We also have five cats. Lost #6 in August. Our friends save their plastic shopping bags for us. We have lots of friends, thank heaven! :)
I save ours and recycle them. As trash can liners in all three bathrooms and the can under this desk. And riddle me this, Freeple (and Slow Joe): what will you do about the millions upon millions of people nationwide who have large kitchen cans, some of whom (like me) require the 30 gallon size? Schlep out to your curbside can every day and dump open trash into it from a little 12 quart can? Ever watch how the contract trash pandas (excuse me, ‘municipal sanitation engineers’) empty them? They don’t police their spent brass. If it spills, you’re out there cleaning up after them. (My neighbor is notorious for that. I’m forever cleaning the spilled garbage from his repair shop can out of my yard. I’m gonna set it on fire one night, mark my words.)