On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:53:22 +0100, Fredxx wrote:

On 19/04/2021 12:44, David wrote:
Monday grumble.

I've dug out yet another stash of stuff (cable ties this time) and the
plastic carrier bag is self destructing as do most bags of a certain
age.

I can understand that this was seen as a good idea at one time because
plastic bags in the countryside and in landfill would crumble away in
time instead of being there "forever".

However it is a royal pain in the arse when your stock of "useful
sometimes" carefully stored in carrier bags (reuse instead of rubbish)
are suddenly found to be scattered everywhere because the bag has
disintegrated (as designed).

Further 20/20 hindsight suggests that with the major environmental
issue now being micro plastics, disintegrating carrier bags are making
the environment worse not better.

Grump.

Now back to tidying up the mess and rehoming my stash of cable ties.
I may even (eventually) get round to using a couple of cable ties which
is what I set out to do some time ago.

The Co-Op certainly had bags that disintegrated in the distant past, but
I though all "for life" bags were pretty rugged.

What bags are these as your experience isn't common apart from the bags
I mentioned?

Before the "for life" bags when supermarkets gave away plastic bags like
they were going out of fashion.

More recently reuse of bags has been encouraged with "bags for life" and
various plant fibre bags. Also charging for single use plastic bags.

However an earlier initiative was to supply ?biodegradeable? plastic bags
which would disintegrate after a period of time and so not clutter the
place up.

Going back a good few years, now, possibly decades.

Well over 5 years for this bag because it was from Hong Kong Airport and
that was a good while back.

Co-op and Tesco for a minimum but I thought that for a while all the major
supermarkets were in on this "green" initiative.

Cheers


Dave R



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