What about the grocery bags that had meat in them? Even though the meat's wrapped in plastic, I'm sure that plastic gets handled by butchers with salmonella and other nasty bacteria all over their hands/gloves.

This is why I use grocery bags for one thing only: to pick up my labrador retriever's turds.

moosetoga

Garbage bag + grocery bags = Makeshift beanbag chair!

nemesiscw

I want that flamingo...it would match the pink neon one in the bathroom perfectly!

ry_ry

@FubarGuy: Don't forget dog poop too! Multiple "leavings" with multiple walkings. I rip my bags in half though. That way the excreta has a chance to degrade. Any my dog eats fish and potato based food, so it's not super difficult to degrade.

qbrad

@aec007: true - it's because they line the fill with plastic (and other plastic that's in there) and air can't access it to decompose. Yes, recycle paper - much easier than recycling plastic!

zarchitect

@FubarGuy: I use the plastic litter-container until it's full - then dump in paper bag on trash day. Just one paper bag for about 2 weeks worth of poop. Plastic bags are absolutely not necessary - just another form of excess for convenience-sake.

zarchitect

"Plastic grocery bags are a blight on the environment, given out by the millions and clogging up landfills"
NOPE !

I once saw a Discovery program when a scientist (self called "garbologist"...funny!) dug a huge 6'x 6'x 20' deep hole in a typical city dump. Deep items were dated at several decades old.

The findings:

90 ~ 95% of the dump was actually paper (newspapers, flyers, letters, mail, etc...)
Very little (~3%) was plastic bags, styrofoam cups, diapers, food and what ever...
NONE of it decomposed.
He showed rolled up newspapers from 1940's that looked like fresh prints...
(due to the lack of air and no light)
Next to the newspaper, He grabbed a paper plate (like new) with some old taquitos, salsa and guacamole, (brown on the surface but fress green inside but the salsa dried up)
He took the guacamole (green sample) to the lab to confirm there was no bacteria, decay or virii. So it was good to eat as if it was made yesterday.

In short.

Landfills DO NOT DECAY. Plastics are not the problem.
Recycle your paper and landfills will last for 100's of years without filling up.
Guacamole lasts for ever....

aec007

@Curves: takes energy to do that - if there's an alternate use for them, that should be looked at first.

zarchitect

Plastic grocery bags are a necessity - they contain the huge volumes of cat poop that are heaped upon our household's litter boxes daily. I guess I could build a trebuchet & just start flinging it over the neighbor's house as an alternative.

FubarGuy

@rexplex:
2000 bags is not that much, 5 a week is a small number.
I go shopping and bring home at least 5 bags a week, but this can flux upwards of 20 bags in a week. Not to mention you don't have to use ONLY grocery bags. Considering it takes 2000 grocery bags, which are by their design much less dense than say a plastic bag from a clothing retailer or electronics store...

pixelfish

Is this considered a gadget? Slow news day, Giz?

ferment78

Or just recycle them?

Curves

"Thanks, but I'll just keep polluting the environment for that price."

Great - glad to see sound reasoning around here... Why not just go to the store where you can drop these off and have a chair in an instant from all the returns? Way to think individual and small and promote it!

zarchitect

@rexplex:
Maybe you could fill it with, like "the road to Hell is paved with...",
good intentions !

ANoel

2000 shopping bags > shaped bag > $150 seat

So you have to spend money and save the bags as you shop in order to fill the seat. In other words, it's a $150 + expenses.

Why not, put those shopping bags inside a laundry bag and make yourself a bean bag type bag? Much cheaper.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

2,000 plastic bags.
let's say 5 per week.
400 weeks (7.7 years) to stuff this thing.
So basically you have a shapless mass in the middle of your livving room that gets a bit bigger every week, until it finally reveals itself as a bean bag chair?
No thanks.

rexplex

@thechansen:

Yeah, I think there are plenty of DIY beanbag-style furniture kits out there.

Why not save the plastic bags yourself? I know we've got a few dozen at least in the bottom drawer of the pantry...

hoserelder

I don't think making your own chair shaped bag would be that hard to do, and you could probably easily do it for 1/10 the cost.

Jason

unless you are the type to breathe using only your mouth, any body could make this for a fraction of the cost. But if this jackass can make money off what should be an instructable at most, power to him.

thechansen

How much for the palm tree? Nothing screams "I'm a classy Miami Socialite" like an inflatable palm tree!

Darrone

LOL....

interesting. but not worth teh $150, indeed!

striggity

plastic grocery bags are the ideal cat poop disposal vehicle.

matto

150 bucks for a piece of cloth which requires years worth of shopping bags and will probably end up not being too confortable? What? Is it Armani, Prada or something like that? Or the guy who's selling it is just plain stupid?

No thanks. I'll just keep my 150 bucks and buy myself something more confortable.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi