TIP for parents and anyone who looks after small children

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TIPS for parents or anyone that looks after small children:
If you use nappy bags, Instead of buying them, just use the free bags giving by the council for food waste

(obviously doesn't go in food waste caddy lol)

I don't get free bags from my council?

We have to pay £2 for a pack that lasts around a month.

We have pay! They were free, now they charge £2 the bastards

I'm in wales

I am too Reenypip but I have to buy mine. £1.30 I think for council's own ones that don't actually fit the caddy or £2.00 for supermarket ones that do.

And what do you put your food waste in?

Alternatively you could buy sainsburys basics nappy sacks which cost about 20p instead of ripping off the local council.

I used to use old bread bags, frozen pea bags, carrier bags for CDs, the bag from a box of cereal once it's been decanted, etc. - all those dozens of small bags you would otherwise throw away every week, instead of either ripping off the local council, enriching sainsbury's shareholders, or adding extra plastic to landfill.

I line our food waste bin with the free newspaper which comes through the door every week. No extra spending in our house!

By the way, most of the small bags which come from the supermarket can now go back to the supermarket for recycling - including grape bags and cereal packets.

Free bags from the council yet you have to pay 5p for a carrier bag in Wales? Surely they are breaking the law? ;-)

I don't use any kind of bag, just wrap everything up in the nappy itself...

Dangers of nappy sacks

I do also use anything to put nappies in, like a crisp bag or sometimes nothing at all!
I heard the council do a special nappy collection just for nappies, a new service so going to look into that.
I think charging for a bag is a good idea, because before I wouldn't always take my own bags or if I did it would just be one or two or a ruck sack. Now I take more re usable bags to fit all the shopping in, instead of using a mixture of my own and there plastic bags.

I think occasionally using a food waste bag is ok especially if out and about and it's an exploding watery pooh. (and there no nappy /sanitary bins to put in)

All things can be hazards to children, any bag not just nappy sacks.
And again it's common sense not to leave any lying around or in available reach.

If I have any food waste they go in food waste bags, but have been trying for a few years not too get too much food in that there will be too much wastage.
In our house every 2 weeks we have, 1 black bag to every 5-6 green recycling bags, and 1 food waste bag with food in.

You know in this very cold weather we've had, we have the gas heating on one hour every 2-3 days. That's how tight money is.
I go without food some days just so I can buy food for my baby and get what he needs.
I'm also in a wheelchair with multiple chronic health problems, and partially paralysed. Life is tough. But I make the most of it by what I can. I live each day the best I am able to.
Strangely enough, I'm happier than most people despite being in constant pain and other horrible problems, and not being able to afford food for myself or gas.
I'll go without and make sure my baby is catered for first.

So don't tell me I'm ripping off the council by using a food waste bag occasionally when I really need it and nothing else around.

I don't get food waste bags either as we don't have gardens so don't have a green bin.

I didn't use nappy bags generally, but once DS got over 1 or so and his poo was no longer neatly contained in a re-folded nappy and tended to stink the house out, I started using bags. I don't buy nappy sacks though, I use those little clear bags you buy fruit and veg in at the supermarket. Only needed one a day/every 2 days or so so never really ran out, and if I did I just used a normal sized supermarket carrier bag.

A little OT, but I live in a large North American city, and we put used diapers nappies into our organics bin. We don't wrap them in anything, just fold them up and toss them in a covered bucket. They are collected along with the regular organics once a week...

More info here.

It's one thing to do it if you absolutely must (but it's still ripping off the council - well, tax payers actually - so the rest of us in fact) it's quite a different thing to start a thread telling people to do it!!

My partner works and pays taxes thanks very much.

I read the council do a service for Contience things that include nappies, so I could also use that service for my catheters and peristeen throw away items.

I think there is people who are just lazy bums wasting more of the tax payers money than using the odd bag when nothing else around.
I was sharing with people who really struggle like me

Backpedalling much?

there's a difference between 'don't use nappy sacks use these' and 'i only use the odd one'.

i think I'd easily use up all my food waste bags if i used them for umpteen nappies a day!

Surely those green bags signify biodegradable food waste, so putting shit covered plastics in them risks nappies being sorted into a compost bin?