Using plastic bags as trash can liners: what do you honestly think about this?

Totally fine, as long as no one else can see it. So, keep it in the cabinets, closet or garage.

You sound poor.

I too recently noticed that they do look kind of trashy in certain areas of the home that must have small trash bins, despite being efficient and green. So I swapped them out for clear bags and it looks better.

We demand you turn in your card immediately.

If you have a lid on the can, it's fine. If not, maybe consider some of those biodegradable bags, which look nicer and are better for the environment. You can just recycle the plastic store bags.

OP I read an article recently in a scientific paper that questioned how green recycling certain plastics really is. Surprisingly, in many cases better to re-use and dare I utter it, actually bin it and let it it go to a landfill. Considering the process from start to finish, more energy is consumed, and more pollution created with efforts to recycle many plastics. I see no problem with using up the ones you have stashed, but would probably limit how many I took or used first and foremost. The reduce portion of reduce, re-use, and recycle is paramount IMHO. Who really cares what it looks like to others really. I used to use these (no longer available in my city) in a small compost pail beneath my sink, and they worked out well for one living alone. Still try to bring your own totes to the market when it's a planned shopping excursion. For every single rubbish bag you aren't purchasing, a smaller one is utilised, (a second time) and a virgin one is not being consumed. Many of the small shoppers are now biodegradable too.

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This is so tacky and gross.

I've been doing it for years. I don't invite any cunty "friends" over like you bitches.

I do this, too.

R9 I never visit the Poors anyway.

I do this for the bathroom and bedroom trash cans, have for years.

Do you need your trash liners in Tiffany blue, Prissy? No, it’s fine obviously.

Do you need your trash liners in Tiffany blue, Prissy? No, it’s fine obviously.

Not only do I do it - I use the bags from the DOLLAR TREE!!!

I get my groceries delivered (Peapod) and the delivery guy will take the plastic bags for recycling. I imagine some people don’t know this.

I buy plastic bags for my garbage pails because reusing grocery bags does look tacky. I used to use them, though.

I don’t use the blue recycle bins because I have no place to put them in my small 1000 sq. ft. home. I don’t want to take a bin that has been pissed on by whatever, and bring it back into my living space. I have thought about this, but have not found a hygienic solution.

Tacky as hell but my mom does that so I'm kinda used to it.

Where do you all live that plastic bags are still legal?

Nothing whatsoever wrong with it IP. You'd be very surprised the number of very rich people who do the same thing.

Years ago, Lily Tomlin recounted going to the store and buying a waste can. She brought it back in a plastic bag. When she got home she put the plastic bag in the waste can.

R18 seriously!

I've done this for years with the kitchen trash under the sink, but not in the bathroom, bedrooms or laundry. I empty those bins into these bags, however, when I do the whip round. Why buy plastic trash bags when these are just as good, and for now only cost 5¢ each? Their days are numbered though, my state will ban them in in 2020.

I buy garbage bags for the kitchen trashcan. In the bathrooms I line the bottom of the garbage with a paper towel and empty them into the kitchen trashcan. For the laundry room, I use the box the kitchen garbage bags come in and when it's filled up with lint, I toss the whole thing. Haven't had plastic grocery bags in years.

Walmart has some grey bags at most checkouts that are twice as big as the regular plastic bags. I always ask the checker to use them when I buy paper towels and a few other larger items. They're also heavier duty plastic than the flimsy smaller bags. They make perfect liners for the under the counter trash bins in the kitchen.

Using the store-issued plastic bags as trash liners -- I don't see what's wrong with that. How is any other liner going to look better? It would be worse to throw those bags away without reusing them. At some point in the near future, stores won't be able to give out those plastic bags.

I'm willing to be tacky to reduce the impact on the environment in whatever small manner possible - though the real issue is that you're not taking your own reusable bags and getting plastic bags in the first place.

I reuse those bags for my can/bottle recycling, but regular trash bags for household garbage. I do a lot of recycle-y things that would be considered laughable. Nothing crazy, just mindful.

One time this anti-vax crunchy woman (she doesn’t wear a bra because they restrict your lymph system, okay?) made fun of me for reusing a Starbucks cup (I use them as go-cups for iced coffee I make at home). It’s “hilarious” to give a plastic cup one more use before recycling?

Maybe that’s tacky, I don’t know. It makes more sense than being afraid of vaccines, anyway.

Only three states (CA, Hawaii, NY) have statewide bans on plastic bags. My state has no legislation pending on single-use plastic.

The ban in NY doesn't start until March 2020 R28 you stupid butt hole. I still get them when I go to the store. I hate you R28. I hate your stinking guts and I hope somebody suffocates you with a plastic bag. Fuck YOU!

*blows kiss to R29* SEETHE.

Just use your old Hermes bags, OP

Rich people have Marias to change their trash and Maria uses the plastic bags she hauls back from grocery shopping. Every rich person knows that you watch your pennies so the dollars take care of themselves.

For my trashcans, I use regular trash bags. However I still save the store bags for small things that I want to throw out quickly, such as packaging from fresh meats, bones, spoiled fruits/vegetables, etc... basically anything I don't want lingering in my trash can until the bag gets full.

Miss OP looks forward to her next round of free trash bags.

For those of you who collect a lot of plastic bags, please consider saving them and dropping them off at an animal shelter. You wouldn't believe how many we go through in a day.

Thank you for recycling! Just remember, however, not to let Cheryl use them. The stank eats plastic.

It isn't really "recycling," though, if you use it for trash then throw it into the trash collection.

OP, you do you. Only parvenus would worry about something so trivial.

R16 Have you considered periodically dumping recycling into this blue bin and simply leaving it behind, or on the side of your house? Garage possibly? Many cities and villages can provide you with a new one (though there may be a charge). Otherwise I would disinfect one really well, rather than forego recycling altogether. Not lecturing, merely making suggestions.

Grocery stores and Walmarts have bins for recycling plastic bags.

I use them for my bathroom trash cans, because they're small and it's a perfect fit. I also use them when I scoop litter.

I have frames that hang on cabinet doors and hold shopping bags, so my trash hangs neatly out of sight in the cabinet.

My maid used to do this until I got fed up with how tacky it looked and slapped her.

I think if you are worried about this you’re life must really suck.

R32 & R43 have loathsome attitudes toward household help. 32 assumes all people who are rich have help, and they're apparently all hispanic or named Maria, which is racist, and 43 has either an anger management problem, or an evil sense of humour.

Why would there be anything wrong with it? It's for garbage. That said, I stopped doing it a long time ago because those bags tear easily, and they'd, more often than not, sink to the bottom of the can, making the whole thing pointless.

I have two of these on two of my kitchen cabinet doors, I modified them with holes so I could attach them to the inside of the doors instead of overhanging. I have always hated having a visible trash can out, even the more stylish ones.

Using the smaller trash bags means I have to empty the trash more often but then I have never liked having trash around in the kitchen for days. These are from Target but I purchased mine through Amazon, just google "over the cabinet door trash bag holder" for more options and links.

OP here. I just wanted to interject that it was indeed the cleaning lady that started this. I'd never thought about that before but when some of the other people mentioned maids I realized that the cleaning lady is the one who started this. She's Polish so she speaks very little English, or at least pretends to. I'm so confused because I don't want her to feel like I'm putting her down for this practice. I just can't get a new cleaning lady. This one has been with me for 15 years and I can trust her with ANYTHING. Those of you with help will realize just how valuable this is. I think I'll call her sister, who speaks better English and also cleans several apartments in my building, and explain to her that I need to stop using these plastic shopping bags for liners. I just hope and pray that my girl will understand. Has anyone else ever had to take this on? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.

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R48 Use a translation page just google it. Many say Polish and Ukranian cleaners are the best. They definitely prefer doing things the old fashioned way, scrubbing floors by hand, washing walls and rinsing several times. Lots of elbow grease. I hope you tip her well; you're very lucky to have the same person that long without them living in.

I don't use a liner so that the trash can "season" the trashcan.

OP, in most progressive countries single-use plastic bags are already outlawed.

R50 thank you. That is a great idea. Yes a polish cleaning lady is the best. Impeccable cleaning.

[quote]I think if you are worried about this you’re life must really suck.

Oh, dear!

[quote] I'd be happy to do this but I don't have a cat... Please help me Datalounge, I just don't know what to do!

Well, you could adopt one.