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Six Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Grocery Bags

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Plastic grocery bags can be irritating and useful all at the same time. These days most grocery stores no longer offer paper sacks, and if you have forgotten your reusable bags, you are probably going to go home with anywhere from one to two dozen little plastic sacks. Some recycling centers will recycle these bags as well.

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From Trash To Teasure

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Earning from trash through recycling is a great way to earn some extra cash and help save the environment at the same time. Excess trash has been a common problem of all societies for decades, and recycling is a way to transform trash into something useful. Numerous websites are dedicated to buying these used electronics.

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How To Re-use Common Items

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Brown grocery bag s (when we can get them) are used for wrapping boxes for mailing and artwork by children as well as lining the kitchen trash can. Old paper from things such as newspapers, magazines, discards from the printer and etc are used at our house to start fires, make notes and for grocery lists.

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