You can help save wild birds and animals: When unwrapping bread, groceries etc., I roll up the plastic wrapping or bags that I can't reuse and then tie them in knots before binning them. This prevents animals and birds getting their heads stuck in them or, just as bad, getting them stuck in their throats while trying to eat any food still adhering to them.
We can recycle them here at the groceries. I stuff many bags into one bag and then tie it off.
A problem also exists with those nasty "six-pack" plastic things that keep six-packs of soda or other bottles or cans together (sometimes in fours or eights). I always cut them so that there are no circles of any kind left to ensnare wildlife of any size.
You can also use those plastic bags to make leashes, etc. There's a great explanation of how to do this on youtube. Also, you can make "plarn, or plastic yarn, from these bags and crochet with them. They make wonderful rugs or shopping bags, etc.
Kudos to you for thinking of the animals that these bags harm.
I dry out the bag and roll it up [jelllyroll style] as tightly as I can, then stuff it in a large plastic bottle for the rubbish collection. This way, no animals can get at them, they are contained, so can't blow away if windy, and the wonderful rubbish collection people don't get whatever was in the bags on them.
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