Bread bags
Cereal bags
Frozen food bags
Plastic wrap
The inner plastic bags from purchased items (For example, if you buy a box of Hamburger Helper, the noodles inside are contained in a plastic bag)
Our local recycling center won't accept them.
Well, I found out that grocery stores that accept plastic bags for recycling take more than just store shopping bags.
They will accept the following:
Plastic retail bags with string ties and plastic handles removed (Like bags from "mall" stores)Newspaper bags
Dry-cleaning bags
Produce bags (washed out, no food residue)
Bread bags (washed out, no food residue)
Cereal bags (washed out, no food residue)
Frozen food bags (washed out, no food residue)
Plastic wrap from paper products (like packs of paper towels and toilet paper)
Plastic stretch/shrink wrap and cling film
Plastic zip-lock bags (the ones with the sliders have to have the closing mechanism removed)
They will NOT accept
Bags with strings or rigid plastic handles
Zip-lock bags with the slider mechanism still attached
Bags with food reside
Soil or mulch bags
Bubble wrap
Plastic food containers
Plastic bottles
Who accepts bags for recycling:
Kroger
Food City
Food Lion
Walmart
What do they do with the bags? Turn them into composite lumber, furniture, crates, pipes, pallets, and various other containers.
Consider us now a 100%, no-waste household.
I've got another idea for you - do you knit? I've starting knitting bags out of my plastic bags:
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I only WISH I could knit! :) I have tried several times and let's just say that it wasn't pretty.
ReplyDeleteI do well to handle one needle, let alone two.
I do crochet, though, and I found a website where this lady crochets all sorts of things out of plastic bags: she makes purses, rugs, you name it!
http://www.myrecycledbags.com/2008/07/19/the-ultimate-grocery-bag/
I haven't actually attempted any of her projects yet, but come next fall, it's on the to-do list.
That's great! I didn't know that. Our curbside recycling just started taking other plastic bags, we are very happy about it. Blessings.
ReplyDeleteOh, knitting them into things, especially reusable grocery bags is awesome. I knit, and I keep meaning to try that. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteMy local recycling center won't take the bags either-but I didn't even know Walmart would. I'm going to check and see if my local store has a drop off box next week!
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