ok, instead of going back to THAT thread i am starting my own (like i was told to)

[nailpolish]

i have a serious question

those of you who have these giant shopping bags/boxes etc from places like Lakeland - great idea

i use the bog standard plastic bags in the supermarket. i then use these bags as bin bags in my kitchen bin

so

what do folks who have the reusable bags for life/lakeland boxes etc do?

do you buy rolls of bin bags? if so surely you are defeating the purpose? or do you not use bin bags/liners

TIA

I buy degradable bin liners [furball polishes her halo]

NP I'm so glad you've asked this, I've often pondered it!

where do you get them furball

are they 100% degradable

I use one degradable bin bag in my inside bin a week, which I then have to put into the council black bag or they won't take it

most stuff goes in the recycling / composter tbh.

Mine are from Brabantia, like these

yes we recycle what it is possible to recycle and we have a compost heap too

but there is always rubbish that gets thrown out

aha! you can compost them

anyway who has told you off np?

Have you been norty?

I get degradable bags from Waitrose, but the better thing is to throw out less and less by

-recycling everything I can
-composting everyhthing I can
-using the council's new food waste collection for what I can't compost
-therefore wasting less food having seen what isn't getting eaten
-buying stuff with less packaging

I still end up with plenty of bags (which are all reused one way or another) from my grocery delivery from Ocado or Tesco and when I forget to use my Onya bag onyabags

I was in Sainsbury's today and they seem to have made all their bin bags degradeable! Whoopee!

i went on someones thread and started chatting about something that was related to the topic, but not directly.

i got told to get lost and start my own thread, apparently i was 'diluting' their thread. i wasnt aware of thread ownership

majorstress - nice bags

lol @ "always Onya"

why cant the supermarkets issue degradable bags?

I am like nailpolish and I use supermarket bags as bin liners. Well not exactly to line hte bin, I just have one handy, put rubbish in it over the course of a day and then ditch it in the bin before I go to bed.

I have half a black bin of rubbish every fortnight.

We fill two very large brown compost bins every fortnight (I asked the council for more but apparently we shouldn't even have two, even though they are only achieving 38% of their recycling target). We also have a compost heap - our bins mainly have grass clippings.

We fill 5+ bags of other recycling every fortnight (these bags, provided by the council are roughly 2ft x 18in x 18in)

we dont use black bags - i just throw the full supermarket bags from the kitchen bin into the black wheelie bin which the council collects fortnightly

we also have a green wheelie bin for compost stuff and garden rubbish and kitchen rubbish - but i dont use it as i have my own compost heap

the council also collects all our recycling in a big green box every week

i am going to find degradable bin liners now and get these lakeland box thingys - thanks everyone

those onyabags ARE cool-I gave some as little pressies at Xmas to in-laws and they really liked them-mind you they live in Ireland where plastic bags are taxed.

So I guess I'm diluting your message/query here, nailpolish.

I agree with you really, but it's nice to knwo the sainsburys bags are degradable. I do hand back my delivery ones in a bundle to Tescos etc. and they happily take them-but I can;t help wondering if they just chuck them out the window as they go around the corner.

sainsburys bags are degradable??????????????

thats the supermarket i use (and therefore use their bags as my bin bags)

i hate it when in shops i say i dont need bag as i either use cloth bag or put stuff in pushchair,they say what no bag-very confusing apparently!co ops fruit and veg bags are now biodegrable.

noodlestroodle said the sainsbury's bags are degradable earlier in this thread.

I love those Onyabags - especially the ones you can use for bagging up fruit and veg when you're shopping in the supermarket - fab idea.

ah - she said sainsburys bin bags are degradable - not their plastic shopping bags at the till

'Degradable' isn't the same as 'biodegradable' though, the supermarkets just put that on the bags to make you think they're better than they are.

I thought Tesco's had gone biodegradable as well?

which is best then fleacircus