Does plastic bag recycling at stores like Target and Walmart really work? The ABC7 I-Team and ABC News launched an investigation to find out. FULL STORY: bit.ly/3Mus4J7
If you have a lot of flexible plastic wrap/film/bags, why not still commit to recycle it at these venues though, knowing now that it may or may not get recycled, since it frees up space in your already full garbage bin at home. It becomes someone else's responsibility and a free way to get rid of plastic bags that would end up as trash anyway.
I've seen plenty of store bag recycling bins being used by people as a garbage bin, with actual food in it and such. The recycling companies don't sort and clean the plastic. If there are any contaminants in the bundle then it all gets rejected from the recycling. The act of observing disturbs the observed. The tags aren't recyclable, at least not as "plastic bag waste," therefore the bin of plastic which included the tag got rejected for recycling and sent to a landfill.
We need to levy the true cost of the flexible plastic film industry. It's not cheaper to use these plastics. It's destroying the environment when more sustainable options exist. We need to end the corporate government cronyism.
Home owners are fined if they do not recycle, yet this scam goes on behind your back. The same in UK and many other countries. Its a complete load of rubbish.
Because they don't know either. They likely get loaded on a truck and sent back to a store distribution center where they are maybe picked up by a recycler (or trash hauler).
Ima give You a random one .. I worked for Starbucks, at the front of d store we would have to "recycle" soo carefully, every smallest thing. Then afterwards we would take all d trash bags around the back n trow em all in one skip. The same story for most of the other cooperations I worked for .. Ohh and all the endless food waste in factory's/ restaurants/ shops, You wouldn't believe Your eyes.
I reuse my plastic bags as much as possible.. I found out years ago my area doesn’t have plastic, paper and glass facilities.. I have found that these bags have other uses around the house and used to the point they are reduced in size.
I wish they would have added Jewel/Osco to their list. I rarely use plastic bags anymore. The ones I have I keep using over and over again. It truly is a huge problem in all of our states. I was surprised at Walmart, but there I take my own cloth bags.
I'm old enough to remember when policy makers (politicians) replaced paper bags with plastic bags to save the trees. Now when I shop at Walmarts in Colorado there are no plastic bags but they will sell me paper bags and stand bag and watch me bag my stuff. Progress!! 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🙄🙄
Recycling plastic bags is very difficult. Our factory has been producing degradable and recyclable plastic bags for 23 years. We hope that people can develop the habit of recycling plastic bags
I just started collecting bags to make plarn. It uses about 85% of the bag, but there’s still plastic waste left. I watched this in hopes that I would find out what the end result of actually recycled plastic bags is to see if the cut up plastic is still usable, or if dropping a bag of scraps will just mess things up for recyclers. While this hasn’t answered that question, it does kinda seem like it doesn’t matter either way!
@@jessicagollan2535 so I’m not sure the original TikTok that I watched that first told me about it, but the video I found most useful was “How To Make a Plarn Bed Roll” on the FOX8 WBHP RU-vid channel. It walks you through making the plarn and turning it specifically into a mat/bedroll. I haven’t played around with thickness and other uses yet. But I do hope to make a reusable shopping bag out of shopping bags :)
no worries in time we will pay for all this bad habits we do and then we either die or find a solution :) as long as plastic companies make profit from creating instead of recycling surely in time their children will be blamed later on when they grow up. cant wait for that comment section and flying blame planes going all over
Did no one think that they saw there was something attached to the bag and they cannot recycle it? I have a friend who works in recycling they check the bags for contaminates if there are they are rejected and sent to trash.
Go back to using Paper Bags. They're Biodegradable, unlike Plastic. Next time I go to a local grocery store I will be asking for Paper Bags, which they also supply besides Plastic Bags.
rose, that's what i do. for a while here in austin you had to bring your own bags or you could ask for paper. i thought it was good but people got lazy and it was too much trouble for them. i am trying to do my part. i wish everyone would do at least one thing to help the environment every day...
@@pattiannepascual exactly. when those dangerous chemicals go up into the sky...some people think it just disappears. i know better. i was raised in a refinery town where practically everyone worked for oil & gas companies. my brother died of lung cancer at 55, my sister at 50, my daddy @70, we have lots of cancers run in my family and not to mention all the asthma, copd and other breathing problems do to the fact that those chemical hot shots have de-regulated any & every safety measures to stop THEIR poisons that they are getting away with emitting for US to pay for...people just don't care!
This is hard. But it very cleaver to come up with the AirTag 🪙idea 💡 to track these bags. I always wanted to know what they really doing with these bags. As long as it’s out my house to make space and keep the space clean. I’m fine whatever they do with it afterwards.
