Where can I recycle plastic grocery sacks and baggies and what happens to them?
Most local stores have bins for recycling plastic bags. These bins are lined with large plastic bags and these bags full of bags can be baled or compacted with the same equipment the stores use for their empty cardboard boxes and are worth at least as much per pound as the boxes, often to the companies that buy the cardboard. The bags may go to companies making plastic lumber or other products here in the U.S., or be exported to Asia for similar uses there.
