For a while now I have been growing annoyed with the ever increasing number of enviro bags around the place. They are being used for wrapping up kids b'day pressies, show bags, information handouts... the list goes on, thus I think I have at least 30 enviro bags now. To start with I enjoyed receiving them so that I could use them for groceries but now I have too many. Does anyone know if they can be recycled? sorry if that is a dumb question. I have noticed that they are becoming litter on the streets now, I suppose others are having the same problem as me and don't care if they lose a few.
Are you talking greenies or calico bags? I reuse the calico bags for household storage tasks, eg hubby has things in them hanging in the shed. I have some other non-green greenies that are being used for things like - toy bag for toys in the back of the car, keeping the picnic rugs in so I can just grab and go.
Your local op shop would probably be very happy to take any extras off your hands, they often reuse plastic shopping bags for their sales, so they would welcome any extra eco bags too.
Interesting.There is also the isue of them being too large, so that they are too heavy once filled with groceries.
My local MPis lobbying for the"standard" size to become smaller.
In SA plastic grocery bags are banned as of April/May, so it will be interesting to see if the litter rate of envirobags inreases dramatically here.......
I was mostly refering to the green and other various colours that they come in like you can by at the check out at Bunnings/coles etc. I too have them stuffed with things all over the house. The kids have there skates, toys, clothes hanging up in their cupboards, we use them for swimming, storing kilo's of spuds from our garden lol. They are useful. I also use them at the clothing pool I run for my kids school. Usually they are dumped with used clothes in them for me to sort, so I use them when people buy something. I am in favour of them over the plastic bags however I think that people haven't quit got used to using them instead of plastic. I think that they are being used as well as the plastic bags, I have even seen people put their items into a plastic then putting them in an enviro bag.
We have too many. We were actually part of the plastic bag trial and boy does it add some guilt to forgetting bags. As we had enough greenbags, I was always happy to pay the charge for the plastic bags rather than buy more greenbags.
Some of my bags are now falling apart, well they do get treated roughly so that is understandable. I use them in the boot of the car to keep things tidy, like wet weather gear, straps for the trailer etc. I have used them when packing, so things can be divided up rather than just dumped all together in a box, they are good for messy things like cables. Even with doing all that, we still have too many.
It would be interesting to see what we are meant to do with them when they die.
Enviro bags are everywhere!
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