This Is the Easiest Way to Recycle Plastic Bags
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Don't toss your plastic bags—they're actually pretty easy to recycle!
You already know that there are many better alternatives to plastic bags for storage—here are some of our favorite eco-friendly alternatives—but despite your best efforts to have a reusable shopping bag on you when you’re running errands, an unexpected trip or purchase can end in you being the proud owner of yet another plastic bag. Throwing them in the garbage may seem harmless, but plastic bags aren’t biodegradable, meaning they’ll take hundreds of years to decompose. Your best bet is to take advantage of plastic bag recycling.
The easiest option for plastic bag recycling is to take them back to the store. Most national grocery retailers, including Target, Walmart, and Whole Foods, as well as department stores like JCPenney and Kohl’s, and home improvement stores including Home Depot and Lowe’s, offer a bag collection bin onsite. You can simply type in your zip code here to find out the options nearest you. There may some retail locations that have a different policy regarding what they will accept for recycling, so always check first.
Along with harboring a plastic bag in your home, you likely have plenty of other plastic packaging that could be recycled, as well.
While plastic bags, wraps, and films can’t be recycled in your curbside recycling bins in most communities in the United States, any package that you see with the How2Recycle Store Drop-Off label can be recycled by bringing it to the local retail stores mentioned above.
While grocery and produce bags are obvious qualifiers, you may be overlooking other flexible plastics made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), such as bread bags, some plastic wraps, some plastic mailers, and some cereal bags. Before you toss something into the trash, check to see if you can recycle it. Chances are you can with a little digging around to find the right place.
Smaller plastic bags may go unnoticed, like newspaper bags and zipper sandwich bags. These can be also recycled through Store Drop-Off. Stretchy plastic wraps, like those around multi-packs of drink bottles and paper towels, can also be brought to your nearest How2Recycle retailers.
There’s one very important step of plastic bag recycling to remember! Be sure what you drop off is clean. That means removing receipts, gum, produce leaves, and other debris. Now that you know the best way to recycle plastic bags, find out how you can recycle just about anything else. Happy recycling!
Source: Reader´s Digest
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