Ther have been a lot of campaign to promote less usage of supermarket plastic bags,?

Question

if we totally shun the plastic bags, what do we use to contain or wrap up the rubbish at home??? imagine the yucky left over food staining ur rubbish bin........

Answer 1

use compostable trash bags....

Answer 2

leftoverfood and all than can be converted to manure.......just collect it in a bucket or something and  dump it in a compost pit or a biogas plant................and with the plasic u already have  REUSE!!!!

Answer 3

The problem with the current plastic bags that you typically receive at a grocery store is that they're not biodegradable.  All plastics will degrade under UV light (from the sun), but the bags that get buried in landfills will never see the sun and take much, much longer to break down.

However, there are plastic grocery bags that are biodegradable, but they happen to be more expensive than regular bags, so grocers are unwilling to use them right now because they would be spending more money for something that they are essentially giving away free to their customers.  To offset the cost of biodegradable plastic bags, store owners could raise the prices of the items that they do sell, but that would put them at a disadvantage against their competitors who use the old bags.

Answer 4

there is no 'rubbish' only waste and most of that is recyclable as compost (organic) or industrial (plastic, metal , glass, etc.).  the rubbish bin is the lazy alternative that turns reusable waste into rubbish!

another idea is just to buy less stuff and therefore use less wrapping materials or ask yourself if you really need a bag to carry just a few items out of a store.  i use cloth bags (pretty energy intensive to manufacture but i can get a couple of years use out of them) or a backpack, depending on how much stuff i need to carry.

Answer 5

There must be some incentive here in the States-I have lived in three states-I ask them to bag my milk or other containers of water etc and I get told "we are trying to conserve, do you really need these items in plastic?"

I use these bags for packing and storing things, garbage, and they are great for doing the cat boxes.  And if we cant use paper without the trees being destroyed, what the heck are we to do?

The last time it happened, I asked them if the plastic bushes were in danger of being extinct. They got the deer in the headlights look and grudgingly gave me some bags for my groceries.

I recycle and reuse everything I possibly can.

Time to invent something else!

Answer 6

Plastic bags were heralded as the savior of trees over the old paper bags.  Now plastic bags are bad...  I guess we are back to paper.  Let's just make sacks out of uranium and give the whole environmental movement the finger.

Answer 7

I have no idea why there's such a rush to do this.  I use those little bags for all kinds of things.  To hold stuff while travelling, trash bags, packing material.  A box of them holds about 2,000 bags.  They are made of a minute amount of plastic!  About the only downside to them is that they get away and blow around in the wind.

I suppose we're meant to use those cloth or canvas shopping bags that they sell, but they're not big enough and I don't need to own six of the @#$# things.

Leave our precious shopping bags alone!

Answer 8

Bring back the paper bag.I don't support the enviros with their issues,but those minute amounts of plastic add up to a heck of a mess.(sorry die)And paper is recyclable and bio-degradable so in the end doing away with plastic seems like a good plan to me.

Answer 9

Paper bags or as crazy as it sounds reusable canvas ones.

Answer 10

Just an additional note, plastic bags were cited as a contributing factor to the floods in Bangladesh in 1988 and 1998.

http://howtosaveenergy.blogspot.com/2007...

To add to a point made earlier, they certainly do add up, in the UK we use about 18billion a year.

To answer the problem of food waste in the bin, you could try composting or, make use of biodegradable bin liners.