No using grocery bags, now where do I put my kitchen waste.

that hasnt started here so I use them for Garbage but also buy the trash bags for different size cans.

Hi Suspenseful, I thought about getting a couple of those bags, our Kroger store is making them available now. I thought ahead and considered the end of my grocery bags to fill the bathroom and bedroom trash cans. They fit perfectly! Maybe you could shop once without the nylon bags and gather a few plastic bags once a while to keep them plentiful. I guess if you go to the grocery store more than once a month, you could probably get enough to last you that long. Buying them will just cost you, and why do that when these are free? Bay Lay Gray xx

Oops. That is a great question. In my area, you can buy a cloth bag for .99, or an insulated bag for 1.99.All the supermarkets still have the plastic bags.Your supermarket doesn't have Any plastic bags?

You are not alone in this dilemma. The houses today are all built with a central chute for rubbish. I cannot imagine not using a plastic bag to store my trash before disposing of it in the central chute. Now there is this green movement to reduce the use of plastic bags. And the store owners are all for it. My only source of plastic bags are going to diminish with time. Back when they design the houses with the rubbish chute at a corner of the kitchen, we can still make do with paper bags to dispose of our rubbish as we are most likely to throw them out immediately. Now with the central chute, I cannot imagine if someone did not use a plastic bag for his trash. If his trash is wet, he'd be dripping all the way to the chute, all along the corridor. Who the heck is going to be cleaning up his mess? Sigh... the architect of today really cannot compare to the architects of the old school. Back then, the really design the flats to be ergonomic and functional. Now a days, the architects are more interested in looks and fanciful designs rather and function and form.

Well just the other day I got an email with Green tips and it turns out that there are companies that make Green garbage bags that decompost or are made from recycled products. The other thing is that when you need some bags, don't use the cloth bags for your next shopping trip, and that way you can get some bags for your kitchen. It's not like you're just throwing them out, you're recycling them. I use them for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom bins as well as for cleaning out the cat box.

That's a tough one. I use the plastic grocery bags for most of my garbage too.

I have teh same problem. I used to have tons of plastic bags now I only have a few. I mostly use cloth bags, but once in a while I forget them and end up with a couple plastic bags. We used most of my old bags taking our dog out, but now I just buy the little doggy bags. They are $1 for 100 so it's not too bad and they are alot smaler than a shopping bag. Weonly used the small shopping bags for our bathroom garbage as our kitchen can is a bigger one with a lid, so we just put regular garbage bags in it.

I actually just buy the garbage bags that fit into my kitchen garbage can. I use the grocery store bags for a smaller trash can in the bathroom, so I'm really not wasting them. My kitchen garbage can is way too big for the grocery store bags anyway.

Hey, good for you and your friend too. There is an easy solution to your problem. You can buy proper bin liners in all sizes in your supermarket. They are as cheap as chips and are bio-degradable. What cheeses me off is that the supermarkets don't lower their pries due to less bags being used. Plastic shopping bags are quite expensive and of course the cost is passed on to the consumer. Then again, I guess in an overall perspective it would be only a tiny saving for them/shoppers.

I do use my cloth bags occasionaly. When I am grocery shopping and there will be a lot of bags I do not have enough of the cloth ones to go around so I end up with some plastic. I save them all and use them up. I know that they are not the best things for the environment but if the stores are going to give them to me I will use them as garbage bags. If not I use actual purchaced garbage bags and they are the same except for the cost to me. Is there another sanitary way to get rid of trash with out bags to keep it all together? I guess we could just keep washing out the trash can but then we would be wasting water. My mind will be on this for a while.

we still use plastic bags here, for people to pick up the garbage for free. but if we dump them at city dump they charge $ 2 each bag. if not I will use cardboard boxes, we can get them for free (plastic bags or boxes after grocery) we also have a burner, so we can burn some types of garbage (not all)

many dept. type discount stores will have a bin in the front of their store for people to bring their plastic shopping bags for recycling, you could likely ask the store worker or manager if you could take some of them. I bet they would be happy to comply.

I hate those plastic grocery bags!!! I always ask for paper bags if they are available because we burn our paper gargbage and the paper bags are great to collect the paper garbage in. I buy regular garbage bags for my kitchen canister. They are much stronger than those grocery bags and they hold a ton more. Want some bags, I have many I could give you.

I too live in Manitoba and so I know what you mean. I use a recycle bin for most of my garbage, as I have recycle pick up. Do you not have it in the area you live in? And I have a garberator in my kitchen, so I flush a lot of stuff down that way. But I still have other garbage that I have to put in bags. I have the same problem as you, I use the cloth bags now too. I have gone to the landfill and I have seen what those plastic bags do. There are so many flying around I was totally shocked. So I did the enviromental thing and bought the cloth bags. Now I am buying plastic bags. So it is now costing me more money plus it isn't helping the enviromental thing because all I'm doing is replacing the free ones with the ones I had to buy. I don't think there is a right answer to this one, to getting rid of the plastic bags.

I have also started to use the cloth bags and find sometimes I am running out of plastic bags. In Toronto the city has now issued green bins with secure lids and picks up kitchen waste in those bins. But I live in a high rise and the program has not extended to it, so yes I buy separate kitchen canister bags also but I use them sparingly. I shop at Nofrills and they charge for plastic bags at the checkout. Sometimes I buy a couple, otherwise I save all the thin plastic bags from the store when I buy mushrooms and other veggies or fruits. I put my kitchen waste in these, in small quantities and put them out at least once a day or more. For the garbage cans in the bathrooms I use those sturdy paper bags with the string handles that you get when shopping at the Bay or other department stores. Those last a long time. I pick them up by the handles when I clean and dump the contents in the canister bag and put the empty paper bag back into the bathroom garbage cans. I can see your problem though. It is already winter where you live and you can't put your kitchen waste in the composter. Maybe your city will start picking up kitchen waste in the near future.

We're going to have this problem soon, as our city council is looking at banning the plastic grocery bags. I am not certain what we will do.

i salute your place for eliminating the use of plastic bags. they are really the major source of garbage here in our country. and we are really far from eliminating plastic bags and using paper bags and other organic materials instead. plastic bags are so widely used here, in malls, markets, groceries, etc. there are only few who are actually using paper bags. those that use plastic bags say that it is economical. that's why i can't help but wonder if plastic bags are cheaper than paper bags. coz i have this notion that those brown paper bags are cheaper than plastic bags. ^__^;; i can't really think of a very good suggestion for you and all i can think of is the black garbage plastic which the janitors usually use here in the office when collecting thrash. ^__^

I buy the garbage bags that fit into my garbage bin if I don't have any plastic shopping bags to use.

Hello! Here, all the grocery shops are still using plastic bags so it's an advantage. Although I buy those big garbage bags, I still use those plastic grocery bags for the rubbish, it's useful and cheap making you save money, recycling. I dunno what i'll do without plastic bags, it must be very hard to where to put all your rubbish. Take care. *smile* ciao! c",)

Although going "green" is all the new rage and is wonderful for our envirornment I have run across this same problem. If you have a trash service see if you can do bagless trash. However you will have to clean your trash can a lot to make sure it doesnt get too disgusting. I have heard that they have super biodegratable bags that are made of recycled paper product. Which is a lot safer for the envirornment and they are recycled so you dont have to feel as guilty about using them in the winter months.