Where to recycle grocery bags?

[freddurgan]

I think this is the last time I'm going to bring home a plastic grocery bag. It's just too dumb and I feel like a jackass every time I come home with a handful of plastic.

Luckily I've saved them all over the past 1.5 years so I can recycle them.

Where is a good place to recycle grocery bags? I've never really seen a place anywhere.

I have a Whole Foods near me, do they do anything like that? Somehow I feel like they do.

Or whatever better idea you have would be good.

Thanks!

[Slave of the Beast]

Why didn't you just keep on using the first half dozen bags in the first place?

Anyways... where do you live, 'cause major UK stores like Sainburys and Tesco offer a plastic bag recycling service. Can't see Walmart doing the same, but I could be wrong.

[Trousersnake]

There's a few options.

Where I am the supermarkets giving them out usually have somewhere to take them for recycling.

The recycling sorting facility here CAN recycle plastic bags but you have to give them to them stating there's nothing nasty hidden in amongst them or else they'll chuck them out in the general waste.

Also I'd just check them out. Most of the bags I see today are biodegradable. I line bins with them.

[boozehound420]

reuse them for general purposes as long as possible then burn them.

[reggie_love]

Keep them circulating for household purposes if you can.

Where I live the major grocery chains (life safeway) have a bin where you dump all your plastic bags to be recycled.

[extermin8tor]

in oz coles lets you recycle them in a big bin in the front of the store, they are ery happy to take the bags as it reduce the resource footprint on earth

[gunjah]

ya, any major store should take them. And i know for a fact that walmart does as well (or atleast all the ones ive been to)