Glad Forceflex Lawn Drawstring Trash Bags, 39 Gallon, 15-Count Boxes (Pack of 6) Review

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(More customer reviews)Glad brand Drawstring ForceFlex® Lawn & Leaf 39 Gallon
do the job (without failure) on the streetcorner litter baskets
here in NYC. The wire-mesh metal curbside trash receptacles
(made by female State convicts in Albion Correctional Facility)
are prone to tear or snag ordinary trash bags. The City of NY
does provide durable green plastic liners to volunteers who
opt to adopt a streetcorner litter basket. The Sanitation Dept
liners DO-NOT have a drawstring closure, don't expand (they're
welded with a flat bottom seam; no star-shaped bottom seam), &
they are possibly coated with lead (greasy feeling to exterior).
The Forceflex yard bag (black in color, generous red drawstring)
does a BETTER job in surviving a hostile trash can (the City's)
and being sturdy enough to "hold everything" while being pulled
vertically out of the wire basket until it's plopped onto the
sidewalk for final tying-down (with the built-in drawstrings).
Since I have not had the need to lower the trash canister down
SIDEWAYS (parallel with the ground, horizontally) in order to
withdraw the liner bag) I cannot report as to whether there is
a problem doing that. I would think not; however, the thickness
of the ForceFlex lawn bag is NOT going to let you DRAG the full
bag across rough sidewalk concrete without failing/spilling the
guts. The unusually mil thickness of the CITY bags allows you
to abuse them by lazily dragging them for medium distances; I
guess the NYC Department of Sanitation assumed that there are
people who will push their luck to extremes, and specified a
bag that could take ABUSE. The ForceFlex is NOT >thick< enough
to withstand extended DRAGGING (except maybe on a soft lawn); I
value the ForceFlex over Hefty or other outdoor trash bags NOT
because of their thickness but because of their resilience and
puncture-resistant characteristic. When you're dealing with a
"cargo" of MYSTERY trash, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Mystery trash is
- deposited haphazardly by random strangers or piggy tenants
- anything that doesn't belong in Paper or Commingled Recycle
- handled by the super or volunteer in early morning darkness
- capable of including used razor blades, batteries, bottles.
One can anticipate a sorry ending by donning non-vinyl gloves
(the single-use ones leak immediately) + sacrifice shoes, but
'tis better to DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME: splurge on Glad's
ForceFlex 39-gallon drawstring bags before the swine do their
thing. Otherwise, you'll sometimes have to UNDO the mistake &
do the job right after all. That comes to triple work:
- wrong way the first time
- "undo" damage-control afterwards
- REdepositing the raw trash into a fresh proper bag.
One comment: in case you delegate the actual light work of
lining the can with a ForceFlex to an individual (who later
WON'T be the one who actually pulls the full bag out), there
is a good probability that s/he WON'T take adequate pains to
make SURE that the empty Forceflex bag is installed securely
(in such a way that the first salvo of raw trash won't make
the liner's rim sag to the bottom of the can). Human nature.
Last thought: in those communities where containers can be
redeemed for nickel or dime deposits, SEPARATE the obvious
5&10-cent bounty items into a dedicated tub/can; this way,
there is less likelihood that the ForceFlex or Hefty bag will
be given multiple c-sections before dawn. Feedback welcome.

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