shopping bags - can i wash them in machine?

[dreamingofsun]

Can i put the heavy duty shopping bags you buy at the supermarket into the machine and wash them? I seem to remember reading that you could somewhere and that it helped reduce the germs on them? (its a miracle we haven't got the plague from ours as some are ancient)

[LadySybilLikesSloeGin]

Germs are good though, they boost your immune system. Food tends to come in bags and whatnot too, so it's a bit overkill to put the shopping bags into the washing machine. Sorry

[homeaway]

If they are fabric then they can go in the machine, if not just wipe them out with anitbacterial wipes.

[yomellamoHelly]

Put them in the sink / bath with soapy water and swoosh them about if they're that bad?

[dreamingofsun]

so machine doesn't sound viable. was hoping not to have the bother of hand washing.........

[shelfontheelf]

I machine was mine, they're fine.

I'm not a germophobe but we've had stuff leak etc and they were looking grim.

[TeaandHobnobs]

I put mine on a rinse and spin if something gets spilled in them.

[PandaNot]

I machine wash mine without any problems.

[dreamingofsun]

brilliant, machine wash it is then