OT(ish) - self destructing plastic carrier bags

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

My experience is that most of the major supermarkets had self destructing carrier bags.

I tend to tidy up my cable ties by sorting them into bundles using....cable ties. I don't find carrier bags particularly useful for storing stuff, I tend to use stacking boxes with screw top jars (glass or plastic) for smaller bits.

?Had? being the operative word. I think they?ve all dropped the oxy-degradable bags.

Tim

I have recently helped clear the house of a deceased "hoarder" The garage had many many Tesco carrier bags full of Tesco carrier bags. (They might come in useful one day). Far from being useful they had disintegrated into potential confetti. They held their shape until touched but you can imagine the mess trying to clear them out.

Re-usable cable ties, please. The number of used-once cable ties you see around the place, mostly cut off and lying on the ground where they fell, is huge.

I got a bundle of re-usable ones some time ago and have found them excellent. Sometimes, almost immediately after applying one, I realise I want to change something or other. Far easier and better to open it up and re-use than cut off and use a new one.

I generally use reuseable ones, but they aren't as neat as the one-time ones and come in a very restricted colour range. So, if its a semi-permanent job, I'll use the one time version.

Most envirobollox is - er bollocks.

The world is fairly clean and healthy in the UK, but they have to find something to tax you for and to keep the charities going.,

I invested in Raaco cabinets for most small things.