Using a carrier bag to line kitchen bin?

liz545

I had the same problem as the OP, my solution was to ask my neighbours if they had any spare carrier bags they didn't need - they gave me a huge number that had been stuffed under their sink, should keep me going for ages! Just try asking your neighbours, friends or colleagues, they'll probably be happy to help and then you're reusing as well as recycling!

Freddie_Snowbits

I do not put out anything for the council selwyn bin inspectors to look at anymore. I take it to the local recyle place once a week, just outside Sainsbury. Then I shop at the Co-Op

Cardew

liz545 wrote: »

I had the same problem as the OP, my solution was to ask my neighbours if they had any spare carrier bags they didn't need - they gave me a huge number that had been stuffed under their sink, should keep me going for ages! Just try asking your neighbours, friends or colleagues, they'll probably be happy to help and then you're reusing as well as recycling!

On a matter of principle the OP and yourself, won't accept plastic bags from the Supermarket.

Yet you advocate getting your neighbour to get them and give them to you?

Run that by me again please!

Errata

So far my council is happy for me to use newspaper liners for my pedal bin.
For the doggy doos - scoop it onto several sheets of newspaper and then drop the doos down the lav and the newspaper in the paper bin.

Cardew

Errata wrote: »

For the doggy doos - scoop it onto several sheets of newspaper and then drop the doos down the lav and the newspaper in the paper bin.

Not in my house thank you!

arkonite_babe

ELIZA_D wrote: »

i know.....i know....use cloth bags,which i do.However i have forgotten them at times,my dp never uses them and when we make purchases for things other than food we always have the carrier......
wondering if you have any uses for them that i havnt tried?
we use them to line my bin at work,i have used them for nappy sacks in emergencies.....stop fish from making making other food absorb the aroma in the freezer(dp insists it does?).swimming bag........any other ideas as they are building up under my kitchen sink!

Wew have a similar thread here on G&E already so I'll merge the two

angelatgraceland

Well I would love to not use plastic bags but our local council will only collect the waste if it is tied up in a black sack! No wheelie bins here-or dustbins unless they contain black sacks. Our bin men do not have the wheelie bin lift on their lorries so have to throw the rubbish in.
No way out for me!
Getting the neighbour to supply plastic bags? Well I can see both sides of that. Id try to convert the neighbour not to use them but some people will not be converted-untill they have to "buy" them of course. If that is the case then reusing them is the right thing to do.

liz545

Cardew wrote: »

On a matter of principle the OP and yourself, won't accept plastic bags from the Supermarket.

Yet you advocate getting your neighbour to get them and give them to you?

Run that by me again please!

Fairly simple, really: all the bins in my house are the right size to use carrier bags as liners (the kitchen bin is specially designed for this). As a matter of principle, I try to avoid getting plastic carrier bags when I go shopping, but I recognise that not everyone is doing that yet, and many people do end up with large numbers of carrier bags in their homes - surely it's better to re-use those ones than go out and buy bin liners that will only be used once? I didn't advocate encouraging your neighbour to 'get them for you', just re-purposing what they're not using. I'd love it if everyone used reuseable bags, but until that happens, I think re-using other people's unused bags is pretty laudable.

DUKE

I must be one of those rare breeds that still uses carriers for bin bags - but I do refuse them sometimes I live in an energy saving building, yet when I asked my local council for some recycle bins they said that they never put recycle bins in a new build

Millie's_Mum

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I think the most important bit of the op'ers message is We recycle everything we can and STILL our bin is full of plastic packaging........ and I try to buy stuff that doesn't use it. By the time I take out the plastic windows out of the junk mail that comes and the other plastic wrapping that comes off it too, I must have a quarter of a bin full a week already! :mad:

If we could recycle plastic pots and packaging our bin would be completely empty!

edit Someone should bloody ban those plastic windows in envelopes, ridiculous.

Do you have a local childrens playgroup/nursery?

My Daughters nursery collect all empty boxes/yoghurt pots/ plastic bottles & packaging for junk modelling.