[Savage Beast]

It would help to wash the bags regularly—might even solve the problem. Some of them are cute little plastic bags that can’t be washed. Maybe I’ll get some washable bags or go back to the disposable ones.

[PrincessB]

Cute little plastic bags can be sprayed with Lysol, bleach-water or wiped out with a warm cloth and dried. If the meat or dairy leaks, my bags get treated.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It would help to wash the bags regularly—might even solve the problem.

But that would defeat the purpose!

Doing your laundry harms the environment too. All that water you are wasting, and all that soap you are putting into the waste water.

Just stop eating and you won't need any grocery bags. Your very existence is a burden on the environment, and you should be ashamed of yourself for even being alive.

[ErnBatavia]

I have a couple but have so far failed to remember to take 'em into the store and actually use 'em.....but I'd simply keep an aerosol can of disinfectant handy and give a spritz now and again.

I do this with my trash cans, even though most everything that goes in is bagged; keeps the funk factor way down.