Rubbish bin liners - if not plastic, then what?

I get my groceries delivered from Sainburys and I can hand the thin plastic bags back to the driver for recycling. For other shopping I buy the 'bags for life' and use them for as long as possible, then exchange for a new one - again the bags are recycled by the supermarket. I also use a backpack for non food items to help me use less carrier bags.

I have very little rubbish. I compost vegetable waste.The council provides us with a bag for cardboard and a bin for recyclable plastics, cans and papers, another bin for bottles, and finally a rubbish bin. They will take silver paper, batteries and clothes which can be placed on top of one of the bins. Additionally waste cooking oil can be put when cold in a plastic bottle, and a black food waste bin that closes so animals can't get in is also provided. I spend my whole time sorting things into the correct category. It means there is very little actual rubbish and I put it in a small white bin liner in a small bin in the kitchen.

biodegradable bin bags is the way to go.

Is buying biodegradable bin bags the answer, and hanging them inside a cupboard door, HurdyGurdy?

Yes, we also have a composter in the garden but we have huge lawns and hedges so it cannot cope with all of it.

We have 5 bins in total from our council. Grey for general rubbish, brown for garden stuff (we pay £49 a year for this, but as we have a big garden, saves endless trips to the tip), green for recyclables. A smaller grey bin outside for food waste, peelings etc and an even smaller grey one for the kitchen for the same thing. Our council provide little green biogradable bags for the kitchen bin which then gets put in the small grey one outside. What a palava but better than the USA. When my daughter visited from Texas she was very confused and said “we don’t get choices like this, it all gets chucked in one bin”. Why, I ask myself, is it really such a hardship to do a bit of sorting and America surely have the resources to do this.

Jinty44 You beat me to it. I used to throw wrapping away but now I use any plastic that I can't avoid receiving. Also packaging like a bag that had popcorn in it can take quite a bit of waste. Then I take the whole bin down and empty it into the wheelie bin.

Depends how much compostable waste you produce. My hotbin turns just about all my waste into lovely garden compost, I even have to shred my waste paper to feed it. I only eat meat about twice a month, have very little bone and fat, which gets wrapped in newspaper for disposal. I buy skinless fish, no waste there

One of those under sink things is called a waste disposal, they are vile things, I had one taken out after a few months use, they use vast amounts of water and still end up smelly. They are very wasteful and there was one in my new house which I had the builder remove before I moved in

We use newspaper to line the inside rubbish bin, and wrap anything that's damp in newspaper as well.
I wrap waste food in newspaper to put in the food caddy, but there is very little ( a few bones and scraps) as we compost most of it.
I do see that if you don't have a daily newspaper you would have to be more careful, but we love a proper newspaper, so it works well.

If you have room outside you could have a worm farm, these will eat your food waste and also produce lovely fertiliser for the garden.
If you want to keep using plastic carrier bags then have a look on EBay, lots for sale on there or ask on freegle/ freecycle if anyone is giving them away

Our council collects organic waste, so I make origami boxes out of newspaper and then prop one inside a similarly sized sandwich box. About once a day, I roll the newspaper box and food waste neatly in more newspaper and stick it in the organic collection bin. There are instructions for various easy newspaper boxes on YouTube.

We have a rubbish bin under the sink, lined with newspaper. A little bin the work top for peelings etc. to go in the compost bin. Outside the back door is the recycling container and food waste bin.

We waste very little food and my husband takes it up to the tip every few days in this hot weather. We don't use teabags, just tea leaves which go into the compost bin. As we live on a hill we don't have bins, just grey sacks and boxes.

I also use the bags from multi packs of loo rolls.
Seems sense as they would only get thrown out anyway.

My bin is currently lined with the plastic wrapper from a 9-pack of Andrex (the 12 and 16-roll pack wrappers are even better). And I've recently switched to bamboo rolls ( www.thecheekypanda.co.uk ) so their bag is evendegradable.

Could you make use of that? Some of the packaging you buy getting a second use, just as you did with the carriers?

Maybe splash out and buy bio degradable bags made of bamboo etc
Stop thinking of your little life and look at the bigger picture of trying to save our oceans. Christ if that’s the main problem in your life you have it easy.

We have a range of ikea bins in our kitchen cupboards for general waste, composting & recycling. Whilst I applaud the fact that ikea is discontinuing the plastic bags to line the bins, I would welcome a paper or biodegradable substitute.

well, I could rant here... always the buck passes to the consumer ,, you and me! and it is the manufacturers, and supermarkets who use this plastic,,, did you , or I, ever ask for this?

rant over.

I am fortunate with food waste, not t bags though, we have a small sink disposable thingy... not too expensive, and had it some years, so that disposes of food.

plastic bags to dispose of plastic! our local council requirement.

My family was the same Tangerine Some rubbish was thrown straight into the dustbin and anything messy was wrapped in newspaper.

Years ago people used to burn rubbish and paperwork on the coal fire and more people had compost heaps.

My parents always used to wrap rubbish up in newspaper before putting it in the bin. We didn't have a kitchen bin. People used to burn sanitary towels or wrap them in newspaper and put them in the bin.

Perhaps people will have to revert to wrapping rubbish in newspaper.

Oops, pleasantly...

As well as local authority recycling, I was pleasnatly surprised to see what Morrisons supermarket is accepting for recycling. Here's a link (I hope)

my.morrisons.com/help/information/store-services/recycling/

Loads of plastic stuff, not just their own carrier bags. Great initiative, I support it.

If our waste, garden waste and recyclables are not put out in the correct bags and box it just gets left.

watermeadow our council supply wheelie bins for rubbish they don’t supply bags apart from green waste. We don’t have a choice.

My waste bin consists of two hooks on the inside of a cupboard door and I now buy waste bags on line. One standard supermarket bag lasts a fortnight. I throw very little away. A large old enamel casserole standing on the work surface takes all vegetable waste plus used kitchen towel and other bits of paper and compostable waste . This goes on the compost heap. I then have a small pottery bowl with lid for wasted cooked food or animal or fish waste, which eventually goes into the food recycling waste bin.

Our weekly food waste bin usually contains no more than a couple of fish skins, bacon rinds and the odd chop bone. Food is not wasted in our household.

You don’t have to have vast plastic wheelie bins. It would take me months to fill those. I have green bags for garden waste, blue bags for cardboard and sone plastic, a black box for paper and tins, black bags (which I must buy) for household waste. These all live in my shed.
The aim for individuals should be to reduce waste and recycle plastic and put pressure on the major polluters, big corporations, to do the same.