General Chat

Dizzi, pmsl, don't even suggest that !!!

I reuse bags at supermarkets where you get the points added for doing so, I reuse the Morrisons ones that I always take as there's no advantage not to but they last quite well for reuse and then go to the pedal bin bag ready for changing over when necessary. I do have some cloth and pvc shopping bags but rarely remember to take them with me lol

Lizx

GET TO CHECK OUT

HOW MANY BAGS MADAM AND HOW MANY MINS DO YOU REQIRE TO GET HOME,
THANK YOU MADAM THE BIO DEGADE HAS BEEN SET TO DEGRADE WITHIN 3 MINS OF YOU ENTERING YOUR HOUSE

I must admit that like quite a few of you I have been a hoarder of plastic bags. They filled several banana boxes. I am now in the process of taking them to the op shop, otherwise they go out in the rubbish to fill the landfill even more. For several years now I have taken my own cloth bags when I go shopping so I dont get so many plastic ones.

Huia.

Never use supermarket carrier bags cos I refuse to advertise their shop for free :-(

Gwyn
Space bags are great Pity they cost so much but they do a good job Found though that OH couldnt get em up the ladder to the loft because they are awkward so handle so the wardrobe in the spare bedroom has em stacked in .

Joy
No mice here..... Just the broken-down bag problem, which makes it look as if the mice have set up home.

Shirley
I'll have to watch out for that. I have some things stored in black bags to keep them moth free. The space bags are great, aren't they? I bought some for storing caravan bedding during winter months.


Gwyn

Black bin bags also disintegrate in the loft. We put several things in black bags to keep the moth out of em only to find when we were dong a rubbish tip clear out that they looked like the moths had had a big fed on em. Black confetti all over the place and not easy to get off insulation. OH had now boarded out the loft and we use old cartons for storage now ,Bought some space bag for jumpers duvets etc that you can get loads in and when deflated nothing will get in ..

Don't. Get. Me. Started. On. Biodegradable. Shopping bags :-( :-( :-( :-(

Hoarder. House clearing. I'll say no more :-( :-(

********* nightmare. :-(

i hate mice Gwyn
i always have poison under the floor boards
just incase one gets in

Most supermarkets around here have a recycling container for unwanted carrier bags. I use mine a few times for shopping, then as bin bags.

Liz
I have had the 'mouse' problem in a cupboard when I put away small amounts of knitting wool until the school needed it.
What a mess!

Gwyn

Many store carrier bags break down really fast and boy, do they make a mess, it's as if a million mice have been to tea!

So annoying when you pick them up and the contents fall all over the place intermingled with bits of carrier, and very hard to clean up too.

Lizx

Bags also deteriorate in freezers!!
Ive had stuff wrapped in carrier bags that have fallen apart!

As much as i would enjoy spending time counting the amount of carrier bags i have stashed in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. I don't think i have that long to live!! :-D

The carrier bags in our hospice shop are not there long enough to disintegrate. We get a lot of customers in there. They would have the problem of the disintegrating bags! Otherwise you can put them out in the rubbish collection, knowing that they are not going to be a permanent problem at the tip.

Huia.

they have thin card handles lol

But do they have String handles in a re inforced part ? if they,re made and packed properly they could last for at least three trips,then be either burnt of recycled . ;-)

primark do paper carrier bags, they break before you get home by tearing and all ya shoppin falls out :-(

I can,t understand, why? instead of Plastic they don,t revert to the old type of Paper Carrier Bags which you used to get, reasonably strong and totally recyclable.solve a few problems **M**. :-D

THEY STILL DISINTERGRATE IN THE CHARITY SHOP

THEY STILL DISINTERGRATE IN THE CHARITY SHOP