DIY Life

Plastic grocery bags, the kind that millions of us have tucked into kitchen cabinets, stuffed in our purses and hiding under couch cushions are NOT recyclable. That's right. They don't biodegrade, they photodegrade. This means they break down into smaller and smaller pieces of litter but they never dissolve or completely go away. This is bad news to those of us who strive to recycle and make the world a better, cleaner place. Since I began learning the true facts about plastic grocery bags, I have switched to using cloth bags for groceries and toting about my mountains of stuff. However, I still have entire kitchen cabinets filled with these plastic atrocities and am not sure what to do with them. Fortunately, I have found some great ideas and have come up with a few of my own. In no particular order following are some hints on what to do with the pesky bags so that they are no littering the road side or ocean: