The capacity of my kitchen garbage can is 3.2 gallons, but I usually buy ordinary 4-gallon trash bags for it. And I resent having to buy them; I used to use the free plastic grocery bags before they were banned.
It takes me a few days to fill it, too.
Yet when I go shopping for them, I find mostly 13-gallon bags. There are bags from Glad and Hefty along with the store brand. You can choose bags with drawstring closure, wire twist or hand tie. The boxes have various quantities.
But that’s not all. Now garbage bags can be found in a variety of scents, such as Lavender, Fresh, Hawaiian, Ocean, Vanilla, Lemon, Cherry Blossom, Mountain Air, Eucalyptus & Peppermint and more. Sometimes you can even find unscented bags if you have the patience to look long enough.
What are people throwing away that they need a 13-gallon bag? It would take me a couple of weeks to fill a garbage with that much capacity. At full capacity it would be difficult to lift. And even with a cover, the stink would be horrendous, regardless of what scent the bag is.
And why do we need scented bags? When new, their smell is off-putting. When full, they do nothing to alter the smell of what’s in the bag.
So let’s have only unscented bags. It will leave more room on store shelves for other size bags or other products. If people want to make their garbage scented, they can spray their favorite room freshener into it.
