Comments on: Envirosax vs. Chicobags

By: Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish

Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:50 +0000

I vote for Chico Bags because they are sooooo easy to stuff and unstuff and the pouch is just so damned cute.

Regarding trash bags — the less trash you have, the less need for trash bags. Depending on your community, you can recycle paper, metal, and many types of plastic. Also, depending on your community, you can compost your yard and food waste. If you don’t have community composting, there are ways to do it at home. Once the recycling and the wet food waste is out of the way, the only trash left is unrecyclable plastic. First, reduce that stuff as much as possible. Then, the rest needs very little in the way of a bag, if any bag at all.

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Great post.

Beth

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bradaptation.com » Blog Archive » A Quick Trip to Lincoln — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:49:33 +0000

[...] Lauren made friends with the checker because they got to talk about Chicobags. [...]

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:36:04 +0000

I use garbage bags, too. We have a plentiful supply of old plastic-y bags around here anyway. (There is a family at the Center who donates all theirs, so I take a few home.) I use those to line our little trash cans, but I don’t tie those up each week. I go around the house and dump the little cans into the big bag. Lately we’ve just had one big kitchen-sized bag of trash and about three ‘kitty litter presents’ in the can at the curb each week. I’ve been using all kinds of bags for those -- Subway bags, the bag Lloyd’s frozen strawberries were in, old lunch bags. It’s getting crazy!

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:20:42 +0000

Um…trash bags. Is that weird?

By: Deanne

Deanne — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:11:02 +0000

I have a question. We use our grocery bags for trash. What does anyone out there use for trash?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:14:55 +0000

Amen!

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:35:48 +0000

I don’t know…being the proud owner of my very own Chicobag (a beautiful PINK one, courtesy of Lauren), I have to say the convenience of the ‘just squishing it back into a little pouch’ rocks! It beats folding and rolling any day of the week.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:10:14 +0000

Sorry -- I recycled all the quarters to make a new Brad.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:26:06 +0000

While I appreciate the rulers, I miss the usual quarter. Can we get a shot with a quarter please?

By: Annette

Annette — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:10:21 +0000

Are those the rulers I’m missing from my desk?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:22:23 +0000

No, we should probably try to recycle him. Thanks, though.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:34:02 +0000

Your comment wasn’t there when I was typing Lauren. Would you like us to throw Brad in the ocean for you?

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:31:46 +0000

hehe … throw them in the ocean.

I say Envirosax too. Surely you can come up with a way to close them more quickly. Give the other ones to some homeless people … yes, designer bags for the homeless.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:19:23 +0000

What combination of punctuation do I use to make a mad, squinty-eyed face?

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:22:44 +0000

To me, it looks like Envirosax win in every category. They’re bigger, they’re patterned, they have better handles, and they pack as small as Chicobags.

I say you should throw the Chicobags in the ocean.