I recently stopped using trash bags so that I am, officially, a plastic bag free household. Whatever can't be composted or recyled goes directly into my trash can's removeable hard plastic insert. I put a little of my cats litter (it's just ground up walnut shells) in the bottom to keep down the smell and absorb any rogue liquids.

It's gone considerably better than I anticipated so far. Has anyone else tried eliminating trash bags? If so, how has your experience been?

  • penitentOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Where I live they discourage that. They also don’t want you to use paper bags. The reasons as far as I remember are that more waste will fly away when emptying the dumpster and nastier dumpsters causing worse working conditions for the person driving the truck. The third reason (doesn’t apply to me personally) is sorting based on bag color.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a fair point. I’ll have to reach out to the sanitation company and find out if they have any specific concerns. If they do, hopefully we’ll be able to address them

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      Where I live they also don’t encourage loose garbage or even garbage in loosely tied or untied bags. The reason here is that uncontained garbage subjected to a brisk wind, which we have plenty of, becomes litter. And no one wants to award themselves a ZeroWaste badge when they are directly contributing to landscape litter.