Comments on: Plastic Carrier Bags - Tips to Reuse and Recycle http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Jo http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-30 Jo Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:11:14 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-30 Great ideas for reusing, but wouldn't refusing the bags in the first place be a better idea? You can buy better bags for rubbish and dog messes and use stronger-last-longer canvass bags at the shops. Great ideas for reusing, but wouldn’t refusing the bags in the first place be a better idea? You can buy better bags for rubbish and dog messes and use stronger-last-longer canvass bags at the shops.

]]> By: admin http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-31 admin Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-31 In an ideal world maybe, but in reality people are still going to be using plastic bags. This in itself is not necessarily a problem, as long as people start to reuse and recycle them. The main problem is they are ending up in landfill, as not enough people are recycling them. Why buy 'better' bags for rubbish and dog mess, which inevitably will be made of plastic, when you can REUSE an old carrier bag. In an ideal world maybe, but in reality people are still going to be using plastic bags. This in itself is not necessarily a problem, as long as people start to reuse and recycle them. The main problem is they are ending up in landfill, as not enough people are recycling them. Why buy ‘better’ bags for rubbish and dog mess, which inevitably will be made of plastic, when you can REUSE an old carrier bag.

]]> By: JoAnn http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-42 JoAnn Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:24:05 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-42 Are there no biodegradable plastic bags? Are there no biodegradable plastic bags?

]]> By: confused http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-503 confused Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:18:26 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-503 I have a question, I always refuse all plastic bags from shops EXCEPT supermarkets. If we systematically refuse plastic shopping bags in supermarkets what should we use as bins? Is it environmentally friendlier to use supermarket plastic bags as bins, in which case we need to keep going back to get new ones or do we purchase bin liners and buy new single use plastic bags? Are the latter more environmentally friendly? I have a question, I always refuse all plastic bags from shops EXCEPT supermarkets. If we systematically refuse plastic shopping bags in supermarkets what should we use as bins? Is it environmentally friendlier to use supermarket plastic bags as bins, in which case we need to keep going back to get new ones or do we purchase bin liners and buy new single use plastic bags? Are the latter more environmentally friendly?

]]> By: Becky http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-636 Becky Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:31:06 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-636 Woop! Woop!

]]> By: 1 Button To WiFi Gal http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-2996 1 Button To WiFi Gal Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:40:02 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-2996 We have just purchased some cloth bags for our grocery trips. The trick is to remember to bring them with us when we shop:-) We have just purchased some cloth bags for our grocery trips. The trick is to remember to bring them with us when we shop:-)

]]> By: Moxie http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-3035 Moxie Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:14:40 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-3035 These plastic bags can be cut into strips and using a large hook, crocheted into rugs, such as a doormat. Search the web for a pattern, if you need one. These plastic bags can be cut into strips and using a large hook, crocheted into rugs, such as a doormat. Search the web for a pattern, if you need one.

]]> By: Andy http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-3916 Andy Sun, 25 May 2008 01:35:34 +0000 http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com/household-waste/plastic-carrier-bags-tips-to-reuse-and-recycle/#comment-3916 The resources that go into creating, transporting and disposing of plastic bags is a larger problem than the non biodegradable nature of polyethylene. Polyethylene is made from Ethylene, which is a produce of the petrochemical industry. So when countries go about invading each other in order to secure oil supplies, a significant amount of the money they get in return will come from supermarkets and the like giving us 'free' plastic bags. This stuff is never free, the real costs are just pushed out into someone else's back yard. It's not just bags, every bit of packaging you see (and supermarkets must be the worst offenders by far) has been in some way ripped out the ground, transported half way across the world, processed, then shipped again a few times. Then we use it for 10 minutes convenience and throw it away! It's insanity to think that the world can keep on sustaining this kind of behavior. We have elected to give a handful of companies control of our consumer habits, so let's make them do it properly. Make them responsible for the refuse they sell, make them lead the way in encouraging recycling, make them pay for research into sustainable consumption and technologies that enable it. The resources that go into creating, transporting and disposing of plastic bags is a larger problem than the non biodegradable nature of polyethylene. Polyethylene is made from Ethylene, which is a produce of the petrochemical industry. So when countries go about invading each other in order to secure oil supplies, a significant amount of the money they get in return will come from supermarkets and the like giving us ‘free’ plastic bags. This stuff is never free, the real costs are just pushed out into someone else’s back yard.
It’s not just bags, every bit of packaging you see (and supermarkets must be the worst offenders by far) has been in some way ripped out the ground, transported half way across the world, processed, then shipped again a few times. Then we use it for 10 minutes convenience and throw it away! It’s insanity to think that the world can keep on sustaining this kind of behavior.

We have elected to give a handful of companies control of our consumer habits, so let’s make them do it properly. Make them responsible for the refuse they sell, make them lead the way in encouraging recycling, make them pay for research into sustainable consumption and technologies that enable it.

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