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What do you do with your old plastic bags?
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I too take my own cloth bags to the shops,but today I was in Bluewater and bought a carton of UHT milk and had a bag given to me for free.tescos apparently this week are doing their 10p carriers for free this week as well.0
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I use some for rubbish and reuse others. Since I heard the charge was coming in I have been building a stash of them!0
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I keep them till I have a bag full, then off to Tesco to put in their plastic recycling thing! If we keep the new style degradable ones too long, they fall apart into little pieces and make an awful mess...No buying unnecessary toiletries 2017 UU 6
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drinkupretty wrote: »I use some for rubbish and reuse others. Since I heard the charge was coming in I have been building a stash of them!
Same here! We have one of those holders that stick in the wall from IKEA which is fully to the brim at the moment.
Also ideal for blackberry picking and retrieving any remains the cat have thoughtfully gifted you :eek:0 -
Bin liners and put dog poo in out of DDs garden if she's desperate, that's the dog not DD lolWhy pay full price when you may get it YS
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no stash here either! we have had 'the charge for carrier bags' here in Wales for quite a few years now, and its rare I have to purchase one as I keep two or three in my bag and one or two in the car.
btw, its so nice not to see the riverbanks and roadsides not festooned with discarded bags.0 -
For the bin. Used to take stuff to the charity shop, sticker it with Gift Aid details and leave it there.“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
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I use one carrier bag per fortnight as a bin bag, and donate stuff to the charity shop in them. Where excess inventory has built up, I've folded them neatly and handed them over to small local chazzers who don't have their own bags and who are always on the lookout for one.
I do use re-usable bags for my shopping.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Bin liners mostly. If I end up with a bunch of bags that don't fit the bin I leave the into the local charity shop - they're quite grateful for them usually.0
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