Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find an
alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

--
Rod

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onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
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Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly
bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find
an alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

They fit quite nicely in the car boot for chucking stuff in for the tip.

If you use one as a receptacle whilst trimming hedges and so on, it's
possible to squeeze even a fairly full one into the boot by pushing the
bottom in first and then forcing the rest through the gap - then it just
pulls out by the handles at the tip.

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AJH wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:49 +0100, "PeterMcC"
wrote:

If you use one as a receptacle whilst trimming hedges

I use them for just that and we used to deliver logs in them. They
don't last too long if you drag them around so I always scrounge them
from people having deliveries of sand.

Beware they lose a lot of strength after a few months in the sun.

Why don't you offer The Natural Philosopher and Andrew Mawson a few bob for
the surplus ones they have?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

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AJH wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:49 +0100, "PeterMcC"

wrote:

If you use one as a receptacle whilst trimming hedges

I use them for just that and we used to deliver logs in them. They
don't last too long if you drag them around so I always scrounge
them
from people having deliveries of sand.

Beware they lose a lot of strength after a few months in the sun.

Why don't you offer The Natural Philosopher and Andrew Mawson a few
bob for
the surplus ones they have?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



I can probably find one or two if you want to collect ( 7M north of
Hastings in East Sussex)

AWEM

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:34:56 +0100, "Andrew Mawson"
wrote:

I can probably find one or two if you want to collect ( 7M north of
Hastings in East Sussex)

You should have said a couple of weeks ago, I was trying to map
Amsterdam but the tide didn't go out far enough ;-)

AJH



uh?

AWEM

Beware they lose a lot of strength after a few months in the sun.


.... only too true ! I recently filled two with pea beach by hand
shovelling only to have the bottom fall out of one as it dangled in
transit from the JCB front bucket, and stupidly managed to tear the
bottom out of the second by not lifting it high enough over some spare
rear buckets the were in the way - not a good day !!!!

AWEM

Rod wrote:
Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find an
alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

Ive got around 50. Elfin safety means they are no longer reusable.


useful rubbish bags tho.

Rod wrote:

Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find an
alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.


Try offering it on your local Freecycle:

http://www.freecycle.org/groups/unitedkingdom/

"Rod" wrote in message
...
Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly
bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or
find an
alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an
insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org

Having been doing some major construction recently I have a lot of
them. I use them to store 'overs' from bulk deliveries of ballast,
sand, pea beach. I use them to store (and shift arround) logs. Then
tatty ones get used to gather rubbish before being plonked into the
skip (*). I even have one that is used to store about twenty other
ones!!!

(* rubbish in bulk bags packs doen VERY nicely if gently leant upon by
the back actor of a JCB 3CX GG )

AWEM

wrote:
On 20 Aug,
Rod wrote:

Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find an
alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

Keep it for taking garden refuse, particularly tree prunings to the tip.

Liner for car boot when doing building jobs.

Dust sheet.

And many more.


A kite?

stuart noble wrote:
wrote:
On 20 Aug, Rod wrote:

Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly
bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find
an alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

Keep it for taking garden refuse, particularly tree prunings to the tip.

Liner for car boot when doing building jobs.
Dust sheet.
And many more.


A kite?

Got loads of kites. Possibly the most commonly seen bird round here. Or
did you mean for camera mounting? :-)

Thanks for all the suggestions - I might very well use some of them. But
I am glad I don't have 50 to manage!

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org

"Rod" wrote in message
...
stuart noble wrote:
wrote:
On 20 Aug, Rod wrote:

Having just used up a ton of sand, I now have an empty one-trip poly
bag.

It seems I have two options. Roll it up and put into dustbin. Or find
an alternative use for it.

Any suggestions? It seems such a waste to chuck it.

Keep it for taking garden refuse, particularly tree prunings to the
tip.

Liner for car boot when doing building jobs.
Dust sheet.
And many more.


A kite?

Got loads of kites. Possibly the most commonly seen bird round here. Or
did you mean for camera mounting? :-)

Thanks for all the suggestions - I might very well use some of them. But
I am glad I don't have 50 to manage!

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org


Use them as dust sheets to cover the doorways and windows when you buy an
Aldi Wall Chaser. :-)