Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Reuse Plastic Shopping Bags.
“You probably have dozens of plastic sh0pping bags lying around the house. Use them to lin your garbage cans instead of buying a box of trash bags at the supermarket. For every ton of plastic bags that are used, the energy equivalent of 11 barrels of oil is saved.”
For most people this is a no-brainer. Do you have any other ways you reuse your plastic shopping bags? Here’s one I haven’t seen before: Make them into flowers! Need a way to store all of your plastic sacks? Check out this article on 20+ different ways to keep your bags organized!
See all of the other tips in our Go Green series.