# What did you use for inside trash before plastic trash bags?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-use-for-inside-trash-before-plastic-trash-bags/981344 "2023-03-19T05:46:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-use-for-inside-trash-before-plastic-trash-bags/981344/9 "2023-03-19T09:01:21Z")

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In the old days at least some people used the trash can without a liner. Every so often you’d wash/scrub the trash can. I dimly remember that from the late 1960’s. We’d have small trash cans throughout the house. The ones in the kitchen and bathroom got emptied daily into a larger can with a lid in the garage or just outside which is the one that got really stinky.

Yep, newspapers and paper grocery bags were used to wrap/contain wet messes

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