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AP guide: donate excess reusable bags to food banks and thrift stores

Home organizers and sustainability experts offer strategies for decluttering kitchen cupboards packed with accumulated totes.

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What to know

  • Reusable bags accumulate easily from store giveaways and events, but the environmental impact of oversupply is minimal.
  • Environmental benefit depends on actual use: thicker, durable bags require many reuses to offset their production cost.
  • Experts recommend donating excess bags to food banks and thrift stores, and assigning specific purposes to the bags kept.

“They just are sneaky. I purchased a handful of these and then somehow I've collected ones I've never purchased, and I don't really know where they've come from.”

Britnee Tanner, Professional home organizer · Philadelphia Inquirer / Associated Press ↗

Britnee Tanner Professional home organizerShelie Miller Sustainability scientist, University of MichiganKimberly Oremus Environmental economist

AP guide: donate excess reusable bags to food banks and thrift stores
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    Multiple news outlets republish the AP reusable bag guide

    Mercury News, Baltimore Sun, and Orlando Sentinel distribute the same Associated Press article about managing reusable bag accumulation, expanding the story's reach across regional publications.

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    AP publishes guide to donating excess reusable bags

    Associated Press releases article advising people to donate accumulated reusable bags to food banks and thrift stores rather than storing them. The piece quotes professional home organizer Britnee Tanner and sustainability experts on strategies for managing bag overflow.

    “You don't want an entire closet of reusable bags. You want well-loved reusable items, and that's really what gives the environmental benefit.”
    — Shelie Miller

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  1. 5 outlets There’s an easy way to get rid of all the reusable bags piling up in your home

    first by Orlando Sentinel, 2d ago · also Baltimore Sun, Mercury News, CTV News, Philadelphia Inquirer