The strangest thing is, if exposed to sunlight, plastic bags degrade quickly to near dust. A better way to take care of the plastic bags is to recycle them to another use. Plastic bags are made from a byproduct of refining organic oil. Newspaper and magazines btw, take centuries to degrade if they end up in landfills, maybe no different or worse than plastic.
I recycle mine.
I fill them with combustible trash, tie them up and toss them in the burn barrel
“Newspaper and magazines btw, take centuries to degrade if they end up in landfills”
Do we care what happens to them when in landfills? We don’t grow things in landfills. Will the landfills eventually be spread out and things grown on them? If so, the newspapers near the surface will be a good soil amendment. But along with the newspapers is other solid junk some of which is toxic.
EXACTLY. I remember using some of them a few years back to store something outside and they turned to rags after a couple of months. These @$$holes are making up laws just to feel good without having ANY concept of the reality behind what they’re trying to address.
I recycle them as trash bags for the small cans in bedroom or bathroom, poopy diapers which take 500 yrs to decompose from my grand daughter. Wet trash from cooking that would smell up the house. Get to many they go back to the store to their recycle bin.
I’ve plenty of sturdy canvas ones made that I can wash weekly after a trip to the grocery store. Whose bags have been recycled more than once, same goes for the drink bottles, they get reused for cool fridge water or packing in the cooler frozen.