Tuesday 19 November 2013
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- Odds and Sods...
- Happy Thanksgiving
- On the road from Hay to Eardisley.
- Surprising Book Facts
- Croeso i'r Gelli / Welcome to Hay-on-Wye
- Buttons
- Friday My Town Shoot-out – My Weakness
- Charles II – what school didn’t tell me
- Seven Rules of Life
- Plastic Bags
- Do you know the Potoo?
- Chepstow
- Are you a Hedgehog or a Starfish?
- A Brief Holiday – Buddleigh Salterton
- A Brief October Holiday - Taunton
- Koeksisters
- A Brief Holiday - Burrow Mump
- Shakkarpara
- A Brief Holiday – Day 3 – Glastonbury
- About Meeces and things
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It's not just you. What's worse is when you find one that you haven't used for a while and try and pull out a bag only to find that the plastic of all the bags has started to break down and you end up spraying the room in tiny bits of dead plastic bag.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do. And sometimes it drives me crazy. I'll open up the pantry to get something else and a bag or two will fall onto the floor, and then I have to bend down and pick it up.
ReplyDeleteYes, i do. They are destined to be used at the Civic Association luminaria sale in a few weeks, i save them up for that purpose through the year as i get them. However, i don't get many, as i bring my reusable shopping bags whenever possible. Ever since i saw a picture of a lion cub in Kenya playing with a plastic bag, i've been more determined than ever to use as little "disposable" plastic as possible.
ReplyDeleteHave to smile at the combination of question and picture :) ... but: That's just you! (I actually keep plastic bags in a contraption designed for the purpose, the name of which I don't know in any language. It hangs on the inside of a wardrobe door in my hall.)
ReplyDeleteBy my experience, it's just a rhetorical question.
ReplyDeleteMy plastic bags are stored in a lovely bag dispenser that I made....actually there are two, one for large supermarket bags which I use as trash bags and the other for the smaller plastic bags. That's about 30 bags in each one, and in my opinion that's enough bags to have stored at any given time.
ReplyDeleteWhen my Mum passed, she had a tonne of stored neatly folded plastic bags (some disintegrated when I touched them)....something to do with the "it may come in handy one day" syndrome but how many do you really need... I threw out tonnes of bags.
We have two bag dispensers that I bought - one in the kitchen and one upstairs. They are cotton tunnels of attractive countryside scenes. But I still find we have more plastic bags than we could ever need despite always taking our permanent shopping bags to the shops with us. Where do all these plastic bags come from? Usually any extra ones we get we give to the greengrocer who uses them for customers who haven't taken their own bags. The greengrocer refuses to buy plastic bags and I think it's for 'Green' reasons not just economy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I go shopping for groceries I usually bring my own bags. The shops that still automatically give out plastic bags here are mostly the fashion shops.
DeleteFunny you should ask -- I have two bags full of bags in the trunk of the Honda right now, to be dropped off at the recycling bin at the supermarket next time I go to the store.
ReplyDeleteI, too, have a dispenser (here and in Eagleton) and use the bags for waste in containers I have specially adapted for them. I appreciate that there are good reasons for banning plastic supermarket bags but I find it slightly annoying as a recycler (who also uses 'proper' shopping bags) to have to go and buy plastic bags for my waste bins when I can use the bio-degradable supermarket ones which I use when I forget my canvas ones (and which I'm happy to pay for).
ReplyDeleteOf course it's not just you. I have them upstairs and downstairs!
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