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How many of y’all have noticed all the plastic bags stuck to cactuses on I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix? I love Arizona, and I love driving through the desert, but that stretch of road might just be the ugliest spot on I-10. I had a friend in Arizona scoffingly tell me that a discarded plastic shopping bag stuck to a saguaro cactus ought to be the Arizona State Flag because there are so darn many of them out there. So what can we do to help eliminate what has become one of the biggest blights on the landscape?
Some towns like Austin, TX have a instituted a total ban on plastic shopping bags, but that doesn’t really solve the problem of these super handy, super cheap, and super proliferated little eyesores. So today I thought we could talk about some ways to repurpose or upcycle those pesky shopping bags and prevent them from blowing across the parking lot or highway like the modern day tumbleweed.
One of the most obvious uses for these little Shopping bags is as a trash can liner for your smaller trash cans around the RV, but you can also uses them as a mitt when you’re cleaning or polishing your furniture to keep your hands clean and have a better sense of touch than you would have with those thick rubber kitchen gloves. You can tie them around your knees and use them to keep your pants clean when you have to crawl under the RV for any reason.Another awesome use they have it to help keep ice off your mirrors if you’re expecting that good old freezing rain we have here inTexas during the wintertime. Just tie one of those bags around each mirror and when you wake up in the morning, it’ll take less time to get out of the driveway. What do you use these bags for when they’re not toting groceries? Drop us a line in the comment section below and tell us about it! And remember, come say howdy to us at the website for all your parts and accessories!