Can you recycle vacuum cleaner bags?

shandyclover

Please excuse me if there is a thread for this already - I did search but couldn't find one.

I was just wondering if anyone does this on a regular basis? recycles their vacuum cleaner bags. Our vacuum cleaner seems to have expensive tastes - a packet costs £5.00! With 4 teens, various visiting strays, 1 cat, 1 guinea pig, and a fostered westie - we do alot of vacuuming! I resent having to pay for something so disposable. Hubby did try emptying it out through the small hole once but you end up with a face full of dust, which I'm sure is very unhygienic (in Asia we were taught to view dust with extreme horror - alot of parasites are carried in it!) Anyways just wondered if anyone had figured out a method?

rosie383

I have done this many times. I would open the lid of the wheelie bin just a bit and put the bag inside. Then I would just use my fingers to pull out all the stuff inside. Doing it 'in' the bin avoided the dust getting everywhere and I would be able to get a fair few uses out of each bag.

tiredwithtwins

my miele vacuum cleaner uses bags that cos £10 for 6.

hence, i regularly open and reseal it ... just snip the seam off and staple it back together once ive emptied it in the wheely bin as the above poster does!!

i do put a clean bag in after about 2 or 3 reseals as the fabric of the bag starts to get a bit tatty and unsealable

hilstep2000

I have a Henry, and my hairdresser told me her cleaner didn't use bags at all! It works fine, just empty the whole thing now!

daska

My dad used to cut the end off the bag (before vacuuming) and use large bulldog clips.

hermum

My old cleaner had bags & I opened the end & then used parcel tape to close them back up again.

shebangs

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Owain_Moneysaver

have you tried ebay for bags, and buy them in bulk to cut down on postage - so much cheaper than buying from the 'high street'

luxor4t

shebangs wrote: »

before we got the bagless we used to chop the bottom off and then slide a slide binder on to seal it - we had to chop the slide binder down to fit, ....

My old vac had this as standard, I used most bags 5 times before they 'died'

THIRZAH

I've opened the bottom of bags and stapled them up but find they tear after a while.

Wilko own make bags are usually cheaper than the branded ones and they do a range to fit most vacuums.

motherhen2234

luxor4t wrote: »

My old vac had this as standard, I used most bags 5 times before they 'died'

Snap here but I was a student too