On 08/02/2020 12:08, Chris J Dixon wrote:
john west wrote:

Having a lot of stored Junk, we have the problem of bringing it down a
ladder and sorting it and then putting some back.
Supermarket plastic carrier bags were good for storage and very handy to
carry up and down the ladder, but i think most are now probably
'degradable' and will soon fall apart into a thousand pieces.
Are there any plastic bags (maybe some bin bag types or similar?) that
will not be degradable, that any one knows of ?

I guess the supermarket "Bag for life" types are going to be
reasonably long-lived, though they aren't free.

They are around here as people throw away their rubbish in them: I
retrieve them if they are clean.

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Max Demian

On 08/02/2020 14:19, Max Demian wrote:
On 08/02/2020 12:08, Chris J Dixon wrote:
john west wrote:

Having a lot of stored Junk, we have the problem of bringing it down a
ladder and sorting it and then putting some back.
Supermarket plastic carrier bags were good for storage and very handy to
carry up and down the ladder, but i think most are now probably
'degradable' and will soon fall apart into a thousand pieces.
Are there any plastic bags (maybe some bin bag types or similar?) that
will not be degradable, that any one knows of ?


AFAIK, only Tesco were stupid enough to introduce disintegrating bags,
which they later replaced with "normal" "single use" bags prior to the
clampdown.

I guess the supermarket "Bag for life" types are going to be
reasonably long-lived, though they aren't free.

They are around here as people throw away their rubbish in them: I
retrieve them if they are clean.


You can then "accidentally" rip them and swap them for clean ones when
you visit the respective establishment, with the side effect of the bag
exiting the landfill dead end and (theoretically) entering the recycling
chain.

On 09/02/2020 11:11:13, John Kenyon wrote:
On 08/02/2020 14:19, Max Demian wrote:
On 08/02/2020 12:08, Chris J Dixon wrote:
john west wrote:

Having a lot of stored Junk, we have the problem of bringing it down a
ladder and sorting it and then putting some back.
Supermarket plastic carrier bags were good for storage and very handy to
carry up and down the ladder, but i think most are now probably
'degradable' and will soon fall apart into a thousand pieces.
Are there any plastic bags (maybe some bin bag types or similar?) that
will not be degradable, that any one knows of ?


AFAIK, only Tesco were stupid enough to introduce disintegrating bags,
which they later replaced with "normal" "single use" bags prior to the
clampdown.

Around here it was the Co-op, and not Tescos.

On 09/02/2020 11:50, Fredxx wrote:
On 09/02/2020 11:11:13, John Kenyon wrote:

AFAIK, only Tesco were stupid enough to introduce disintegrating bags,
which they later replaced with "normal" "single use" bags prior to the
clampdown.

Around here it was the Co-op, and not Tescos.

A few years ago Ryman gave away bags which told you to reuse them but
they disintegrated if you kept them more than a few months.

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Max Demian