Originally published at: How to fold a plastic shopping bag the right way | Boing Boing
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I bet he knows how to fold a fitted sheet too.
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Excellent—instead of a suffocation hazard you get a choking hazard!
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Neatly wrapped crack baggies.
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That makes it even worse for the dolphins, so no.
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It’s actually faster than I expected it to be (except that last fiddly tie). I had to try it, but I don’t know that I’ll keep that going. We use bags for trash can liners, so they go out quickly too.
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Yeah, it’s cute and tickles my fancy the same way Marie Kondo does for tidying up, but I just shove them in an upright empty paper towel roll beside the recycling bin and pull them out as needed. Quicker, and still feels kind of “organized.”
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this is the “right” way? so i’ve been wrong to fold them in triangles (with a simple tuck at the end rather than a knot) all these years?
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Don’t quote me but I think grocery store-style bags are high-density PE, whereas the softer, thicker kind from clothing stores etc. are LDPE. Or maybe the upmarket bags just have extra plasticizers or something.
Anyway the upshot is the flimsy bags don’t melt good, but the premium bags are a thrilling boon for the home melter (and tend to come in exciting colors).
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iron them (under a sheet of foil) onto wood and other surfaces!
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fuse several layers around a glass mixing bowl using an iron or heat gun to make a sturdy and stylish fruit bowl!
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shred them up and just plain melt them in the oven to form alluring marbled objets! (Ideally you make silicone molds for this)
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you can also braid plastic bags together into rope
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Might be good to pop a couple of these in my backpack; otherwise, I agree with everyone else here.
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You can iron a few layers of them between sheets of wax paper into tarps
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the mum used to warp her floor loom with monofilament fishing line and tightly weave plastic shopping bags into a “fabric” that she then turned into jackets that were amazingly water resistant and colorful!
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We basically no longer have plastic bags in much of the portland area, so , it’s paper or reusables around here. Paper bags are charged .05 a bag, too. I’ve found, honestly, the plastic bags he was saving can’t be reused more than a few times, and paper bags more than that. But obviously cloth are the winners.
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