Bathroom Tash bag - reducing plastic

Anonymous
Searching tips on how to reduce use of plastic trash bags for the bathrooms? I have significantly reduced the use of plastic in general.
Anonymous
Have you tried paper trash liners?
Anonymous
Or the compostable trash bags sold on Amazon?
Anonymous
Only replace the bags once a month unless visibly soiled by emptying the individual trash can into a large bag.
Anonymous
We only use bags we already had (like, if we ended up with a plastic grocery bag or a takeout bag). Or sometimes we don’t use a liner… just use a metal or plastic can that you can easily clean if needed.
Anonymous
I don’t use them. It just that simple,
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I don’t use them. It just that simple,


+1

I don't care if they're dirty and germ ridden.

I only use them for bathroom trash. Maybe one day I'll use them for garage trash.
Anonymous
DH re-uses the plastic produce bags he gets from Whole Foods. I thought they'd be too flimsy, but even when DD plays bathroom basketball with her rolled-up sanitary napkins, they're fine.
Anonymous
I think a bathroom trash bag is a blip in the grand scheme of things, but we'll sometimes use a plastic grocery/target bag or one of those plastic bags that packages get delivered in (if we're not planning to re-use it for shipping, especially the ones that don't have a sticky strip for return mailings).
Anonymous
It has never occurred to me that people use plastic trash bad in their home bathroom trash. I guess my mom does but that’s because my dad is incontinent and has a lot of adult diapers plus my mom is OCD and puts everything in plastic. I really didn’t know other people did this.
Anonymous
I don't replace the liner very often - I just dump the can into the larger bag, like the kitchen bag. Maybe once a month it really needs to be changed.
Anonymous
I don’t use trash bag liners in our bathrooms cans. We just dump out the trash into the kitchen trash bag on trash days. Bathroom cans have plastic inserts that get washed out as needed.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t use them. It just that simple,


+1

I don't care if they're dirty and germ ridden.

I only use them for bathroom trash. Maybe one day I'll use them for garage trash.


The container is washable. I wipe it down every couple of weeks. No bag.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Searching tips on how to reduce use of plastic trash bags for the bathrooms? I have significantly reduced the use of plastic in general.

Use those plastic grocery bags you throw away when you go shopping for food or clothing, etc. Free.
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