What to do with unwanted parcel bags?

Caty

Hi,
We have literally hundreds of used, but re-usable, parcel bags (plasticy) and jiffy bags (paper with bubble wrap inside) lying around in our house, mainly from ebay purchases. We do use some up when we sell online, for sending onwards. However, we just have so many all over the place and really need to get rid of some, it seems a shame and not very eco friendly just to throw them away (don't think they can be recycled). Does anyone have any ideas?

LJM

i tend to just reuse mine as i sell qiute a bit on ebay

Caty

LJM wrote: »

i tend to just reuse mine as i sell qiute a bit on ebay

We have so many though, we'll never get through them. As in, we probably have around 500

Sagz_2

Put them on your local Freecycle - they will be of use to someone.

emiff6

The grey ones are LDPE and can be recycled - check your local recycling. My local council recycles loads of plastics and polythenes now, including yoghurt pots and all the plastic trays that seem compulsory for fruit and veg and meat in superstores nowadays.

taxsaver

Why not simply list them on e-bay as job lots? I'm sure there are plenty of e-bayers that would love to buy cheap shipping materials.

VfM4meplse

Some good ideas on this post, I agree that it seems a shame to waste them.

Caty, are you an eBay millionaire btw?

Caty

taxsaver wrote: »

Why not simply list them on e-bay as job lots? I'm sure there are plenty of e-bayers that would love to buy cheap shipping materials.

I've tried this in the past, but unfortunately because they're already used I haven't had much success

Caty

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Some good ideas on this post, I agree that it seems a shame to waste them.

Caty, are you an eBay millionaire btw?

I wish. I can only sell 10 items a month because of ebay's 'new seller limits' which seem to last indefinitely

chalkysoil

I tried to give away my old jiffy bags but ended up with a hundred or more cluttering the place up. In the end I cut them up and saved the bubble wrap and recycled the paper bit. A few had the bubbles glued to the paper but most were easy to salvage. Now I have a dustbin bag full of bubble, and loads of charities want that.

Caty

chalkysoil wrote: »

I tried to give away my old jiffy bags but ended up with a hundred or more cluttering the place up. In the end I cut them up and saved the bubble wrap and recycled the paper bit. A few had the bubbles glued to the paper but most were easy to salvage. Now I have a dustbin bag full of bubble, and loads of charities want that.

Thanks, will probably try the Freecycle idea first, and then this one