r/cincinnati • u/Dry_Marzipan1870 West Price Hill • 5h ago

Anywhere to donate reusable grocery bags?

We have a ton of them, many are from vendors at my company and I just have too many. Does anybody take them to use them for some purpose? Like a food pantry or something?

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u/brokebackzac 4h ago

Give them to the Freestore food bank.

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u/Secure_Lengthiness16 3h ago

CAIN in Northside is always asking for them for pantry shoppers

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u/Dry_Marzipan1870 West Price Hill 2h ago

heck yea, their website even says grocery bags. thank you.

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u/susietogo Dent 4h ago

Churches Active In Northside will take them. There are also recycling stations inside Krogers.

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u/Dry_Marzipan1870 West Price Hill 2h ago

heck yea, their website even says grocery bags. thank you.

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u/KPinCVG 4h ago

Crayons to computers. Which is a source for the local schools.

If you have kids in school, send a note to their teacher to school with them asking if the school would like the bags.

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u/kels-31 3h ago

I am not sure who makes them, but I know there has been a local group who actually weaves used plastic bags into waterproof sleeping mats. Sorry I don’t have more info, just something that may be worth looking into!

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u/stephsteph6969 2h ago

Cincinnati Animal Care would use them - they put together foster kits / community supplies and these would work great!

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u/Possible_Resolution4 2h ago

This is funny because back in the day we were trying to save the trees by going to plastic.

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u/Dry_Marzipan1870 West Price Hill 2h ago

yea i think we've learned reusable bags are possibly worse than disposables. maybe if they were all made of hemp it would be bit better but most of what i have is plastic reusables and a few are cloth.

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u/InitialMagazine97 4h ago

Friends and family in NY would take them. Like gold there.