Plastic bag debate

If you follow this blog at all, you know that I am for the most part pretty environmentally friendly. I am especially concerned at excessive trash. At home I keep my waste to a minimum, I compost, I use canvas bags when I grocery shop, and I never buy plastic bags for my garbage. I just use bags that have somehow infiltrated my apartment. So with all that hard work I create maybe one small bag of trash per week, and throw it out in maybe one or two plastic bags. My concern though, is at work. They line the trash bins, which are at every desk. And even if I drop one tiny non perishable item into my trash, the next morning there is a nice clean new baggie in there. So for all that hard work at home, I am by no fault of my own probably going through several plastic bags per week at work, and multiple that times 50 employees, you can see the problem. My primary concern is me, I make an effort to keep waste down, so what should I do at work? Just not use my trash, thus making it so the cleaners don't pull the bag out and replace it?

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