9 Ways to ReUse a Paper Grocery Bag:
1. Cover your text books with a paper bag 
2. Reuse it as wrapping paper or as a gift bag 
3. Turn an old paper bag into a kite
4. Paper bags are very useful for cleaning out trash in your car, dumping out cat litter, and for cleaning up after your dog or pet
5. Arts and Crafts projects: placemats; costumes and masks, cutting out stencils, coloring and painting, party hats, etc… 
6. Create a wonderful scrapbook out of used paper bags 
7. Reuse it to write your everyday lists on
8. Decorate your house with luminaries from used paper bags 
9. Cut the paper bags to design envelopes, greeting cards, tags, and/or stationary 
Benefits of Reusing Paper Bags:
- The paper industry is the 4th largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions among United States manufacturing industries, and contributes 9% of the manufacturing sector’s carbon emissions.
- Paper accounts for 25% of landfill waste (and one third of municipal landfill waste).
- If you can use a paper bag several times before you recycle it, then you’ve extended that use and have hopefully prevented more trees from being felled or at least preserved some energy that would have been used in the manufacture and shipping of the items that the paper bags replace.
