# Best tall kitchen (13-gal) garbage bags? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725 "2025-03-17T15:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/21 "2025-03-17T19:23:31Z")
One option, whether or not you have municipal composting, is to keep the food waste container in the freezer. A frozen mass of food waste is going to stink and leak less than one kept at room temperature. When you’re ready to take out the garbage, dump the frozen mass in the garbage bag and bring it to the dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/22 "2025-03-17T19:24:10Z")
I like the Hippo Sak bags I found on Amazon. Made out of sugar cane not plastic-which was the draw for me. But they are thicker and more leak proof than I expected. They have satchel handles that tie up easily. > **[Amazon.com: Hippo Sak - Plant Based Tall Kitchen Garbage Bags with Ergonomic...](https://www.amazon.com/Hippo-Sak-Ergonomic-Recyclable-Friendly/dp/B075X2DGBF)** > > Buy Hippo Sak - Plant Based Tall Kitchen Garbage Bags with Ergonomic Handles - 13 Gallon Trash Bags - Recyclable & Eco Friendly - Super Strong and Leak Proof Tall Kitchen Trash Bags (90 Count) on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/23 "2025-03-17T19:24:47Z")
I definitely do that. I always have. 👍🏼 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/24 "2025-03-17T19:28:07Z")
Interesting… When I went to the link you posted, amazon tells me that I bought these one time before in 2021. I wonder why I didn’t buy them again? I already had my beloved green trash can. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/25 "2025-03-17T21:27:26Z")
I don’t know which are the best, but we have found Hefty to be the least hefty. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/26 "2025-03-17T22:07:55Z")
I’m sure you weren’t Glad with that. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/27 "2025-03-17T22:14:50Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > One option, whether or not you have municipal composting, is to keep the food waste container in the freezer. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I definitely do that. I always have. 👍🏼 I have never heard of such a thing. I keep food in my freezer. Not trash. I certainly do not have room in my freezer for trash (even just food trash). Who are you people? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/28 "2025-03-17T22:17:08Z")
Food trash is food or was, until recently. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/29 "2025-03-17T22:21:27Z")
Would you be happier if we called this stuff by its more familiar name, “leftovers.” Leftovers that I don’t plan to eat are perfectly clean. I don’t want them sitting in my warm kitchen garbage can getting smelly until I take the bag out. So I’ll put the salad or few bites of lasagna or green beans in a plastic bag (the kind the you put veggies in at the grocery store) and stick it in the freezer. Then the next day or the day after when I’m taking the kitchen bag out to the dumpster, I’ll throw in the frozen leftovers, which have now morphed into trash. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/30 "2025-03-17T22:24:37Z")
That’s part of it. The stuff in my compost pile also includes things like shrimp tails (leftover from a Chinese dinner the other day), apple peels and cores, peels and other inedible bits of other fruits and veggies and even things like chicken bones from another takeout dinner. All of this can be composted at the municipal facility designed for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/31 "2025-03-17T23:16:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > when I’m taking the kitchen bag out to the dumpster, I’ll throw in the frozen leftovers Now I’m curious. I assumed it was food waste that was leaking, as it is wont to do. We do have city composting, and so it is the compost bag that tends to leak, and our regular garbage is always dry. Is there compostable (and wet) material other than “leftovers” that is sitting in your garbage bag? Would it be feasible to freeze that as well? Speaking of compost bags, the name brands are the worst. The obscure ones I liked to use got downgraded to a thinner material. I found a replacement that is still thicker and that works well, it only remains to see how long they stay available. We use one a week, so it takes a while to work through a box full. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/32 "2025-03-18T00:24:25Z")
Maybe I don’t police my leaky leftovers as rigorously as I suggested. I don’t know. I’m getting all self-conscious about my garbage now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/33 "2025-03-18T00:44:04Z")
Just heedlessly fling it out the window. That was good enough 200 years ago; I’m sure it’ll be fine now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/34 "2025-03-18T01:44:36Z")
Haha! Great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/35 "2025-03-18T02:24:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe I don’t police my leaky leftovers as rigorously as I suggested. I don’t know. I’m getting all self-conscious about my garbage now. Sorry, I was problem-solving again, without being asked. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/36 "2025-03-18T02:35:35Z")
No, no. That’s ok. It was a reasonable question. I guess wet things go in there besides food. I can’t think of what but clearly something does. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/37 "2025-03-19T14:16:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Glad Flex-Force is probably the best you’re going to find I’m partial to Hefty Ultra-strong, which you can get on Amazon via Subscribe-and-save. The Glad ones are good too. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/38 "2026-06-10T13:27:56Z")
Reviving this thread to share my latest favorite, super-strong 13-gal kitchen trash bags from amazon: > **[Amazon.com: Plasticplace 13 Gallon Trash Bags │ 1.2 Mil │ White Extra-Large...](https://www.amazon.com/Plasticplace-Gallon-X-Tall-Drawstring-bags/dp/B01BUDVKVI)** > > Taller and stronger than your average kitchen garbage bags, these gleaming white drawstring trash bags are ready to be your kitchen’s knight in shining armor. Standard 13 gallon kitchen trash bags are just 27” tall, while these are 31” tall: the... As the blurb says, they are taller and stronger than any other bag I’ve tried. They are 4 inches taller than regular kitchen bags, so when you take the bag out of the can, there’s plenty of head room to stuff extra garbage in there. And 1.2 mil thick–need I say more. Highly recommend. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/39 "2026-06-10T17:15:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Kirkland (Costco) 13 gallon scented bags with a tie top. I’ve been using these for at least 15 years without issue. They don’t leak or stick or cause any other problems that I’m aware of, even if heavily loaded. 25 years with no problems. To the OP: you can buy them from CostCo online. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725/40 "2026-06-10T18:22:04Z")
So happy you found a bag you like. I love love love your green trash can. @ThelmaLou . Can I have it? It would look great in my bathroom. Pah–leeeeeeease!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tall-kitchen-13-gal-garbage-bags/1015725.md?page=3)