Do you fear your bags will stage a Day of the Triffids-style attack? Show’em whose boss.

Yes, you conscientiously refuse plastic shopping bags and use enviro bags as often as you can, but still the plastic bags manage to breed like roaches. How many plastic bags do you have stuffed in (naturally!) a large plastic bag somewhere in your home? And do you despair of ever using them up? Fear not! If you have more bags than home furnishings and décor items, you could make a chair, a few throw rugs, cushions, a chandelier, or a Christmas wreath. If you’d like a stylish yet waterproof wardrobe, you could make a cape, a raincoat, or a bra. It would be less utilitarian but equally cool to make your own menagerie: chickens, a zebra, more chickens, sea creatures, and still more chickens.
Or perhaps you’ve got a mental block and can’t think of the bags as anything but bags, so you just make them into better bags. If you’re artistic, you could glue them onto a canvas and paint over them with oils. If you’re very artistic and enterprising, you could become an environmental artist like Nicole Johnson of Tasmania or John Dahlsen of Australia and sell your creations for thousands of dollars. Rest assured whatever you do make will outlive you as a plastic bag takes 100 years to decompose in a landfill. But then you may decide to simply hoard those bags for picking up your doggie’s doo-doo, because their days are probably numbered. San Francisco was the first city in North America to ban the plastic bag, followed by the equally progressive if not quite as fabulous Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, and Ontario, Canada is gearing up to reduce the number of bags we use, and Australia has already made significant progress in that direction.