Don’t throw those dry-cleaning bags away…without filling them first

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As a landscape designer and author specializing in sustainability, Cherie Foster Colburn of The Woodlands, Texas, cringes when she receives her dry cleaning in plastic bags. Then she realized they’re the perfect size to serve as liners for her kitchen trash can. “A knot in the top end closes the small hole where the hangers came through,” she wrote.

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  • Mary from Maryland

    Hmmm. You get partial credit for repurposing the plastic, definitely, but haven’t drycleaning chemicals themselves raised a lot of controversy in the last decade or so?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PLNPWHGERPE57KQD2AF7VV5RWI cherie

      Mary, I use a certified “GREEN” dry cleaners.  Unfortunately I’ve not found any other way to keep suits looking good.  Do you have another solution?   I’m certainly up for another solution to that problem!

  • KatemarT

    Our dry cleaning bags are not strong enough to hold garbage!

  • The DealMaster

    I do exactly the same with mine when I HAVE to use the dry cleaners.