out with the old

Anybody remember what those things are? The things kids used to sit on top of when they were too little to reach the table? I have kept them for nostalgia's sake, but they have long since become useless to look anything up in. Not to mention all the stores advertised are likely no more, since retail, like phone books and plastic bags, is no more. Except Amazon and Instacart. So where the phone books used to be, there will now be the Instacart shopping bags (brand new) you can't return. Mama's got a brand new bag! Well, lots of them. How can this be good for the waste stream? I refuse to throw them away. Some day when food is manufactured in your kitchen instead of grown or killed, someone can throw out these shopping bags as well.