Storage: which kind of Bags

IKEA or Lidl 'big' bags? You don't have to fill them.

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

Chris

Depends on the type of "junk" - the "vacuum" bags are good for squashable things like bedding.

Owain

I?m not sure that any supermarket bags are ?oxy-degradable? any more. I know we certainly used to have a problem with supermarket carrier bags disintegrating in the loft but in recent years our Christmas decorations have stayed with their bags. ;-)

Tim

Be careful with some of these. After a while they leak, and as the air re-enters the contents expand again.

so you have to suck them flat again before you can get them out of the loft hatch :-)

Owain

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

A vacuum is a hard thing to maintain, and a thin plastic bag with a zip top not much of a barrier. If you need the clothes to stay compressed, vacuum them down then bind them with a few wraps of tape. You don't need the vacuum any more then.

NT

Or when packed high in the loft pushing off the tiles :)

We recently went to M&S and the cashier commented about the old M&S plastic bag that we were using for our shopping - that's when we realised that it was a bag that we'd recently retrieved from the loft, where it had been protecting towels since we were given them, when we got married in 2002!

SteveW

Young whippersnappers! We have bags from Saudi and Omani shops acquired in the 1970s and 1980s, we worked in both countries for several years. We got married in 1972.

In message <r1m79d$8l4$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 11:50:06 on Sat, 8 Feb 2020, john west snipped-for-privacy@mail.invalid remarked:

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

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.

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.

Did it say 'Over 90% of our clothes are made in the UK' ?.:-)