I was pouring my cereal one day and I thought about what a waste it is that I have to throw away the cereal bag. At least the cardboard box can be recycled. The plastic bag is just waste. Or is it?
I decided to add this quandary to my list of things to consult Google about. Sure as pork chops on a stick, the friggin bag can be recycled. A better person, or a person farther along in their journey of zero waste, has surely figured out how to eliminate the box of cereal and the bag long ago. I'm not there yet! Things take time. That's why you read this blog, I'm on the journey and we are doing this together.
There is in fact, a way to recycle bags, aka soft plastic. Soft plastic is cereal bags, shopping bags from the store that you shouldn't be using, and any super flexible plastic or "plastic film" that doesn't tear like paper.
Soft plastic and plastic film cannot be recycled in your curbside container. It will jam up the sorting machines and the workers will curse your very existence.
What we do is hang a bag on the fridge with a magnet and we add our soft plastic into that bag. Once in a while, I'll remember to drop it off at Target or Lunds in the bin that is ever so hungry for your soft plastic waste. If you haven't yet figured out a way to avoid the soft plastic, feed it to the bin.
What we do is hang a bag on the fridge with a magnet and we add our soft plastic into that bag. Once in a while, I'll remember to drop it off at Target or Lunds in the bin that is ever so hungry for your soft plastic waste. If you haven't yet figured out a way to avoid the soft plastic, feed it to the bin.
Not sure what soft plastic or plastic film is? Check out this website: plasticfilmrecycling
The bin that's hungry for your oh-so-soft plastic
Look for this symbol on bags
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