The many uses of a plastic bag...actually not that many

There's a trend toward using reusable bags for groceries and shopping, but even the best of us forget those canvas totes once in awhile and grab those environmental-sucking plastic ones. There are, however, many uses for them before chucking them in the garbage:

• garbage-can lining, in lieu of real trash bags, especially good for small wastepaper baskets


• transporting stuff
  
• dumping foods that will smell in the garbage if it's not garbage day for a few days
• to wrap foods that you're freezing
• to wrap other foods that don't require freezing but are messy (ie: flour)
• ...it's good to have a bag filled with plastic bags in case you need, and to bring to the grocery stores that have areas to recycle plastic bags