Placcy bags

[Alison]

Thanks Mazel-bee, always handy to find another outlet.

[annie trip]

on the box front our local booths give boxes out,and as a shop owner i can tell you most shops have to pay for cardboard boxes to be taken away so if you ask about you should hit lucky. We have to leave ours out on same day as bins but with yellow stickers on we have tobuy. Hope this helps.

[Sue]

Mazel-bee,
Good to know there's somewhere else I can find compostable plastic bags. Hope you do the recycled alumunium foil too?
I have been putting these recycled bags in the compost, they take a while but they do break down. The only problem I've encountered with the freezer bags is that they don't seem strong enough to protect the veg etc. My very first crop of broad beans put in the cornstarch bags had to be thrown away as they'd gone yellow and shrivelled. Anyone else had this problem? I did contact Lakeland and asked them why they didn't stock them and they said they'd been tested and they were not reliable enough.

And one more slightly related query, latex gloves, will these break down in the compost? I get through a lot of these and the resultant waste makes me feel very guilty
Sue

[rosheen]

Even though we have been paying for our bags for about 5 years now I still see people getting snotty when asked for 15 cent for a bag. We all have a responsibility to care for our environment not just big corporations, it is the general public who buy the bags, if they would stop buying them, the shops would stop selling them

[mazel-bee]

Hello Sue.
Yes I do the aluminum foil . And you will be pleased to know that the freezer bags must have come along way as I have been using them for about 18 months and had no trouble so far. Although unfortunately I am quite sure that you are unable to compost latex gloves

[Sue]

Mazel-bee
I found a reference to a green ecofuel, made from sugar cane called Green Heat. Have you come across this? I was wondering if I could use it for cooking on in my shed instead of buying gas cannisters.
Also any idea of which is the most organic shampoo? I keep reading the labels and they all look fairly awful and none of them are in glass bottles, all plastic. There was one Albury, plastic bottle and from America, which looked fairly OK on ingredients, but having just started to use it was not pleased with the results.
Ah! someone to ask about green products... I shall be bending your ear many times in the future!
Sue

[mazel-bee]

I have only heard references to the green fuel but I will now be busy digging deeper and will try to find out more!
When it comes to personal cleaning I find that faith in nature are a very good company ( I personally use them). They have won the golden bunny award and best body care product and have 70% organic ingredients and no sles. They are helpful and name the nature of each ingredient in " english" after it's technical term.
Green people also are very popular and some of their products are 98.39% organic! We did a lot of research before we choose our products and these two came out on top for us. However, they unfortunately use plastic. Hope that is a little helpful Sue x ( they are both British companies too)

[Alison]

Sue, I use Gentle Herb Shampoo by Essential Care from the So Organic web site. It is in a plastic bottle but is soil association certified. Not dead cheap but I've found that my really dry hair no longer seems to need a conditioner so it's working out less than I was paying for a decent quality brand shampoo and conditioner combo.

[Sue]

Mazel bee
thanks for the ideas for shampoo, I can't see these on your web site or the one Alison recommended.
Do you have the details so I could order one?
and thanks for looking out for the green fuel, will be most interested to hear if you can find it.
I saw it mentioned in a Guardian supplement, they listed the WWF as a stockist, but not a mention on their site.
Sue

[Snadger]

I have only heard references to the green fuel but I will now be busy digging deeper

Don't dig too deep mazel-bee or like the Clampets you might strike oil, which would defeat the object! Lol

[pigletwillie]

We genarally use card board boxes when we do shop at Tesco and then put the cardboard in our compost bins. We occasionally use plastic bags on the lottie for produce but use trugs most of the time as they dont squash up all of the produce. Also used are wicker baskets for the same thing. During peak harvesting periods we can fill several trugs and baskets up in a morning.

[Alison]

Have had to resort to using plastic bags inside rucksacs etc to keep things dry but since this weekend am now the owner of some great new waterproof paniers for my bike so am a very happy bunny.

[Dave]

I'm pretty sure Co-Op Carrier bads are bio-degradable - after a reasonable amount of time

[mazel-bee]

Hello Sue. I've not been to the computor for a while.I have found another company. ( in glass bottles) www.nothingnasty.com the products are also very good. We should have the faith and green people products on our website next week so I won't list it all now, and then there are pictures for you to have a look at.

[Nagypants]

Placcy Bags

My friends and I are making a plastic bag poster and are wondering if there are any more uses for placcies that we don't know about!


We would be tres happy if you could tell us some....


Ta very much my fellow gardeners

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