Plastic Film Recycling
What is plastic film - It is a lot more than grocery bags. It's produce bags, bread bags, tortilla bags any plastic film that stretches when you pull it is recycleable at the grocery store. It is a pain to recycle but it is important. It boosts the ecomony. The grocery store makes money, the recycler gets cheap recycled material to build composite decking that lasts pretty much forever and is unlikely to be thrown out. However, reducing is still the critical solution, below are ideas from obvious to creative.
Re-Useable grocery bags:
This is commonly know but how often do you remember to use them ( I forget mine a lot). We challenge you to try to achieve as close to 100% as you can. It really does matter.
The material and quality of these bags matter. If you have large plastic grocery bags use them. You remember the early cloth bags that only held a gallon of milk. We need to make a list on 100 things you can do to repurpose these, as they are not all that useful for shopping and there has to be 1000's of these floating around. Below are some examples of why re-useable bags are much more useful these days that either plastic or early re-useable bag fails.
The first bag is elegant looking, made from canvas and is insulated like a cooler. If you stop on your way home from the store your icecream won't melt. I would bring this to the beach for a picnic.