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At Plastic Mill, we’re passionate about developing great products that are convenient, easy-to-use, and improve your quality of life. Our products are manufactured under rigorous standards to ensure they are of premium quality, environmentally friendly, and made from FDA-approved materials. We know that the trash is one of your least favori

te things to keep busy with, so we're hard at work making sure that you can spend less time with your garbage and more time with your favorite things. While we’re researching and developing product solutions we hope you enjoy our superior, convenient, user-friendly products. We'd love to hear from you, so please drop us a line. [email protected]

02/17/2020

Yup, it’s that time of year again, winter freeze has passed, Punxsutawney Phil came out of his hole, and MLB has reported to spring training. For my husband and kids, it’s an exciting time. They have their minds on the new season and all the fun things that come along with it, like bicycle riding, shopping for new clothes, and of course seeing the cherry blossoms popup. But for moms like me there is only one thing on my mind, spring cleanup 2020.

Last year, I was fortunate to have over a cousin of mine, Libby. She is from Gibraltar and was in town for a conference on childhood behavioral and emotional disorders. Luckily, I benefited from her spring cleanup tips and tricks. Where she comes from the living quarters are quite small and in order to survive, space saving techniques and home decluttering are essential for urban life survival. Here are the top ten spring cleaning tips & tricks which I picked up from Libby that made my cleanup much easier.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 1 – Wear something that can hold your phone

Make sure you have something you can put your phone into that will allow you to pick up phone calls, play music, and texts without interrupting your cleanup. A simple waist apron with pockets would be perfect. It can hold your mobile device as you make your way through each room in your home. At the same time, waist aprons will give you some splash protection from house cleaning agents and other residue which you might encounter.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 2 – Always start from the top of the room

When you begin with the bedrooms you want to clean areas which accumulate dust that are not usually cleaned. Molding on ceilings, fan blades, and air vents pick up lots of dust throughout the year. Affix the brush tool to the vacuum hose and make sure to suck up all the dust and dander that you can see. If you don’t get everything use a good old cloth to clear off the remaining elements. Yes, they will fall onto the floor or carpet, but you will be able to clean that up when you run the vacuum or sweep the floor.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 3 – Use old socks to move heavy furniture

It’s Monday morning at 10 am and no one is home to help you move the bed to clean underneath. How in heaven are you going to move a 215-pound king bed? If you’re lucky enough to have a hard floor, take two old pairs of socks and wrap each of the socks around the bed legs. Now you will be able to maneuver the bed to be able to vacuum or sweep directly underneath the bed.

If you do live in a home where the bedrooms are carpeted, get slide glide furniture cups. These cups come in a circle or square and can be placed on pretty much any piece of furniture. Once affixed properly you will be able to push the bed with ease in order to clean properly underneath. Maybe a week before pickup the slide glide cups from the store and ask your husband to install them. And one more thing, ask him to flip the mattress. In general, a mattress should be flipped once every six months.


Spring Cleaning Tip # 4 – Microfiber car wash mitt for express dusting

Since you have many tasks ahead of you before the kids come home from school you want to make sure that you are covering everything but doing it quickly. In your local Dollar Store, you can find a microfiber car wash mitt that can be used to dust quickly and efficiently. No need for picking up or searching for a rag, just run your hand and go. You can pick up delicate décor items, dust them and set down again without any mishaps. Best of all is that this magic mitt can clean silk plants which tend to accumulate lots of dust.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 5 – Bounce® Dryer Sheets to clean baseboards

After a long winter, baseboards and floor moldings get scuffed and lose their shiny white appearance. Yes, this can happen from toys, vacuums, mops, shoes, and even food spills. This is one of my favorite hacks that not too many people know about. Take a Bounce® Dryer Sheet and rub it against those marks. You will be surprised how easily stains come off. When you come to a corner give the rubbing a bit more time to get rid of all the dirt that has accumulated there. Just keep in mind that this can’t repair any dents or scratches. For that you will need to paint it over.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 6 – Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge

Walls in the house tend to pick up strange things especially with a house full of kids. I found the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge to be extremely helpful and quite effective in removing stains and residue from the walls. Just the other day, the plug of my cordless phone charging base fell out and I had to go underneath the dinette to plug it back in. I found a whole section of the wall surrounding the outlet stained with meatball sauce. I am not sure how it got under the table, but the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge removed all the residue.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 7 – Giving unused clothing away

Yes, I know items of clothing are very sentimental (specially to grown men) but something I learned from my cousin Libby was to only keep clothing which will be used in the future. Besides, if the clothing is still in good condition why not let someone else benefit from it rather than sitting in a bin for the next century. When giving away clothing you want to have different color garbage bags so as not to confuse the contents with regular trash.

There are three categories: Clothes which have no use go into regular black trash bags. Clothes which can be worn but are no longer in style can go into a pink color garbage bag, and be dropped in the local donation box. Clothes which can be worn and are still in style can be washed and pressed and be given to family or a neighbor. The rule of thumb is, that if you won’t wear it, chances are that no one else will either.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 8 – Clean the outside of your window by squeezing the tilt latch

True, you clean the windows in your home now and then, but with spring cleaning you want to get ultimate window transparency. With most new windows you can simply squeeze the tilt latches which will give you access to the outer part of the window. Now you can remove all the dirt that has accumulated throughout the winter which enhances both the inside and outside of your home.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 9 – Decluttering and Organizing

This is by far the hardest part of spring cleaning, decluttering and organizing items lying around. If you have no use for it anymore get rid of it. Remove old books, papers, toys, cell phones, wires, flat pillows, and whatever else is taking up extra space in your home. You want to be sure that this year, the only items which remain in your home are essentials for you and your family. If you’re living in an apartment you might want to check out The Container Store to find space saving solutions. Every inch of space saved can make a big difference in keeping your home organized. There are many other benefits of keeping a clean house like, lowering stress, reducing allergies, and even lowering your weight.

Spring Cleaning Tip # 10 – Celebrate by taking out the family for dinner

You have accomplished a daunting task in cleaning up your home and making it more livable. The last thing you want to have to worry about is putting together supper for the family. Treat yourself to a neat home for the next 24 hours. Yes, the clean atmosphere might not last for long but holistically the house is fresh from top to bottom.

Final Words

Each year I find myself in the same scenario, dreading spring cleanup. However, as time goes on, I can come up with new hacks that make the cleanup easier. In fact, I get a little buzz when a room is all tidied up within twenty minutes. When the job drags out, you begin feeling tired and stressed which is quite normal. Stop and take a coffee break. If you can’t finish the house in one day, spread the tasks out over a week. Remember, slow and steady wins the race. You might want to get creative in organizing your kitchen by purchasing food storage bags & containers. This will keep your pantry looking nice and neat with stackable containers. Take the food items out of the box and place them in clear storage containers. Getting rid of the boxes will make it look neat and organized. Creativity helps move spring cleaning along without the stress. Good luck!

01/16/2020

Are you horrified by unexpected guests? Is company your greatest nightmare?

So called elegant people, some from European backgrounds, are horrified at the thought of using plastics. The one exception is plastic trash bags. This type of garbage gathering item is almost universally accepted by all types of people. Except, of course by the real conservationists, who will have contests of how little plastic and garbage they can accumulate. On YouTube, there are stories of people describing how long they can survive without using plastic. It becomes virtually impossible because even if someone can function without plastic in their own home, when they go out shopping for food and other household items, they find that mostly all of them are wrapped in plastic. Plastic is here to stay. Why can’t people just sit back and enjoy the convenience of plastic and stop complaining? These same people will not hesitate to take their gas guzzling vehicles a few blocks to the same supermarket whose products are wrapped in plastic.

The convenience of colored trash bags when confronting the experience of unexpected guests

Last week, I had about one hour to prepare for the invasion of my home by some friends from out of town. Now we love them dearly but would have liked a little more than one hour’s notice when they called and asked to come to visit. Fortunately, the weather was still mild, so we opted for a barbeque.

Let's back up a bit. Now, to tell the truth, we are not the neatest freaks around. Yet, we do have our pride and want to present ourselves and our home in the best light. Call us organized in the trash bag department, since we always have a stock of different color and strength garbage bags. We knew for sure that our friends would want a complete tour of our house, so we had one hour to tidy up. I would use the word, organize, however, that is not at all what we did. A better word would be, hide. Yes, that’s exactly what we did to every stray item in our home, thanks to our array of trusty garbage bags. Would you believe all the colors that trash bags come in? Here’s the answer you would probably give, of course, black, white and clear. Did you know that trash bags also come in such pretty colors as, green, red, yellow and pink?

These are the rooms we had to tackle. The bathrooms, kitchen, downstairs den/playroom, office, bedrooms and of course the backyard. I must say that we are fortunate to have several cooperative children and we decided to make this chore into a fun game of Beat the Clock. Whoever owned a phone, set theirs for one hour, the others used the timers in the kitchen and the alarm clocks in the bedrooms.

We assigned each room a different garbage bag color. Pink went to my only daughter’s room, blue to the two boys’ room, red was for my bedroom, green for the den, and yellow for the kitchen. The colored bags were for everything except garbage. We used the black bags for the heavier trash and the white bags for lighter weight garbage like the four bathrooms.

I gave myself the bathrooms, my husband took our bedroom, my oldest son took the kitchen ( he’s a really talented chef), my youngest son took his room that he shares with the chef and my daughter went right to begin the challenge in her room. I decided that we would work on the yard together, since all the items were garbage.

All we did was put each room’s stuff in its bag. No sorting. In the bedrooms, scattered clothes, shoes, magazines, books and anything that was around was put into its garbage back and stuffed into the closet. Wouldn’t you know, I didn't even have to say go, everyone scattered around immediately. I directed them to come to the yard as soon as each one finished their room and begin throwing lose twigs, broken toys, etc. into the black trash bags. I asked my husband to go to the supermarket to fetch the necessary, food, plastic tablecloths, and plastic eating paraphernalia as soon as he was finished with his job. The rest of us would manage nicely straightening up the yard.

Game time, the unexpected guests arrive

I would not advise this type of decluttering as a regular regiment. For outsiders visiting for the first time it worked out perfectly. Our guests arrived, as my children were still in the yard. I opened the door for our good friends, with the biggest welcome smile I could muster and led them into the dining room for some drinks and chips. Meanwhile, my husband, upon returning from the store, headed straight to the yard and set up the table with my kids. He then turned on the barbeque and began to prepare for our outdoor banquet. When I received the all clear signal from my daughter, I ushered our guests out to the yard, where they were greeted by the happy and proud faces of my collaborating gang. We knew these people from our apartment dwelling days, so our friends were excited to see us in a grassy environment.

The barbeque went off without a hitch, all the food was so fresh and so was our new clean garden. Since our backyard had never looked so uncluttered, the next Sunday, we went to the garden store to buy some new plants.

After our friends left, we decided then and there to have some new and improved organizing tactics for our home. To be truthful, going through all those colored garbage bags took hours and hours of time we really couldn’t spare. A tidy home is a gift to yourself, saving you hours of cleaning marathons and panic attacks from uninvited guests. We knew that the key to the reorganization of our home was the quality, size and different type of garbage bags to be included in our cleaning regiment from then on.

Here are a couple of organizing tips that we learned from our encounters of the uninvited kind

Since, I was the bathroom general, here are the improvements I instituted. Being that there was more than one bathroom on the upper level of our home, the most people that would be using each bathroom, would be three. My husband and I have our own and our three children share theirs. A visit to a popular department store for some new articles of organization was another fun activity for our family. The first thing I did is get rid of the large size trash cans in the bathrooms. I bought the smallest prettiest cans we could find, and the right size of clear plastic garbage bags which we lined each bathroom can. The rest of the box was placed under the sink, and now the garbage would have to be taken out every day. Who wants untidy garbage in a newly tidied bathroom? I hate to admit it, but I judge other people’s bathrooms by their trash cans. When I walk into a bathroom and the trash can is empty except for a plastic garbage bag, I am impressed with the hostess. This is quite an easy modification for a bathroom. This goes with the smart saying, tackle messes as they happen. I always keep a plastic can of Clorox disinfecting wipes under my sink and use them at least once a day for a quick and efficient neatening up.

Keeping the kitchen neat and clean

Since we all like to cook, especially my son, I wanted to make the kitchen welcoming. It’s a pleasure to cook in a clean kitchen. How could I make the kitchen cleanup situation less tedious? The first thing I did was throw out random plastic placemats and old vases that were gathering dust and not being utilized. I found some single napkins of different patterns that did not go together. These I placed in my trusty napkin holder on the kitchen counter to be used immediately and discarded forever. From then on, I would only buy large amounts of fancy napkins or just plain white ones. I like the ones that can also be used as guest towels and are pre folded already. My husband uncovered a slew of napkin rings in one out of reach cabinet; some were leftovers from some old sets which were discarded. Another set was outdated and put in a box to give to a thrift shop along with the various old vases we had accumulated.

I must say, the best part of our organization undertaking was two accomplishments, a nice amount of filled garbage bags on our curb and a couple of boxes for the thrift shop. These great feats of home management and maintenance were only successful due to the great array of trash bags that we used. I hope you have fun and beat the clock the next time you try reorganizing your home with your family. It will bring you closer and give your children pride in your home and an appreciation for orderliness.

11/05/2019

“Can I just say one word to you? Just one-word plastics''. This famous line was uttered by Walter, a good friend of the father of the graduate, a young man named Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). If you are old enough to remember the year, 1967, you surely remember the film, The Graduate. This famous line has been repeated and requoted even until today. This prophetic utterance from a fictional character described so accurately the revolution that was going on at that time in the plastic industry.

What was so important about plastics in the 1960’s?

Today, we take plastic for granted. It is used to create the most expensive items as well as the cheapest. One of the most important plastic inventions is plastic trash bags.

Originally, the plastic trash bag was created to help hospitals keep tainted germ-infested garbage away from innocent people, especially children. The “Germ Theory”, which explained the connection between germs (including those found in garbage) and disease became a fact after many experiments and experiences in the medical field. Before the development of the Polio vaccine, the plastic trash bag was a crucial tool in the prevention of Polio.

So, why is it that plastic trash bags are currently getting a bad rap?

Our environmental activist friends are so hostile to the great plastic garbage bag. Do they know or have they learned what our planet was like prior to the introduction of the plastic trash bag? Can they deny the toxic waste and disease-causing germs that were rampant in neighborhoods and towns a hundred years ago?

Environmentalists are claiming that one of the issues that upsets them specifically, is that most plastic trash bags are not biodegradable. However, in recent years, environment-friendly bags have come on the market, like the ones that are made from recycled plastic or others that are 100% compostable. Though many people malign plastic bags for facilitating environmental concerns, biodegradable trash bags are praiseworthy.

Who invented the plastic trash bag?

Harry Wasylyk, a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba is usually acknowledged as the inventor of the plastic trash bag as it is known today. Along with Larry Hansen of Lindsay, Ontario the first green polyethylene bag was produced. The first garbage bag was created in Wasylyk’s home during the 1950’s. Winnipeg General Hospital was their first customer. Union Carbide heard of this invention and started producing plastic trash bags as well. Eventually, Union Carbide bought out Wasylyk & Hansen and began making garbage bags from leftover polyethylene resin at its Montreal plant. They introduced these bags for home use under the name Glad Garbage bags, in the late 1960’s. This new creation became such a great success as it found its way into many homes and businesses.

The first trash bags were not eco-friendly. In 1971, another Canadian, a chemist from Toronto, James Guillet, developed a plastic material that decomposes in direct sunlight.

When we learn how early Americans disposed of their refuge, we will appreciate the trash bags that are available today. Early American colonists, commonly buried their trash, burned it or threw it onto the streets where garbage overflowed and was eaten by animals. Garbage rotted in ditches, attracting flies and bugs. Dirty sewage was mixed into the drinking water causing disease.

In fact, in 1834, the state of West Virginia outlawed the hunting of vultures because these birds were helpful by eating the city’s garbage. Interestingly enough, turkey vultures and black vultures were brought into the state of New Jersey, by government officials, to clean up its roads from dead deer, dead squirrels, and dead racoons. These birds do a pretty nice job getting rid of the roadkill quickly and efficiently. But back then the filth was so bad, that even the White House was infested with rats and cockroaches as were most other buildings in Washington, D.C.

Since the garbage problem was so huge, another unhealthy way of disposing garbage was introduced in New York City. The government created a special pier along the East River exclusively for throwing garbage into it. Try and imagine residents and business backing their garbage bins and emptying them out into to the water. Besides for the awful smell that it caused, debris began to fill the bottom of the river. Over many years this solution deemed to be an environmental disaster.

Here are some comments from people who remember the pre plastic garbage bag times.

“By pickup day, everyone’s cans smelled so badly that the odor could be detected from far away.”

“You had to wash out your kitchen trash cans and disinfect them quite often to prevent terrible odors.”

New Yorkers have come a long way from the past. Today, a private group is working very hard on the river’s cleanup by bringing an awareness through adding a water-filtering floating pool in the East River. The color or the outer rim of the pool change, depending on the water quality. Besides for benefiting the local environment, it functions as a live water quality analysis which tells locals when the water is suitable for swimming in the East River. Pathogens, temperature, clarity salinity, oxygen, pH, flow direction, flow speed, and tide are the some of elements which are measured and displayed on the live dashboard.

In past times, many towns would bring their trash to the “town dump”. This was an outdoor dump located away from the rivers and water sources. In 1934, the first American landfill was opened in Fresno, California, modeled after the concept of a “sanitary landfill” that was born in England. They would alternate layers of waste and soil, to reduce bad smells and fires. The immediate threat of disease was still rampant, and the world was desperate for a new approach to the garbage crisis.

Now let's close our eyes and try to imagine the world in the 1950’s without plastic trash bags. Yes, there were the metal garbage cans that are still used today. Without plastic bags to put the garbage into, the metal cans became smelly and messy. Even if paper bags were used for the garbage, they almost immediately would become wet and sloppy. This is without rain. If it did rain, then not only would the paper bags disintegrate but the garbage as well and it became difficult for the garbage men to remove the messy garbage from the can.

Without proper plastic waste bags what happened with infectious waste?

Forget about the problem of at home trash and debris, what did hospitals and doctors do with medical waste? Perhaps a household member was sick, and a local physician paid a house visit. Often a wound bandage needed to be replaced and the old cloth was removed and thrown into the nearest waste basket. If we were to analyze this piece of medical waste, we might find bloodborne pathogens and other infectious material. This made it very difficult to contain the spread of disease. Epidemics were much harder to contain primarily due to the poor handling of infectious waste. Today, there is a government agency called OSHA, which oversees that all environments are safe for patients and it’s worker. Businesses who are not compliant with current laws can be shut down or issued hefty fines.

Let’s learn about how plastic trash bags are created

In the year 1942, low density polyethylene was developed. Soft and waterproof, these originate from little resin beads. These tough resin beads become bags of plastic. Hard pellets of polyethylene are heated to a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius. The molten polyethylene is put under high pressure and mixed with other ingredients to provide color and make the plastic moldable. Once this plastic mixture is cooled, it is cut into appropriate individual length and sealed on one end to make the garbage bag. Then, static electricity infuses these bags so they can be folded on top of each other. They are either cut or perforated at the correct length and sealed on one side. They are now ready to be packaged.

Now all you environmentalist read this carefully. Is it not true that the invention of the plastic trash bag has reduced serious and fatal diseases?

Is it not true that homes, hospitals and offices are less infested with rodents and bugs?
Why would you want to percolate serious illnesses when we now are producing biodegradable bags?
Since the invention of the trash bag, we no longer need to live with the smell and volume of garbage. It is a rare sight today to see animals eating garbage in the streets. Yes, it does sometimes happen when a garbage can without the bag tied correctly gets turned over. Let's remember how the world looked before the introduction of the plastic trash bag. Vultures, hogs and smelly metal garbage pails are symbols of the past. Please don’t pass up this modern convenience that can and will prevent your loved ones from getting sick. Be thankful that we are slowly learning how to cope with the increased garbage production. No longer must we contend with people throwing garbage on the streets or in the rivers. Ask anyone who lived in those times, for sure they would bless this great invention.

Last week a good friend of mine, Tim, gave me a tour of his warehouse. His company manufactures various types of contain...
08/30/2019

Last week a good friend of mine, Tim, gave me a tour of his warehouse. His company manufactures various types of containers for household cleaning supplies. Tim was complaining about the accumulating garbage by the shipping station and the stuffing paper that was scattered all over the place. It seemed to be really bothering Tim and was slowing down order fulfillment. I mentioned to him about getting the right size gallon trash bag to maximize the capacity that the trash receptacle can hold. Since he was already upset with the mess in the warehouse, his response was rather intense. “Do you know how many of those 55-gallon garbage bags I ordered? About a thousand, and now I am out of them and using these flimsy bags I picked up from the store next door”. At that point I tried moving off the topic and asked him what he thought about going out for lunch.

Phantom garbage bags, true or not true?
When you purchase a case of garbage bags and the box says a thousand count, are there really a thousand bags inside? The fact that the bag thickness says two millimeters, is it really two millimeters thick? If the trash bag dimensions say sixty-seven by seventy-nine inches are those the real dimensions? All these are legitimate questions that a garbage bag owner can ask.



The truth is that no one is counting, measuring, or weighing the garbage bags which they purchase in bulk. Who is interested in messing up the neatly stacked bags? It might not be a bad idea to measure the dimensions or weigh the thickness since you only need to do that with one bag. But in general, I can’t imagine someone making sure that they are not getting skimped on the count of garbage bags.

Manufacturers of heavy-duty trash bags tend to know the truth that people are not going to count the number of bags and complete the count with “phantom garbage bags”. Yes, that’s the truth! The actual trash bag count can be well short of what it says on the outside of the box. Many popular household brands know that no one is weighing the trash bag thickness and they take advantage of that as well.

How should one know if they are getting the right trash bag count in the case?
Let’s put you in the shoes of the ones who are making these trash bags. At the end of the production line, these bags are piled and automatically placed in the case. This is all happening quickly as is for all plastic production lines. The objective of these production lines is to produce the max amount of cases in the shortest amount of time. These get stacked on a pallet and then placed on a truck and shipped out of the warehouse to the supplier. An honest garbage bag manufacturer hires a quality control manager who takes samples throughout the production and inspects them for the goal count, weight, and dimensions. Unfortunately, most brands don’t do this, and no one ever knows how many bags are in the box.

There is one area which they cannot get around and that is the physical weight of the box. Whatever weight is listed on the outside of the box is what it should weigh. If it matches then you know that you should have the correct number of bags inside the box and were not deceived about the thickness as advertised on the outside of the box. If you're off by one pound or higher, it must mean that you’ve got some of those “phantom garbage bags” in that case.

The coreless garbage roll advantage
Did you ever wonder why there is a cardboard tube in the center of a toilet paper roll? “Of course, it allows the toilet paper manufacturer to roll up the paper on the roll”. You just might be giving these big bathroom brands a bit more than the benefit of the doubt. Chances are that they are giving you less toilet paper sheets when they stick the cardboard roll in the middle while keeping the same big shape and puffiness. It’s the same thing when it comes to purchasing wholesale garbage bags by the roll. If there is a cardboard tube in the center of the roll you're missing out on some trash bags. In fact, you can miss out on approximately an extra ten to fifteen trash bags.

As a heavy-duty garbage bag consumer, you got to go with the coreless trash bags to make sure that you get the maximum number of bags in a case. Let’s take a large fulfilment center that ships tens of thousands of corrugated boxes daily. Such a facility can produce tons of waste and go through hundreds or garbage bags daily to gather all the rubbish that it takes to pack those boxes. Coreless garbage bag rolls will make an economical difference and provide your company with significant cash savings in your annual budget.

The garbage bag challenge
Getting the right garbage bag size does not sound difficult, but this point is often overlooked when purchasing trash bags. In fact, most people think it’s simple. Whatever gallon size is your trash bin, that’s what size trash bag you should get. So why is it that most of our garbage bags keep on falling into the bin and how do we keep those bags secure in order to use the optimal container space?

How to keep large garbage bags from falling in
Let’s discuss warehouses and large facilities that are using a Rubbermaid® Brute® 32-gallon trash bin. It’s highly likely that right after one of the workers place the trash bag in the container, someone will throw something heavy into the bin, “There it goes, gone! the garbage bag has just become another piece of trash resting at the bottom of the can”. The simple solution would be to strap a jumbo rubber band around the lip of the trash bin which will hold the bag in place. If you are anticipating heavier garbage, than try using two or more rubber bands. Best part of this technique is that when the can is full, one can use these bands to tie the top of the bag instead of having a wrestling match with the bag. I have had a few of these fights myself when trying to dispose of an above ground pool cover in a heavy-duty contractor garbage bag. The only way I was able to tie the bag was by jumping on it and stretching out the two flaps atop the bag. One can avoid the garbage bag showdown by using strong rubber bands to securely close the trash bag.

How to keep tall kitchen trash bags from caving in
The good thing about tall kitchen trash bags is that they are thin enough and you don’t have to fight when closing them. The thickness averages around .72 millimeters which makes it easy to make a knot at the side of the trash bin giving it a snug fit which will keep it from falling in. For those who simply don’t have the time or can’t seem to get the right fit, there is a new item called the Trash Bag Cinch. It is a hook which comes with an adhesive tape strip and mounts to the outside of your kitchen container. Simply grab the extra amount of garbage bag with your fist and hook it around the cinch. Make sure that you are not using a double top mount pull out trash can, because placing the cinch on the outside will interfere when placing the bin back in the cabinet base.
How to keep those 95-gallon outdoor trash liners from caving in
Those like me, who live in suburban neighborhoods, wheel out a large 95-gallon outdoor trash can for scheduled garbage pickup. Keeping these big boys clean can be quite a challenge, especially when it comes to the summertime. These trash bins stink to high heaven and are often full of maggots. A trash liner can be a real good solution for helping you keep it clean and odor free. Assuming you are using a 95-gallon trash liner, you are faced with the challenge of really heavy trash making that bag cave in. Here is what you need to do to keep it from falling in.

Extend it a little more than a foot around the bust of the top front of the can and wrap it real tight. Now you should feel the tension when your pulling the bag to the back lip of top of the bin. Every scenario is different, but the tension should be efficient enough from keeping the bag from falling in when placing smaller trash bag within the bin. If you feel that the bag around the top back of the bin is too loose, use a jumbo rubber band to secure. The night before garbage pickup, close the trash bag and you will have a clean trash can the next day.

Keeping the garbage bag in the can be quite a challenge, but all it takes is a little exploration as to what will keep it secure when the first few pieces of trash fall inside. You might find something in your local hardware store which might work better than the ideas we mentioned above. All it takes is a few minutes and some product testing as to what works best and keeps your trash bags from caving in. Hey you never know, maybe you can become a billionaire on garbage just like Wayne Huizenga did with his company, Waste Management. Good luck!

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