Please don’t put them in your recycling bin! It messes up the machines that separate your recyclables.
But you can recycle a lot more than plastic bags at the grocery store. Most groceries have a place for you to recycle plastic bags. But did you know you can also include baggies, plastic mailers, cereal bags and more. These are sometimes referred to as plastic ‘film,’ meaning thin, often stretchy plastic. Just be reasonable about how much you bring to the store to recycle.
Plastics are really complicated. They don’t want cheese wrapping, Saran Wrap, or frozen vegetable bags. Click here to download the Trex poster.