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When I take plastic bags at the store, I put them in a big plastic bag at home. Is it normal to keep plastic bags ?
Yeah I do it too. They come in handy when I want to line the garbage pails with something.
I store mine in a coffee can. I like the hard plastic folgers ones, but if you use a cheaper can, just duct tape the lid on and cut a rectangle in it. Keeps things tidy.
Perfectly normal. Its better than wasting them, and you dont have to pay for small trash bags.
Not sure where you live, but this is becoming less and less common in the UK.
Since 2015, the law in Britain has required large retailers to charge five pence for every single-use plastic bag handed over to a customer (the rules are voluntary for small shops, and they allow free bags for some things, such as raw meat and fish). That little change has resulted in retailers handing out around 85% fewer bags than before the charge. I can't be bothered to find the current figure for the total reduction over the last three years, but I know that in the first six months of the charge, the number of bags handed out was around 500,000, whereas in the same period the year before around 7 million bags were given to customers.
We started reusing plastic bags for grocery shopping back in the 1990s (and got a few odd looks because of that), and so the only change for us was the availability of proper "bags for life".
Next in the campaigners' sights are plastic straws (1.8 million of those handed out every day by McDonalds alone in the UK), single use plastic water bottles, and the "paper" cups used by cafes - which aren't actually paper, but rather non-recyclable, non-biodegradable plastic-coated paper.