| In many countries plastic bags are given for free with | | | | pack is over, you have to keep buying commercial |
| the groceries. Many times people take home with | | | | garbage bags. Well now you can reuse your regular |
| them 5-6 bags every time they shop. These bags | | | | bags instead of buying new ones, since they fit in |
| are sometimes thrown away directly in the trash can, | | | | the can. |
| other times are simply tucked away in an unused | | | | Saving space and organizing is another way to reuse |
| drawer in the kitchen. Yet there are people who are | | | | them. We all keep many things (junk things) on our |
| reusing them at times in creative ways. Plastic bags | | | | shelves, in our drawers, so now we can put all these |
| should not be simply tossed in the trash or forgotten | | | | in plastic sacks. We can also add craft supplies, kids |
| about. They are reusable at least until they break or | | | | old toys, sewing supplies, pretty much anything that |
| cut and by being put to use a second and third time | | | | is not needed every minute of the day. |
| people help heal the already badly damaged | | | | In summer they can be used to carry home the wet |
| environment. | | | | swimming suits and towels from the beach and |
| Individuals have been reusing bags for many years. | | | | swimming pools. This can very well replace wet bags. |
| Sometimes they give as reason saving money, other | | | | They can also be used as mini-trash bags. Sometimes |
| times saving the environment, but this is a not a new | | | | various bits and pieces of garbage needs to be |
| thing. It is just that people only recently started to | | | | thrown away but they don't quite make a full |
| become aware of the eco-friendly environment and | | | | garbage can size. This is when they can be simply |
| doing something for our planet. So how can we all | | | | added to a plastic bag that can be now safely |
| reuse these plastic bags that until now were just | | | | thrown away. |
| ending up in the garbage bins and polluting the earth? | | | | Some stores actually have containers that enable you |
| One way to use them is to put them in small trash | | | | to bring back your totes and they will put them in |
| cans. Small trashcans in bathrooms, in bedrooms, | | | | their recycle bin just for plastic material. This can be |
| laundry rooms are suitable for having a plastic bag in | | | | also a feasible way to reuse them since otherwise |
| them. As a matter of fact some of these bins come | | | | they would just end up in the landfill. |
| with totes specially done for them and once the | | | | |