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Re: Plastic bags

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I have a thing about reusing plastic bags. My S++++bury's shop bags mostly get folded up and taken down to the Samaritans shop for reusing. The other bags that I get are used for clean things first (storing shredded paper for the hens for example), then after that they become bags for collecting nettles when out with the dogs (again for the hens) then finally they are used for picking up dog poo in the garden or ash from the woodburners. Eventually I have to thrown them away but it takes a while.

I like bagel bags too. Small enough to be handy. I make my own bread and use each microperforated bag at least twice.

Honestly, I think I'm taking things a bit too seriously.

My S++++bury's order came without bags yesterday. I can see a crisis looming.
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I have got at least five Son-of-morris reusable bags permanently employed as auxiliary wardrobes at the moment, one stores camping gear in the loft, another has fishing bait, one collects the children’s wellieboots and so on…
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Like Kath J I thought that getting people to use their own bags rather than the stores plastic bags was an environmental issue.

I think that plastic bags should be banned altogether, unless degradable. I understand that ordinary plastic bags stay in land fill for a huge number of years and also they are a hazard to wildlife on land and in the sea. It is possible to buy from most supermarkets bags that will rot away, including dustbin bag liners, but as is the norm they are more expensive. I don't know why ordinary plastic bags, for bins etc, are still allowed to be sold if the environment is the concern.

Strikes me, it may just be another way to make more money as lots of people will say what is 5p and pay it.
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Over here we haven't been given plastic bags in supermarkets for years. I picked up some great hessian type bags from sasda's three years ago when I popped over to the UK (for the first time in 13 years!) which are still going strong. Otherwise, you can get great bags here (one euro each) or use boxes or fruit crates which are great for lighting the fire afterwards.
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albertajune wrote:I think that plastic bags should be banned altogether, unless degradable. I understand that ordinary plastic bags stay in land fill for a huge number of years and also they are a hazard to wildlife on land and in the sea.

Some turtles specialise in eating jellyfish and often mistake plastic bags as food, once eaten the bags block their throats and they starve to death. Same goes for balloons BTW, events that release helium filled balloons into the air are deliberately releasing litter which can (and does) kill marine life).
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The degradable ones just break into smaller bits and kill plnkton eaters instead of turtles.
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I bit the bullet yesterday and ordered 500. Paid £9 for them (strong degradable type).
Like spreckers I use them for waste, storage, freezer etc.

I found a place where it worked out at 1.2p per bag but you needed to order 2,000 !!

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Hope they prove to be a good buy, Richard. We have Boyes stores up in our area, and their bags are so strong, but now, they are charging for them! {cry} I use mine over and over again. Just had a bag of apples given, so this will have been used by its previous owner before filling it with apples. I shall use it for a bin bag, don't believe in throwing them away empty.
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