The Secret Life of Plastic Bags

We all know perfectly well that hairpins and plastic bags have their own independent life within our homes; in fact, we all realized sooner or later that:
a. hairpins disappear, going to places we cannot even imagine.
b. plastic bags just keep on breeding!

My image shows an average-sized rubbish bag and it corresponds to the amount of plastic bags we (2 people) accumulated in approximately 9 months (and just bear in mind that I tend to go out with an extra carrier in my handbag so that I don't need a plastic bag when I do my shopping).

What are we going to do with this? Burn it? No. Rent an extra room for plastic bags' families? No. Throw it away hoping the plastic gets recycled? Yes, because its content was taking a whole cupboard in my small kitchen.
Look at what this woman did! But I'm not that skilled...

Let's think about it, maybe we can all find easy ways in our daily routines to produce less waste.