Couldn’t we use the recycled paper that we have tons and tons of ?
The quality of recycled paper is not as good as the new stuff Julie and it’s a lot cheaper and faster to make paper from wood pulp. I can’t see the big paper manufacturers in this country deliberately making their product more expensive when other countries will take the cheaper option…Would you start paying ten pence for a paper bag?
Strangely, the dustmen seem to know what’s what and they will not take it away if they spot something in the wrong bag or box. So what do they do?..
…They put a plastic sticker on it of course.
I think I already do, tesco delivery adds 40p to each order for bags, when mine arrives in 3 or 4 bags I’m easily paying 10p a bag already. Quality of the cheapy plastic bags isn’t great either 3 bottles of pop and the handles break.
Perhaps we should invest more in 3D printers, then we wouldn’t need to go shopping, we could just print it all.
I remember when I was about five years old and my younger sister was in my mother’s pram. I had to toddle alongside because the rest of the space on the pram was full of shopping bags - but they were the big old-fashioned type made from leather, cotton or wool material or paper bags with handles. I don’t remember my mother having carrier bags when I was young. We’ll all be using those pull along tartan trolleys again soon.
Yeah print all our own food. Most of it’s made of plastic anyway 
We can and do.
In my job, I visited lot of paper mills both here in UK and elsewhere in the world. Almost all used recycled material.The largest in this country used entirely recycled paper. It was part of their sales pitch.
If you wipe your bum or blow your nose a worldwide brand of tissues is manufactured in Kent out of recycled material.
One in Taiwan that I did the drives for used bagasse which is sugar cane waste.
A paper mill in Oxford, now sadly closed, used recycled paper to make every grade from the glossy used for porno mags to the fine (35gsm) used for bibles.
Glad to hear that. So it would be possible to make carrier bags out of it again too.
There are up to date versions .
Yes, it would.
There is a mill in Scotland that had a refurb a few years ago. It churns out Kraft paper, the brown paper used for paper bags among other things. Their No2 paper machine has had several speed ups to try to cope with demand and, more recently, Machine No4 has been taken out of mothballs.
Sounds feasible, but how do they provide for drainage?
That makes sense, but what is the advantage of including plastic, I wonder?
I’ve watched ours. They wheel the bin to the lorry as fast as they can, pull the lever, the bin is emptied and returned.
I don’t think they’re in the least bit interested about what’s in the bin. The just want to finish their shift and go home!
Marge already has one.
It’s good for when ‘we’ walk to the local shops, but if we drive to the supermarket it’s a bit of a hassle to lift in and out of the boot, which rather defeats the object.
Ours is up to date, I think.
Anyway, it has three wheels on each side to help ‘walk’ it up steps.
I chose it!
It was Marge’s birthday present a few years ago.
Yes Muddy, why be so gloomy?
Of course there are. I was merely telling a recollection of a memory that’s all.
Get a tow bar fitted
I am impressed. All women should have one. :-p
Because I feel like being a gloomy b****r I didnt realise it was a joke.
I am fed up with all this cheer and God ( or whoever ) forbid have to live through New Year yet .
BAH HUMBUG !