I have an eco-dilemma: I don't know what to do with empty bread/bagel bags. The internet says I should pack lunches, use for homemade bread, put shoes and soiled laundry in while travelling, pipe icing, and crochet.

Guess what stuff I don't do.

Rinse & recycle at the local grocery store?

I don't really go out much, but I guess I can try saving them up...?

They make excellent microplastics if you let them abrade down a while.

Max Graf : [razzberry]

I put them in our recycling bag for plastic. I only save a few. I’ve used them to store leftovers in.

Curbside recycling doesn't accept bags, they all have to be dropped at the grocery store here too.

I keep all bags that don't have holes in them (celery bags have holes). Since we only have our garbage taken away one day a month, stuff can get really ripe. I throw potentially stinky kitchen scraps in a bag and tie it off before throwing it in the trash.

Oh, and I don't have a garbage disposal either, so for me this really helps.

Move back to Florida? Publix have recycling fur plastic bags (and paper and foam trays).
Walmart here has recyc fur plastic - but the picture on their tub only shows plastic bottles.
BestBuy does batteries and electronic stuff.

BITE YOUR TONGUE, MISTER SQUEAK!

Why? That hurts.

We enjoy having her in the vicinity!

You wanna send me back to Florida?!?

My Mammaw used to save bread bags. They had 2 uses in my grandparents' house: cut up for spacers for freezing burger patties; and Pappaw used them to bring home field dressed rabbits when he went hunting.

They had an abundance of bread bags because of the sandwich counter in their little grocery.

When I was a wee possum we used bread bags as liners in our leaky buckle boots. Now they are used for garden harvests.