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Paper or Plastic? Neither One, Please

04/23/08 - 10:45 AM EDT

Eileen Gunn

New York City passed a law requiring major retailers to provide recycling by this summer for grocery bags (and even dry cleaning plastic). I expect that pretty soon other cities will follow suit and that more chain stores will voluntarily provide recycling bins.

In the meantime, PlasticBagRecycling.org can help you find places nearby that recycle all kinds of plastic bags. And if that fails, Chester's Clean House offers 19 creative ways to reuse them.

Plastic shopping bags have become as ubiquitous as they are because they're so utterly convenient. But collecting fewer of them as you go through your day might not be as inconvenient as we've been led to believe.




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Eileen P. Gunn writes about the business of life and is the author of "Your Career Is An Extreme Sport." You can learn more about her at her Web site.

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