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  • jcr16
    jcr16 Posts: 4,185 Forumite
    as for carrier bags i read in a somerfield mag years bag a lady who used carried bags and knitted herself a big shopping bag. found a link on how to make them.

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Knit-Plastic-Bag-Handbag/

    maybe off them on freecycle maybe someone else has a use for them. or i think with tesco when u have an online deliver they will take any bags to send off for recycling.
  • Skint_Catt wrote: »
    BTW - is there anything I can do with thousands (well, dozens!) of carriers I've stored up?

    I fold mine down to diary size, and keep 3 or 4 together with a rubber band. I then have a pack of those in each of my bags and a few in my car. That way, I can always refuse a bag when I'm shopping (whch admitedly, isn't that often :rotfl: )

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • exlibris
    exlibris Posts: 696 Forumite
    Skint_Catt wrote: »
    BTW - is there anything I can do with thousands (well, dozens!) of carriers I've stored up? A few are useful and I used to use the supermarket ones as bin liners, but I don't have the supermarket ones anymore, just the WHsmith style, which don't stretch over the bin edge - I hate the thought of them going to landfill! :confused:

    I collect mine and give them to my local green-grocer. He also get small change when I collect £1 of copper.as I believe they have to pay for it from the bank.

    I use the vacuum bags too, but I find that after the first emptying they lose the seal and eventually fill with air. Have you put a flat bag in the top of the wardrobe and found it has risen behind the door track and you can't get the thing out easily?
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