{"id":4676,"date":"2009-07-13T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2009-07-13T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T15:48:17","slug":"recycling-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/recycling-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Plastic Bags… Because Sometimes You Forget the Reusable Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Got a collection of reusable shopping bags<\/a>?<\/strong> Same here… but I’ll freely admit that sometimes I forget them, or decide to stop to pick things up when I don’t have them with me. You’re probably in the same boat: despite your best efforts to reduce your use of plastic shopping bags, you’ve still got a stash of them somewhere…<\/p>\n So what do you do with them? You definitely want to keep them out of the waste stream, so obvious uses, like lining trash cans or otherwise using them for waste disposal, aren’t the best choices. You’ve got other options, though… and, as you’ll see, your choices for responsible disposal are expanding.<\/p>\n If you’re not going to pick up the dog poop with them, or line the bathroom trash can, how can you put those plastic bags to (re)use? Turns out there are quite a few upcycling<\/a> options…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unfortunately, recycling these old bags isn’t often as convenient as other materials — you generally can’t put them in the curbside bin, for instance. There are still recycling options, though… and we need to do this, as the recycling statistics<\/a> are pretty discouraging: about 12% of plastic bags get recycled<\/a>.<\/p>\n How do you deal with plastic shopping bags? Or, maybe more importantly, how do you ensure you don’t end with any to begin with?<\/p>\n Image credit:<\/strong> evelynishere at Flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got a collection of reusable shopping bags? Same here… but I’ll freely admit that sometimes I forget them, or decide to stop to pick things up when I don’t have [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[818,1669,3598,1803,478,1382],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Reuse Plastic Bags<\/h3>\n
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How to Recycle Plastic Bags<\/h3>\n
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