DH is a librarian and buys the newspaper every day for his patrons, then brings it home, and I use those to pick up the poop of our four dogs, in the yard. Outside the yard, I want to try it and may. We use biodegradable bags for indoor garbage. He's in charge of the outdoor trash can garbage and doesn't care much about the plastic thing, so uses it there. For the dogs' poop I sometimes use these smallish rectangles (and ours are big dogs) I got when Borders when out of business here--they are something like waxed paper and apparently used for something or other by food handlers (like maybe to put a doughnut on when handing it to the customer). These are great, but I got a whole lot for almost nothing because the store was closing. I don't know if they have plastic in them, or where else they're available. If anyone else knows these things, I'd like to know.