Trash Bags Reviews

Considering that just about every household in the U.S. uses them, there are remarkably few comparative reviews that try to identify the best trash bags. Indeed, we could only locate two sources that merit top ranking in our All Reviews chart: Real Simple, which compared about a half-dozen supermarket brands, and Consumer Reports, which pitted Glad ForceFlex against Hefty Ultra Flex, and compared both of these to the much cheaper Wal-Mart house brand America's Choice trash bags. Both of these publications tested trash bags' endurance in about the way you'd expect, by stuffing them full of garbage, empty boxes and sharp-edged objects like wire hangers.

After these two sources, though, the quality -- if not the enthusiasm -- of reviews falls off sharply. In general, we're not very fond of articles posted on Associated Content, since we suspect some too-positive blurbs have been paid for (or even written) by the manufacturer concerned. However, since the three separate Associated Content reviews we found (by three different authors) compare two trash bags from two different manufacturers, and have mostly positive things to say about both, they appear objective. It's clear that these writers have lived with these garbage bags, and are making an honest attempt to assess their durability.

Our Consensus Report shows how many times products are top-ranked by reviewers included in our
All The Reviews Reviewed chart.

Most of the reviews we found concentrate on Glad ForceFlex or Hefty Ultra Flex bags, with differing results. Due to the general lack of consensus, we chose to go with the opinions of the reviewers rated higher up in our All Reviews chart.