How Do You Wash A Freezer Bag For Reuse?
Reduce, reuse, recycle. No doubt about it, recycling is all the rage. We treat “reduce, reuse, recycle” as the new “in” thing to do, but the truth is recycling is and always has been a way of life in most other countries around the world, mostly out of economic need. Even when the economy was abundant, it still made sense to wash and reuse freezer bags. Now that money is tight, there are even more reasons. They are so strong and useful it is a travesty to toss them away after just one use. Fill the bag 1/3 to 1/2 full of warm water. Squeeze a little detergent into the bag. Seal the bad and swish the water and detergent solution around. If the bag held raw meat or any other food that could cause contamination, use a tiny bit of Clorox bleach in your water/detergent solution to kill off any possible trace of contaminants. Once you are done swishing the water around, open the bag and take a sponge to the inside of it. Rinse the bag with cool water. Shake out the excess water and hang the
