where can i recycle plastic shopping bags?

Question

please

Answer 1

This is probably of no use to you but in some places with kerbside recycling, they collect the bags and recycle them. For example, in Christchurch, New Zealand, where I am from. The technology is relatively new, and you have to make sure you take the receipts out of the bags, one receipt can wreck the whole process, apparently.

If you're interested in environmental issues, have you considered pressuring your local council for kerbside recycling? Basically what we have here is a big green bin, and all recyclables are rinsed and put in there, and they collect it on rubbish day. It reduces landfill, and contributes to people creating less waste. It took a while to catch on, but now everyone does it as a matter of course... it represents a really big and positive change in people's thinking.

Most supermarket chains here also sell cotton bags (for about a dollar each) which you can use over and over and over again. You might feel a bit weird asking the shop assistant to fill your cotton bag (they're easily made I guess) the first couple of times, but there's really no need for plastic bags at all in that scenario, which is a big contribution to the environment.

I really applaud this question... plastic bags may not seem like a big deal, but every person making even small change helps the environment. Go you!

Answer 2

I reuse them at my living house for lots of issues, yet specifically I take them back to the keep and positioned them contained in the recycling bin. I have canvas grocery luggage, so do not get that many plastic ones. The shops right here deduct a nickle out of your invoice for each bag that you provide on the checkout. I stay in Oregon and there is really little that would't be recycled right here. I compost, have a operating laptop or computer virus bin, and recycle. I really bypass to the unload once a three hundred and sixty 5 days. I frequently have 4 garbage luggage, at maximum, of issues i could not recycle. some years, it is really one bag.

Answer 3

Dear Laurence,

Good for you for caring!

In CT the grocery stores have bins just for recycling the plastic bags, located either in the bottle return area or near the store entrance.

If your grocery store presently does not recycle the bags how about making the suggestion.

If the store isn't yet willing to do so, check to see if there are any people in your area who KNIT with the shopping bags. I know it sounds really bizarre but I saw a human interest story on my news (WFSB.com) about a year ago. There was a woman who was knitting all kinds of great looking bags, etc.

One of my friends marks all of her outgoing mail with
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

Answer 4

Good Question! I try not to throw out carrier bags as we all know that some are not Biodegradable. I re-use as much as i can,
but wouldn't it be better to make paper bags (the brown ones) Surely there easier to make & recycle....

Some shops like Tesco have got the `bag for life` so when its worn up, give it back to them & they replace it free.

Answer 5

Sainsbury's stores have a plastic bag recycle bins

Answer 6

grocery stores and Wal-Mart have drop off boxes for recycling plastic bags, usually as soon as you enter the door

Answer 7

You don't need to, just keep using them over and over again.

Plastics recycling plants will take them but i think it's by the ton.

Answer 8

Try like the Salvation Army thrift store, they use bags people bring in.

Answer 9

usually the grocery store will have big bins for recycling them

Answer 10

some grocery stores have a place where you can bring your old shopping bags. my daughter works at kroger and they have a place at the store.