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How can plastic grocery bags be creatively reduced, reused, or recycled?

These littering bags waste petroleum and aren't very biodegradable. How can they be minimized or utilized better? What are creative ways to reuse them? ALL CAN JOIN US HERE AT 4pm CST (21:00 GMT) ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 TO BRAINSTORM THIS LIVE!

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Creator:djeich
Created:about 1 year ago
Activity:14 days ago
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use them to make rain coats... Suja----File Transfer---http://www.sysax.com/
s1j71 | 14 days ago
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use them to make rain coats... Suja----File Transfer
s1j71 | 14 days ago
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use them as containers for items that are not always used such as x-mas decorations.......or we could use them as pots for plants....
wheew | 4 months ago
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hold mass recycling days throughout the year for recycling plastic bags. Start with educational institutes and government agencies and work up all the way to the private sector and then families
ocean | 5 months ago
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1.) Offer tax grants to supermarkets and shops who provide a certain amount of discount on most of their items if customers brought their own bags, be in plastic or otherwise.
ocean | 5 months ago
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if you have a leak in your shoe put the plastic bag over your foot and then put your shoe on it makes a great water proof guard.
kool_kat_880 | 5 months ago
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use the old bags to create a "yarn" for crocheting reusable grocery bags! www.remodelinglibrary.com
Noustie | 5 months ago
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Reduced : Say NO / Ask Govt. to put ban / Ask Shopkeeper to provide alternate paper/cloth bags. Once u get one plastic bag , keep it in your car and start using that one for multiple purposes. Maintain a count of how many you have. Reused : I think Govt in India is using the junked plastic bags while making big freeways, they mix it with the tar and looks like it increases the grip. Recycled : ???
nitinsoni | 5 months ago
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pack them full with snow and build a fort
dadeal | 7 months ago
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use them instead of 'packing peanuts' when you're mailing a parcel www.intimateattitudes.com
intimateattitudes | 8 months ago
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use them as a cap to cover hair treatments ie: clour treatments, hot oil treatment, lice treatment www.intimateattitudes.com
intimateattitudes | 8 months ago
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Make wedding car flower decorations out of them www.intimateattitudes.com
intimateattitudes | 8 months ago
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Use them to stuff into holes and cracks to block cold air...like around windows, plumbing or in a greenhouse to minimize drafts.
sasso | 8 months ago
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Design and make small household or office garbage cans that are a perfect fit for these grocery bags. Make them so they hold in place by the handles. Have a lid that covers the overhanging bag so you can't see them. Imagine reusing these for garbage bags so we do not have to buy garbage bags. We just throw away garbage bags, wy not use the plastic grocery bag as a garbage bag. Most everyone just throws them away anyway. ReUse or We Lose
LoveToImproveIt | 10 months ago
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Combine them with other recycled products to make a wood-like product when compressed or glued and then use this to replace wood as a construction material(2x4's, particle boards, flooring, etc...). Then encourage companies and consumers who produce, use, or sell these products with tax incentives, grants, or free advertising! Imagine not destoying entire forests because we used something twice.
LoveToImproveIt | 10 months ago
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firstly make them out of pot and smoke it afterward
abstractangela | 10 months ago
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Get grocery stores to start clothe bag rental program
danielgartenberg | 11 months ago
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203.
Use at home and in animal shelters for lining litter boxes and disposing of animal waste products.
goldlis | 11 months ago
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we have a kitchen area rug or throw rug made out of bags. Bought at green store
peterlloyd | about 1 year ago
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melt them down and turn this waste stream into a new raw material
mauhaus | about 1 year ago
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They make great kites if you have kids
Maghintay | about 1 year ago
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use them to make rain coats
akshit | about 1 year ago
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Allow grocery chains to repurchase the used bags at a lesser price than they would pay for new plastic bags. In order to make this feasible a large quantity of bags would be needed for re-sale. Schools can collect these bags from students. Proceeds can go back to classrooms or school funding. Same concept applies to large offices promoting a "go green" campaign
scp68 | about 1 year ago
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Turn into bags for sandbags that can be used by local governments for citizens in case of flooding, etc.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Start a program at schools across the world to teach kids and teenagers they need to recycle plastic stuff like plastic bags and other stuff that needs to be recycled. This would get people at a young age into the habit to recycle stuff.
Creator | about 1 year ago
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Collapse bags into cell phone sized pouch to easily bring to store. Really interesting MSNBC video report on paper vs. plastic: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23358591
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Use them as bird scarers
Publicasity | about 1 year ago
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the best thing to do is to urge supermarkets to make the bags in sizes so that it fits the small bins in each room like the one next to the study table. this will reduce cost of buying bin bags and also throwing rubbish every week.
aaabbbccc | about 1 year ago
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In Bangalore, India old/waste plastic bags are used to lay roads. Links: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/16/stories/2006081620460400.htm
prasad | about 1 year ago
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get one of those paper lamps from IKEA and glue lots of bags onto it. Looks amazing.
hoohoonick | about 1 year ago
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Collect them and make a messenger bag!!! they are cool look at this tutorial, (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/making_messenger_bags_the.html)
hjbarraza | about 1 year ago
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The BBC news site recently had a debate about this subject: Should shops do more to reduce packaging? http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=3719&edition=1&ttl=20071024194047
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Use them as garbage bags - that's what I do at home.
pg99 | about 1 year ago
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186.
Shred them into tiny pieces so they can be used as fake snow in window displays
Mezza | about 1 year ago
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Put them under sheets to make a bed uncomfortable for an unwelcome visitor
Mezza | about 1 year ago
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recycle bags into crates then they can make the transportation of shopping easier and more economical.
Mezza | about 1 year ago
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This was an amazing live brainstorm session! We achieved most all of this in only 1-2 hours....with most the first half hour. Now click on the "good idea" button on the right to start rating the best ideas!
djeich | about 1 year ago
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If you are feeling ill, place plastic loops around your ears and use the bag to catch anything that might not want to stay in your body.
megantempel | about 1 year ago
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181.
Burn them instead of coal at the powerplant.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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180.
Promote the challenge "Name 100 uses for a plastic bag" as a standard creativity challenge in training and exercises. This way the people will be trying to solve the problem for years to come!
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Put your shampoo, toothpaste, and shaving cream in them when you travel so that when the baggage handlers bang up your bag, it doesnt leak onto your clothes.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Select the best ideas from this brainstorm and publish them on the Global Ideas Bank to spread the message.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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177.
Print the contents of this brainstorm on all plastic bags to suggest ideas for uses and to promote the green message
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Use them as planters for your houseplants - you could even use them for hanging plants using the handles.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Melt them down and make them into crates.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Put a can of soup in one, whirl it over your head, and see how far you can throw it. Challenge your friends!
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Turn them into a universal weighlifting set. Put a few bags inside each other and fill with a big of rice, cans or soup, etc. and do arm curls.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Cut the bags into strips and hang from your window as blinds
djeich | about 1 year ago
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171.
Make all grocery store packaging be able to fit into square crates so you can easily move them to your trunk and into home without bags
djeich | about 1 year ago
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(5 Google for information, inspiration, or ideas.) This Google image search (with search "plastic bags") produced this image: http://30gms.com/images/uploads/I_am_not_a_plastic_bad.jpg gives the idea: put advertising on plastic bags and use funds raised to concentrate on disposing of bags safely and spreading green message.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Use them to wrap Christmas presents.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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168.
Give a few of the bags to your sweetheart for Valentine's day.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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167.
Create an environmental olympics where the main event involves creative ways to reuse these bags.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Put one down your pants and walk around a bit to help you think of more ideas for this brainstorm.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Put them under your sofa cushions to make it softer.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Use them to make "summer snowmen."
djeich | about 1 year ago
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163.
Colour all plastic bags green so that if they are dumped they are not such an eyesore
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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What if we could seal oxygen or other gases into these plastic bags? Then when we need to use the gas, you can puncture the bag and put a "tap" pipe on it.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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Charge $0.05 for each of them at the checkout.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Print flags on bags so that when the Olympics or World Cup is on you can attach them to your car and show your allegiance
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Tie them to your car's attenna as a decoration. Or the bumper. Or to the seat on your bike.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Take photos of birds and animals trapped in discarded bags and show them in shops as a deterrent
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Put your laptop in them when it is in your backpack and it is raining so it doesn't get wet from the moisture that seeps through.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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156.
Have huge signs outside shops telling people what to do with old plastic bags
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Save up all you get for a year and then put them in Darin's mailbox as a prank.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Take them along when you go to the farmers' market and put your purchases in them.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Make blankets out of them for homeless people.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Why does a bag have to be bag shaped? Why not just have sheets of plastic that can be wrapped around the shopping? Then these sheets would have constructive uses - as garden covers or maybe shelters for the homeless.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Melt enough down to be able to make huge blocks that can be used as seats in parks and bus shelters
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Have special and convenient parking spaces immediately outside shops: "only for customers who don't use plastic bags".
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Grind them up to make confetti.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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148.
Make sculptures using plastic bags
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Encourage baggers to stop putting things with handles into them (e.g. gallons of milk, 6-packs, bottles of detergent).
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Wrap bags around apples on trees so that when the apples fall they are caught by the bag
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Shops could have a rule: only three bags per person. Or, they could weight your shopping and a chart shows how many bags the person is allowed
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Fill them with water and put them in your freezer to make huge ice cubes for your cooler.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Put useful advice on plastic bags - maybe about safety in the home, first aid or safe driving etc
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Improve the ergonomic shape of products that would help people carry them just by hand, without the use of plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Put list of suggestions on every bag: "100 things to do with this plastic bag"
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Use it as gloves when working with grease and automobile parts
shikha | about 1 year ago
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I had a dog that ate one, and it went right through him without causing any abnormal stoppage or anything. Maybe we could eat them to help curb appetite and lose weight.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Use it as gloves to do your dishes
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Put 1,000 of them in your shirt and pants and sumo wrestle one another!!!!!!!!
djeich | about 1 year ago
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make t-shirts out of plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Use them as condoms.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Fill them with dirt and build levees out of them.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Create camping tents from plastic
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Use it as a meditative tool. Slowly breathe in and out of it while focusing on something.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Use them as idea bags. Every time you get an idea throw it into your bag.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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create a bicycle tire plastic bags that never get punctured.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Grind them up and use them as stuffing for stuffed animals.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Twist several bags together to form a "rope" and use as a chest expander
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Have a local company that can disinfect them in mass and then distribute to local sellers of food and other products for their packaging.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Make all future bags clear plastic and clean so they can be used for food storage
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Inhale and exhale into them to build lung capacity
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Use them to take your lunch to school or work.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Stuff them in the mouths of dirty mouthed little kids instead of washing them with soap.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Create disposable gloves for doctors to use in hospitals
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Blow them up, tie them shut, then slam it between your hands to make a loud popping noise.
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Use plastic bags to make your shower cap!
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Attach little army men to them like they are parachutes and throw them from high places
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Get the space shuttle to dump bags in space
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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gotta go, have seminar. last idea, product integratable plastic bags so that a number of them can be somehow used together for more serious purpose other than shopping grocery
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Put your feet in them before putting your socks on when you go sledding - keeps your feet dry!
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Compress them into bullets for the cops to use when shooting rioters
dadeal | about 1 year ago
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Send bags beneath the earth's core so they are all melted and cannot pollute
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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To reduce...start issuing quotas on how many plastic bags a store can give out to customers.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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train the store employee how to stuff things into as few bags as possible
Daming | about 1 year ago
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print interesting news on paper bags so people wannt paper more
Daming | about 1 year ago
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create sound proof rooms with plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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print free papers, like badger herold on plastic bags, so people with take care of them
Daming | about 1 year ago
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organize clubs or organizations on campus to boost reduce plastic bags and reuse them
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Put at the bottom of lockers in lockerrooms so that the bottoms don't get sandy and salty from the shoes.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Ask art galleries to arrange exhibitions that feature exhibits made only from plastic bags. Ask all the famous artists and sculpturers to make one exhibit each.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Have special lectures or sessions in student organizations about plastic recycle
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Use to carry sweaty or wet clothes back from the gym
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Stuff in glasses when traveling so the glasses don't break
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Create an outdoor rug
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Give the country a project: collect millions of bags, melt them and use them to make a gigantic statue that celebrates the country's identity
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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People who are just watching this brainstorm and have not added any ideas are encouraged to add ideas! My idea - Ask grocery stores to compile a list of ideas that shows benefits of using paper bags instead of plastic. Put this list everywhere in your shop
shikha | about 1 year ago
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lower the quality of plastic bags to make ppl frastrated with the plastic ones and turn to paper
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Every time you take a bottle for recycling you are asked to put it in a plastic bag
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Create tents out of plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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What if we could use the plastic bags to protect the icebergs in the Arctic from melting? That would solve 2 of our problems.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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Give groups of students or engineers a plastic bag challenge, to creatively develop a way to make them useful
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Host the world's biggest plastic bag ball contest - make balls out of plastic bags...and auction them at the end for charity..
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Buy one of those cheap bag holders with holes in it from Ikea to organize your supply of bags for reuse.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Use bags to cover plants when transporting them
djeich | about 1 year ago
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sudoku on plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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add small collectors in car truncks specially for plastic bags for better bag collection
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Start getting Hip hop stars/rap artists talking singing about not wasting plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Melt bags and compress them into balls for children to play with
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Film American Beauty like clips of a bag gracefully blowing in the wind (bag as supporting actor!)
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Print games on the bags so that people will want to keep them
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Create a facebook group and create awareness to recycle plastic bage
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Print this on the plastic bag - "Please re-use me, dont throw me away when i'm still good"..or some other phrase that would urge ppl to re-use the bag.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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make high-end purses or other "bags" from the bags
katja | about 1 year ago
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Don't know if this was said yet....weave the bags into - more bags! Use them for backpacks, reuseable grocery bags, etc.
katja | about 1 year ago
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Put them over your shoes on a muddy day
Hannahphotoj | about 1 year ago
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Have the local community provide you with an eco friendly bag to bring to stores when they give you your garbage/recycling program
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Give annual tax breaks for returning plastic bags to the government
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Devise machines that super-compress thousands of bags into a tiny space
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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hold "plastic bag collection" competition, the kids who got more bags win
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Weave the bags into temporary belts that can be worn in a pinch
djeich | about 1 year ago
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enforce the adverticement of the negtive effect on the enviorment from using plastic bags and encourage ppl to use paper bags
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Use the bag as an imaginary pet
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Grocery bags that are not torn or are in decent condition could be returned to the grocery store for say 1 cent per each good bag/ store credit for a certain number of bags...its a win-win situation for both the grocery store, and the customer.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Host a bag race to raise money for the earth, people race them.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Pass a law so that when bags are purchased, a percentage of the money goes into researching how to make bags biodegradable
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Bags could be made into tires and later the tires into tires swings on playgrounds
Hannahphotoj | about 1 year ago
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use the wasted bags on the roof of the building for water proof
Daming | about 1 year ago
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Start a company that takes the old bags, weaves them into bigger new bags, and brand them for grocery stores so they can sell them to their customers.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Create a drop-box for plastic bags outside grocery stores where the bags are collected again, cleaned/sterilized and then people going into the store could take a clean bag with them when they go shopping.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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Give researchers at universities challenges on how to recycle the bags in new ways.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Find out how many bags the average person will waste in a lifetime. Create a big pile of bags and photo them to enforce the message.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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Donate the bags and receive 10 cents each time you donate
shikha | about 1 year ago
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Bags could be used in cushioins, doll/toy stuffings....
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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Compress the bags together and wind them tight to make a ball
djeich | about 1 year ago
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make the plastic bags much biger, so the number of bags needed drops and the total material needed drops
Daming | about 1 year ago
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We could collect all bags and simply give them back to the grocery store once a month.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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Turn the bags into a raincoat or poncho.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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58.
create art out of plastic bags.
nvenkate | about 1 year ago
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57.
What if you were to create matresses that were stuffed with old bags?
djeich | about 1 year ago
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56.
Show YouTube videos of what happens in the "life of a grocery bag" that raises awareness of the harm these bags cause the earth.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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55.
Create a new form of art using the different shades of plastic covering as a different color for a portrait for instance.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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54.
shred the bags and use the pieces for thermal insulation for construction or sth
Daming | about 1 year ago
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53.
Create new paintings using plastic bags of different colors.
shikha | about 1 year ago
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52.
Create a delivery truck service that delivers groceries once you are done shopping, so you don't need bags.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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51.
Give kids a one cent bounty for every littered bag they find and return.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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50.
Treat the bags so they can be used for loft insulation
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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49.
Once a shopper uses and owns a bag they are then, by law, held responsible for that bag. They have to - if necessary - bury the bags in their own garden
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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48.
set a special trash can on stress for plastic bags only
Daming | about 1 year ago
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47.
Chop up the bags to make artificial turf with them.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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46.
We could stack up plastic bags one on top of another and compress them together to create solid plastic useful for moulding furniture or other plastic objects.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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45.
If you are cooking at home put the bag on your head and use as a hairnet!
djeich | about 1 year ago
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44.
What if we used churches to spread the message that throwing away plastic bags and not re-using them was a "sin" against the world.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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43.
Give kids a bag to use as artwork canvas for an art class.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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42.
Fill empty bags with helium and let them float away - not my problem anymore!
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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41.
Make a fruitfly trap with one of the bags, put a banana in the bottom and then quickly tie the bag to trap the flies.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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40.
How about turning the bag into an interesting kite.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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39.
We could create public artwork from just used grocery bags to raise awareness about the waste.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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38.
Use bags to store things in your home
shikha | about 1 year ago
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37.
Use the bags as disposable gloves, pick up gross things around the house with them.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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36.
Convert shredded plastic into a decorative item for the outdoors, like fake grass.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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35.
invest more in research in developing biodegradable plastic for the bags
Daming | about 1 year ago
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34.
Keep a bag or two in your backpack to use to protect papers, etc. from water if it rains.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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33.
keep the bags and use it when you go grocery shopping next time
shikha | about 1 year ago
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32.
Put "dead" bags in the foundations of roads being made
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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31.
stop making the trash bags, and make all trash can to hold only shopping pags to encourage the reuse of these plastic grocery bags
Daming | about 1 year ago
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30.
Stuff bags into a pillow case to make a pillow.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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29.
Use them as re-inforcement to build water-proof walls and windows in buildings.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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28.
Put "dead" bags in the foundations of buildings being built
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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27.
Use the bag as a bicycle seat cover for when it is raining (store it under the seat).
djeich | about 1 year ago
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26.
encourage the manufacturers to make as many product as possible with easy handle features
Daming | about 1 year ago
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25.
Actually take the old bags, weave them into a bigger new bag you can bring with to the store.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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24.
Recycle your plastic bags as trash bags.
shikha | about 1 year ago
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23.
How about burning them to create foul smell that drives away mosquitoes and bugs in any outdoor park area.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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22.
give a dozen cloth bags to the store members, and set a rule that they have to use the cloth bags to get their member ship discount.
Daming | about 1 year ago
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21.
Reuse the bags as decoration for halloween...the white ones are ghosts.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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20.
We could connect many of these bags together and create a plastic rope.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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19.
Use bags (or shredded bags) to fill wall cavities - for insulation etc.
UKJohn | about 1 year ago
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18.
Do what Trader Joe's does, have a drawing if you bring in your own bag
djeich | about 1 year ago
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17.
use paper bags, of course
Daming | about 1 year ago
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16.
Create a collaboration with grocery stores to not use the bags at all.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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15.
What if we turned the plastic bags into flat sheets of thin plastic that could be used to make rain jackets or disposable umbrellas.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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14.
loan container/cart which are compatable in trunck, and cumstomer supposed to return them to store next time
Daming | about 1 year ago
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13.
Just ban the bags in local cities altogether (like SF).
djeich | about 1 year ago
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12.
offer loading service helping ppl load their stuff in the car with out the bags
Daming | about 1 year ago
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How about we shred the plastic bags into tiny pieces and use the shredded plastic as filler material for shipping and packaging.
anandvc | about 1 year ago
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OK...we will start...let your ideas rain!
djeich | about 1 year ago
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After you’ve entered as many ideas as you will, you can click the “good idea” button next to some of the best that you’d like to highlight. (on the right side)
djeich | about 1 year ago
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No idea is a bad idea here...so risk anything!
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Google for information, inspiration, or ideas.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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If you see an idea from someone else that sparks a new idea, enter it.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Get into your zone entering your own ideas, don’t worry about reading everything or duplication. Get your ideas out there.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Try to enter as many ideas separately as possible.
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Welcome to this live brainstorm! Here are a few tips and guidelines
djeich | about 1 year ago
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Put all in another big bag and use it like a sofa... the design of the big bag its another idea..!
domarquez | 8 months ago