Mine uses actual paper bags which can be recycled. What you describe sound like paper bags with a very thin plastic liner, they're not so god for recyclingIs your pharmacy wasteful with the bags they put your prescription in? Mine used to put them in a paper bag that I'd put in recycling, but I'm not sure if they even were recyclable. It was paper, but it also felt a little too slick. Now they use plastic bags which aren't reusable and definitely not recyclable.

