The average lunch contains 3 plastic snack bags, which adds up to thousands a year for each family. Making all those plastic bags requires lots of oil — a key ingredient in plastics — and throwing them away adds to our garbage problem.
Simply washing and reusing plastic bags reduces the need to make new ones, reduces waste and saves money. Think about it: washing them even once can cut your family’s plastic bag habit in half and you can certainly wash them more than once!
I wash mine in the sink, when I am doing the dinner dishes. While washing each one takes just a few seconds, getting them to dry can be frustratingly slow. A simple plastic bag dryer like the one Annie showed Ty can be made at home and speeds up the process.
Simply use a vase, a glass jar, even a coffee mug. Fill it with rice, beans, marbles or anything heavy enough to hold it in place. Stick chop sticks, bamboo skewers, even tinkertoy pieces in it and it’s ready to dry! Hanging the bags on these sticks prevents water from collecting in folds and speeds up the drying.
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