To the people who refuse plastic bags at the grocery store: what do you put your garbage out in?

Garbage bags that we buy in the store. They have to be different colors anyway for recycling purposes and we have much bigger garbage cans – those small plastic bags are useless.

Well, my mom often refuses plastic bags at the store (and paper; she brings her own bags). In our house, we have numerous smaller garbage cans around, but we don’t put bags in them. No food or wet items ever go in them, so it’s fine to reuse them without putting bags in them. The ones that do have bags (kitchen garbage, etc.) have regular large designed-for-trash bags in them, so there’s no need for grocery shopping bags.

I don’t refuse them, but I don’t use them as trash bags because they are so structurally weak and full of holes.

I take them to the dog park and the dog owners use them to pick up dog poop.

I use plastic that way I can get it all in the house one trip. :) You have exactly 666 points. Spooky.

I use 55-gallon trash bags to take my garbage out in. One of them lasts about a week in my home. We definitely generate a higher volume of recycling to take out than garbage.

Same routine as @Mamradpivo , except I can get by on 33.

I take my own bags to the supermarkets. We have different bins picked up by different trucks here in New Zealand. I put paper out in boxes (they are picked up by a paper truck), the rubbish bag (Large) is picked up by another truck, and the council supplies everyones with a huge green bin, for glass, plastic and that is picked up by another truck. It is all recycled. The paper is used again, glass is crushed and used again and the plastic in Dunedin is being shredded, washed then made into indestructable bricks to makes houses, walls for flooding and can be plastered over. I home that becomes universal, as it would make great housing for developing countries.

I get paper and use them as garbage cans. I didnt have a can because my dog would knock them over. Plastic takes so long to biodegrade, maybe 100 years. Recycling is so much better, if you return them or bring your own grocery bags.

Plastic is for dog and cat poo.

I re-use the plastic bags that i get in the supermarket to put the rubbish/garbage out in.

@ftp901 I like this question.
To reduce the environmental burden some people refuse to take the plastic bags from the store and then buy brand new plastic bags at the same store. That defeats the purpose.
I reuse them for everything. We don’t have a garbage disposal and keep a holder on the kitchen counter for food waste. I either use a half gallon milk carton or the plastic bags in that. When it is full, it goes into the dumpster for our weekly trash pickup.
When our plastic bag collection starts getting to large we take out own bags tot he store a couple of times and that reduces the pile.
I also ask for paper about ¼ of the time. In the winter all burnable mail goes in those and I convert them to heat in my woodburning stove.
Reuse is the best recycling.

I use a couple of cloth bags for when I go to the grocery store. If addl. bags are needed, then the plastic ones are used. The grocery store has a recycling center for them, so it’s just a matter of taking them back on the next trip.

In the kitchen, I keep an empty juice carton on the counter for things like tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells and bones.