I'm curious as to how you've gone garbage bag free. When we lived in NJ, our county has very strict recycling laws and we had to sort all of our trash, but we had no option to not use garbage bags for our regular trash. What do you do?

I've used canvas bags for food shopping for years. (In most of Asia, they won't give you bags anyway.) I like to do the 'naked lettuce' thing, but I also bought small mesh bags to use for fruit and other things that you buy multiples of. Then I just wash them and take them back to the store.