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9 years ago
Years ago on TV they showed a ring which was used to keep plastic bags open when sweeping leaves etc. Do they exist?
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9 years ago
I have used - but don't know where it comes from - a sheet of plastic rolled into a cylinder which expands inside a bin-bag and stands upright
In the USA there is the 'leaf lasso' which turns a bin bag into a giant dustpan. Not showing on Amazon UK
Owain
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9 years ago
Well, years ago at least ONE did!
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9 years ago
Yes. But this is uk.d-i-y you can make one by bending a length of scrap solid core mains cable to fit inside the bag and then let go.
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9 years ago
Watch your local council operatives. They walk around with a bag with the mouth held open in one hand by a rigid device so that litter picked by a telescopic litter picker can easily drop litter into the bag.
One way of fining out about this would be to ask your local council but I suspect that these devices are readily available
Malcolm
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9 years ago
Google litter picking HOOP or bin bag HOOP
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9 years ago
You have the right idea. I don't want a handle like the council litter pickers, I just want something to stop it collapsing in the wind at the instant I am about to tip in a shovelful of dry leaves. It happens every time! The original (from memory) was a hoop of flexible plastic which could be twisted until inside then it pinged back to become a circle inside the bag. PS I'm fresh out of solid core mains cable.
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9 years ago
Screwfix £9.99
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An offcut of solid core mains cable formed to the right shape is a lot cheaper and almost as effective.
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9 years ago
We have a pop up green bag (wire framed) which we got at a garden centre. It's stored folded with 2 toggles. Undo the toggles it pops up (about 1m high) and you can put your green bag inside it, with the edge rolled over to stop it collapsing.
Obsolete now, since we got wheelie bins :)
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The trouble with a "ring" is that it won't keep the bag upright, in the way that a suitable dimensioned bit of plastic sheet rolled into a cylinder will. I've been vaguely looking for suitable sheet, but an off the shelf product would be good (if the price is OK).
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9 years ago
I invested 99p in a folds out to triangular garden bag from the remainder area of Aldi. Got it home and assembled it and thought this looks really good. Next time in Aldi, they still had loads left, so I bought another.
They are both still in the garage, as yet unused. Perhaps I'll have enough energy to sweep up in the spring.
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9 years ago
They are available; try a garden centre. -very good if you're filling the bag with hedge clippings etc. as the plastic sheet stops the twigs poking through the bin bag.
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9 years ago
You can get spiral pop up garden waste bags, which you could probably fit a binbag inside - holds it open and holds it upright. Not necessarily this one, but you can get them in £stretcher type shops
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9 years ago
Thanks. I rather tend to avoid garden centres, although my wife and her girlfriends are very regular visitors. I will give her an action!
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9 years ago
I've been keeping my eyes open, and haven't seen one.
Andy
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9 years ago
Bit out of the way, but, they have them in Blythe & Wright's ironmongers in Sheringham, Norfolk
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9 years ago
2 hours away. But the fact they have them implies you an still get them. I'll keep my eyes open in the occasional real ironmongers I visit. (Thorns in Norwich are pretty good, and I go there quite often)
Andy