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Five Ways to Reuse Newspaper Delivery Plastic Bags

paper112408.jpgPerfect Sunday mornings mean coffee and the paper. What’s not so relaxing? Knowing we can't return that little blue plastic bag to our local grocery store. Here’s five everyday ways to recycle them...

 
 
  1. Hold your wet bathing suit when coming home from the beach
  2. Scoop up doggie poop
  3. Contain trash inside the car
  4. Slip a pair of shoes inside one when packing a suitcase so that clothes don't get soiled
  5. Bring with you to the wine store to carry home you favorite bottle of vino

Any other ideas?

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I used to toss them in my diaper bag for soiled cloth dipes and clothes.

posted by InexplicableWays on November 24th 2008 at 11:32am
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I...
1. use them to line my skinny bathroom trash can
2. take them with me to the store and put glass containers in them before putting in my nylon tote. (yes, i had something break before ... lesson learned!)
3. take to the office to tote my recyclable lunch refuse home in

posted by rebecca_f on November 24th 2008 at 12:23pm
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We've stopped buying diaper genie refills and just use the newspaper bags to put our 1 year old's poop diapers in on the way to the trash can outside the house. Makes me feel better to reuse them and cuts off the smell pretty effectively.

posted by IronBetty on November 24th 2008 at 7:41pm
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my father actually cuts them in half and tapes the one's end shut before using them to scoop poop. (we have small dogs...!)

posted by Enamorada on November 25th 2008 at 9:01am
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Go digital and skip the bags!

posted by whytephoenix on November 25th 2008 at 4:04pm
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I live in Toronto and these bags are no longer used by the newspapers around here. Great for the environment, bad for me: I now have to buy poop bags for the dog. ;P

posted by Carder on November 27th 2008 at 4:50pm
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This goes for those Subway sandwich bags as well!

posted by Knerq on December 5th 2008 at 10:18am
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wait. the times told me those bags are recyclable... i've been recycling them.... am i wrong?
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posted by blattanzi on April 14th 2009 at 8:51am
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