Ways of recycling or reusing adisposable item of daily use.

Plastic grocery bags

Plastic grocery bags, also known as carrier or plastic shopping bags, are made of various plastic materials and are used as shopping bags. Plastic grocery bags were introduced in U.S stores in 1977. The Environmental protection agency in 2018 estimated that 4.2 million tons of carrier bags were reproduced yearly in the U.S, and only 10 % of the bags were being recycled. Manufacturers kept increasing the number of bags produced because only a small percentage of the bags were being recycled. People kept buying more bags, using them once, and getting rid of them. This made our oceans to be littered with plastic and landfills to be overstuffed with plastic bags (Kral, 2021). Below are some of the ways someone can use to reuse or recycle carrier bags.

Plastic bags can not be recycled in our local standard curd side recycling bins. However, they can be recycled in plastic film recycling drop-offs; they are found in retail centres and grocery stores (Kral, 2021). The best way of managing plastic bags is reusing plastic bags.

There are several ways of reusing plastic grocery bags; they include; used to line trash bins instead of using trash bin bags, packing shoes in luggage to avoid dirtying the rest of your clothes, collecting and picking pet’s messes, carrier bags are stuffed in shoes and purses to help them maintain their shapes, storage for paintbrushes and rollers, line up paint tray to avoid paint contamination, used to collect and store for dirty diapers, can be used to store other bags or clothes, storage for defrosting items, storage area when soaking a showerhead in vinegar, cover dirty shoes from the garden to avoid making floors dirty, cover leaves or the entire plant to avoid frost damage, and store cooking scraps to avoid odours (Combiths, 2021).

References

Combiths, S. (2021, July 23). 25 brilliant ways to reuse plastic grocery bags. Kitchn. https://www.thekitchn.com/ways-to-reuse-plastic-grocery-bags-23186101

Kral, H. (2021, May 5). Ways to recycle and reuse plastic grocery bags. Family Handyman. https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/recycle-and-reuse-plastic-grocery-bags/