Just had to share this with you...

greenbee

Frugal wrote: »

I use SM plastic bags as bin liners too (in fact I don't have a bin, just a bag hanging on cupboard handle as I hate bin juice :eek: and I just take the bag to the wheelie bin every day)... and if you factor in the manufacture, packaging and transport of bin liners PLUS bin, its more eco friendly to use plastic shopping bags, surely? I might be wrong but that is my take on it. Also, not having a bin means there was no manufacture and transport costs to make a vessel in which to chuck my rubbish. (I have had 'designer' bins in the past... waste of money and resources, and in my case, space)

Also, egg shells just get collected, crushed when dry and thrown out onto the flower/veg beds to annoy the slugs/snails

I think my biggest gripe with SM bags is that they have now made them thinner so you can't fill them as they split, so end up using twice as many :cool:

My fav 'green' thing atm is melting candle ends with tumble dryer fluff and spooning them into egg boxes for firelighters :rotfl: All stuff that would usually end up in said bin (bag!)

I hate bins too, and do the same thing. I use the charity bags that come through the door too, as I regularly run out of the others because I always carry my own bags...

I don't melt candle ends, but keep TD fluff in a pot by the stove. I have recently taken to stuffing old loo roll inners with shredded paper which works well in place of kindling (although I'm currently working through a whole lot of shredded cardboard that came with a delivery from an Eco-online shop.

reeac

Hadley wrote: »

Does sound like it was written by an American.In some American supermarkets you will be asked paper or plastic.I used to like the brown bags but only good if you are in the car or doing a small shop.

Definitely American in origin as are so many of these mass-distribution screeds. Note use of "soda bottle", "drinking fountain"
, "recycling plant", "gasoline" and so on. Nonetheless it's entertaining reading.