curbside recycling program seems limited to me. We recycle everything we can through it, but lots of things that are technically recyclable aren't accepted so we end up tossing them.
 
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We reuse them...have our own little plastic bag dispenser at home. Plastic bags are the only thing that our town doesn't take in the recycling bin but we do have a full bin of other recycling stuff every week!!!
 
Plastic gets picked up here once a month...we actually can get fined and they can refuse to empty the cans if we don't sort our trash properly.
 
we use ours for diapers and small trash bags. But we also use reusable ones at the grocery store so we don't have too many.
 
I think it's interesting how things seemed to have changed a bit since the thread was first started a couple of years ago. It seems like more people are able to recycle their plastic bags, but more of us also seem to be using the reusable bags. I rarely ever use anything except for my reusable bags- and I'm getting my family trained to also use reusables or just hand-carry small purchases. I like to have a few plastic bags, though, in case I have to make a return.
 
Dude. This thread is SO. OLD. It's crackin' me up reading through the folks who were active here in 2009.

I reuse my plastic bags. They've started a plastic free weekend here in our city, so you have to pay 20 cents for a plastic bag. It's funny how so little money can provide SO MUCH guilt at using a plastic bag!
 
We have nowhere to recycle either. But I do reuse them...they work great in small bathroom trash cans and they make great padding for DH's care packages..plus he says they use them over there too when I send him stuff.

Wait...why is thread back?? I just realized that lol
 
We reuse them for small trash can liners, scooping the cat litter, and for picking up Bear's mess when we take him for a walk (the park's bag dispenser is usually empty).
 
I use canvas/fabric bags for all shopping - even at the mall for clothes. I have several foldable ones that fit in my purse and I have some cute quilted ones that I've made, so we just always take those to the stores with us.

On the rare occasion that I do have some kicking around I use them to line trash cans and keep on hand for when a kid is here and has wet/dirty clothes to take back home, etc. (My niece and nephew spend a lot of time here).
 
If you donate food to food pantries, they can always use your extra grocery bags, too - we're always running low at ours for clients, and having people donate helps keep our expenses down!
 
we use them for the small trash cans we have around the apartment. i also use them in my car, and when i bring supplies back and forth to classes. my roommate uses them when she brings food to work (she refuses to use the lunch box that i have).

we have reusable bags for the grocery store. but 85% of the time? i forget about them. and when i do my shopping, they sit at home and i end up with 10 more plastic grocery bags.
 
I said no, but I guess I do, because I use them in my small trash can under the kitchen sink lol. So I guess I don't technically, but they are all used over again!
 
I don't recycle mine, but I re-use them. I re-use many of them for Zach's diapers- they're the perfect size to work as a trash bag for his trash can. I also use them as trash bags for my office and the bathrooms.

We've also used them again for art projects, etc.

The ones we don't use, we try to take back to the stores that collect them, but most of ours get used.
 
I just saw this thread and tried to vote on the poll and was like wait how come I cant vote? LOL Then I looked at the dates and saw how old it was. Stupid spammers. Well I think my answer is still the same. I use the bags for all sorts of thing. When I go to Jo-Anne's fabric I buy their reusable bags for my stuff because they are so cute. I use them to keep my projects all together too (like right now I am making a queen sized blanket). All my yarn is all in one bag along with the needles and the blanket.
 
Sometimes I wish I could just throw them away - we have 5 garbage cans and will get a huge fine if we do not recycle (throw away plastic in misc garbage or paper in plastic)
 
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