It turns out that Ziplocs and all plastic sandwich bags can be dropped off at any bin that takes plastic grocery bags.

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Although reusable sandwich and snack bags are becoming more popular, there are still millions of American households that are sticking to their favorite favorite plastic sandwich bags.

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Passengers notice it far less if an airline switches a sandwich for a packet of biscuits and a plastic cup of coffee, he says.

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Nonetheless, the man on the 9.30 from Stansted to Palma, crushed in a middle seat between crying children and with a home-made sandwich as his sustenance, should raise a plastic cup to freedom and to Freddie.

ECONOMIST: Freddie Laker

Now that I saw the reality of his life, the plastic bags full of free samples, the half-eaten sandwich balanced on a teetering stack of magazines, I knew that any confrontation would be absurd.

NEWYORKER: Raj, Bohemian