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

you're right, and they aren't! I looked up their website.

They are 33% reclyced plastic, though.

Tescos carrier bags say on them that they are degradable

We use biodegradable bin liners.

No composter because no garden.

you can take plastic bags back to some supermarkets now. not sure what they do with them though

nailpolish which thread?.how dare you post on someone elses thread

Sainsburys new bags - orange with white type on - are degradable. The white ones with orange type are not

lol kitty - this one (nearish the start

so what is the difference between degradable and biodegradable - argh

Oooh I was so cross today. Went to Sainsburys and took with me lots of cloth cotton bags but had DD so asked the checkout lady to pack for me (DD was having a tizzy at the time). While I was dealing with DD, she packed everything into disposable plastic bags and then put them into the cotton bags.

[anger]

But in answer to your question we don't have a lot of actual chuck out to landfill waste because I avoid buying anything that can't be recycled so it's just a bit of cooked food that can't go on the composter (which mostly the cats scoff to be honest).

You lose loads of weight if you stop buying stuff that is in unrecyclable packaging too - you try and find a way to recycle a chocolate wrapper or a crisp packet!

I am in Ireland. I have a very small kitchen bin and hardly ever have to buy binbags for it. I use breadbags, potato bags - any sort of plastic bag really! And my rubbish is collected fortnightly, pay by weight, which is an incentive to compost, recycle, avoid packaging etc.

hmmm, ???

While trying to figure out if the supermarket bags are degradable (I.E Break down more quickly) , I came across a comment that says they release greenhouse gases while they degrade.

note to self: Work more on not throwing so much rubbish out, perhaps, rather than thinking about bags.

Buy less! So you don't have to throw out so much stuff.

Tescos and Sainsbury's DO NOT want that! This is all a con, and a distraction, to make us think oh is all ok as long as the bag rots away fast.

I do both - I use supermarket bags in little bins around the house and black bags in the kitchen bin. I can't have a compost heap as I live on the edge of a farmyard and there are enough rats about for anyone's taste without me adding an incentive for them to come any closer!

Even though we take our own bags when we do the supermarket shop, and I avoid getting bags when I go to other shops we still seem to get plastic bags from plenty of other places to keep the bin lined, like from friends & parents bringing things to our house. If we do ever run out then we have a roll of bin bags we use, or I bring the plastic bags home from the weekly shop at work where they'd only get chucked in the bin, because try as I might I can't get people at work to recycle.
I can't work out how 6/7 people at work can create 8-9 binbags of rubbish a week, and our house creates quarter of a wheelie bin of rubbish a week.
I think I'm one of the few people in our area who support alternate weekly rubbish/recycling collections.

oooh nailpolish naughty you,fancy talking about something else! oops mustnt smile.

for those of you who reuse supermarket carriers (like i do) as bin bags, surely they still end up as landfill then?

and whats the difference between biodegradable and degradable?

degradable/biodegradable plastic

our tesco did you degradable ones for a while, but then switched back cos they were carp and people shopping kept falling through them!

they were obviously crap not carp!

Crap, carp ... it all stinks!

I got this lot from Tesco they are compost bin liners but I use them in my normal pedal bin.

thank you for that StG.

Just to clarify its BIOdegradable thats the better of the 2? because its biologically broken down and there fore compostable?