My wife brought this one up and I couldn’t think of a good answer. The question is in the OP, but why no black liners for a standard kitchen trash can? We prefer to waste the plastic by using black trash bags, instead of the contents being seen by all using white bags.
Any idea how this standard came to be?
Mine are yellow.
Depends on where you buy them. I used to work at a paper distribution warehouse and we sold white, black, gray, and clear kitchen trash bags.
Perhaps it’s the “white=clean” premise.
yeah, I’m thinking it may just be regional, but why not give a choice of letting your neighbors see through the bag when it’s waiting to be picked up on trash day? Oh well, just one more mystery.
Mine are green/see-through. I’d love to hear an anwer. Why see-through? It’s gross.
Mayhap you’re buying really crappy trashbags, because I’ve never had any white kitchen bags that you could see through. They’ve all been thick enough to be opaque. Besides, my trash goes straight from the can to the rolly bin, from which it goes straight into the garbage truck. Why would you think anyone was looking at your trash bags, anyway?
Umm, we’ve never used anything but black. Sounds like the OP has a flawed presumption.