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getagrip_already

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6. Use them....

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Wed Jul 28, 2021, 06:46 PM

Jul 2021

As fire starters (if you have a fireplace that is), compost them in your garden, or use them for worm food (we have a worm bin and they love cardboard and heavy paper).

Plain brown bags don't have anything toxic in them. They are safe for garden composting.

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any idea how best to get rid of dozens of brown grocery bags? [View all] Grasswire2 Jul 2021 OP

put them out with your usual trash pickup? see if the googwill etc want them? nt msongs Jul 2021 #1

Thrift shops dweller Jul 2021 #2

Give to a local farmer's market vendor. quaint Jul 2021 #3

Use them for yard waste? we can do it Jul 2021 #4

Take them to a food pantry utopian Jul 2021 #5

where is your pantry? Grasswire2 Jul 2021 #8

Multnomah Village utopian Jul 2021 #13

Use them.... getagrip_already Jul 2021 #6

Find someone with an indoor cat. vanlassie Jul 2021 #7

If there is a local food pantry, they are always in need! Fla Dem Jul 2021 #9

I use them to gather recyclables for pickup EYESORE 9001 Jul 2021 #10

Use for drawing/painting/crayon-ing paper when you don't want to use expensive white paper. fierywoman Jul 2021 #11

We save ours for when we have a fire in the fireplace in winter Nictuku Jul 2021 #12