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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

I don’t use them. It just that simple,

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.

Only replace the bags once a month unless visibly soiled by emptying the individual trash can into a large bag.

Or the compostable trash bags sold on Amazon?

Have you tried paper trash liners?

Searching tips on how to reduce use of plastic trash bags for the bathrooms? I have significantly reduced the use of plastic in general.