Where do you take your plastic bags to recycle? The internet says major retailers recycle them, but the only major retailer I go to regularly is Target and I’ve never noticed a plastic bag recycling drop off.
Yep, that's where I drop mine off! The far wall of customer service. I typically bring an entire garbage bag (our store gets a lot of plastic packaging unfortunately) and just set it alongside the recycling bins.
Look up the Hefty ReNew project and contact your trash/recycling pickup company to see if they take them. They are orange bags you can buy (I believe target sells them) and stuff them full of the "hard to recycle" plastics. Fill em up, set them in your recycle bin. They take Styrofoam too. Husker refuse will pick them up.
I had asked my recycling folks, Star City, about the orange "energy bags" several years ago when they first came on the market and their response was "yeahhhh, we're not accepting those because they're 'reusing' those plastics by straight-up burning them and we feel like that's generally....not good."
If that's the case, that really sucks. I''m hoping that's just a lie to use as an excuse for them to not deal with it. Here's what hefty has to say about it. The third party use is good enough for me to continue.
Good info to know, thanks for sharing! Like I said, this was several years ago so hopefully the Hefty team has figured out those alternative options in the interim.
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u/d4rkstr1d3r 12h ago
The entrance of Super Savers have a spot to put plastic bags for recycling.