1. Line Your Trash Bin. One of the easiest and (most useful) ways to reuse plastic grocery bags is to line your trash cans with them. While they won't fit large trash cans in the kitchen or garage ...

Give single-use plastic bags a second life as packing material. Use this hack to transform them into packing bubbles, so you can save money and save them from the trash.

California’s 2014 bag ban law focused on grocery stores, which can no longer give you one of those thin plastic bags. But they can sell you a heftier sack made of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.

While that may be an annoyance if you want to use grocery-store bags, if you’re concerned about the aesthetics of your trash can being just so, you might love the Simplehuman setup.