*International Plastic Bag Free Day* tomorrow July 3rd

It must be years since I used a plastic bag. 🤔

Same here. I can’t remember the last time I used one

I use them all the time, the ones I have kept for years and reuse.

My supermarket bags are well used, they're always in the car. Yes like others I can't remember the last time I bought a plastic bag.

I wish that they would just stop selling them, full stop. 😡

The fresh fish from the fish stall in the market was in two small plastic bags. I cannot think of a way round that. I wouldn't have wanted to put my two fillets of smoked haddock directly into a cloth bag to carry it home.

Thats easy don’t eat fish 🤣🤣🤣

Lidl provide paper carriers now, but no good if you do a big shop, because they’re only lidl.

Scooping up dog detritus in a paper bag 🤮
Oh I know! Don't have a dog!

Putting food waste, even if you have very little, in a plastic bin liner . . .

OK, I know, don’t eat food.

Compostable plastic free food bags are available. There may also be environmentally friendly poo bags. Dog owners will know.

Parsley3

Compostable plastic free food bags are available. There may also be environmentally friendly poo bags. Dog owners will know.

There are. Most poo bags say biodegradable but judging by the ones that are left on the ground or hung on trees and are still there weeks, even months later biodegradable doesn’t have much meaning.

I use mainly cloth tote bags or Hessian shoppers for my " ordinary " shopping.

My supermarket items ( big shop, once a week ), goes in 2 of those insulated picnic baskets with handles. Cost about £6 from B & M/Home Bargains. These sit nicely in the supermarket trolley. I use the scanning handset as I go round and pack directly into them. A few people have stopped me to say what a good idea. Easy to lift in and out of the car boot and into the house.

The only plastic bags that come into the house now are MrLP's Iceland delivery ( once a month ), and the thin blue ones from the plant stall at the local market. I try to remember to take these back with me to re-use.

Any random bags that come into the house (ie with gifts or posted items ) are re-used as collecting bags for the charity shop. I always have one on the go and when it's full, off it goes!

Having said all that, I've just realised that I do buy plastic bin liners, as I don't like messy things like food waste going straight in my bin. Our area is supposed to be getting a food waste recycling bin sometime this year. The bag in my inside recycling bin gets re-used until it tears.

Gone are the days when I used to have a huge collection of plastic bags that might just come in handy!

Take care all xx