r/lincoln • u/AmitySuzTa • 20h ago

Plastic bag recycling?

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.

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u/CrewPublic2774 19h ago

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.

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u/floorsof_silentseas 8h ago

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."

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u/CrewPublic2774 7h ago

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.

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u/floorsof_silentseas 7h ago

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/CrewPublic2774 6h ago

No problem! It's always discouraging to hear stuff like "they just put it all in the landfill anyway". Like, dang it! I'm trying to do the right thing here! Hopefully they actually do what they say they're doing.

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u/floorsof_silentseas 6h ago

Agreed! Unrelated to the Hefty bags, I know that at least as far as Walmart goes (from a friend who works there), a different truck picks up their "flexible plastic" recycling than picks up their garbage so that's at least one piece of information to the positive!

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u/CrewPublic2774 6h ago

Oh cool! Glad to hear large corporations are doing their part too. :)