Re those evil plastic bags. Like everyone ('cept those who toss them in the first place), we hate seeing those damned things all over the place. And since more and more stores are talking about charging you for plastic, we have purchased a bunch of those reusable shopping bags. But, we used the plastic bags for our household garbage. No free plastic shopping bags, we will have to buy those rolls of plastic trash bags to use, since our trash still has to get from the home on wheels to the dumpster. Plastic still goes into the landfill, we just have to buy the bags instead of the stores giving them to us (and undoubtedly passing that cost on to us)...