No more free kitchen bin bags, what do you do now?

Am I the only person to have a tall bin? We have a tall brabantia one which only takes their bags (clever) and it is actually too big for just DH and I but it cost a fortune so it has to last at least another 10 years!

When we had dogs we used nappy bags which have the added advantage of having a nice camouflaging smell!

I have one of those tall bins, kitty, but buy bags which fit from Asda (30 ltr tall kitchen bin bags). I refuse to pay Brabantia prices!

This is the carrier bag bin that I have it hides inside the door of the 'under the sink' cupboard takes up no room and as I don't ever put any food waste in it I never get smells from it. I can't even remember where I bought it but I've had it for ages and it saves having an actual bin hanging around the place, its small and once the bag is full you just unhook it from the holder tie the handles together and put in the outside bin.

www.betterware.co.uk/carrier-bag-bin.html

as usual I forgot the link

Ana, ours is 50ltr and for a while I bought Sainsbury's bags but they always used to collapse when we pulled the drawstring - not good!

I use a roll of white bags from Asda, size 35 litre, for my tallish bin that sits in the bottom of a cupboard. Can't recall the price but they must be cheap enough or I wouldn't be getting them.

Here in N. Ireland we have been without supermarket bags for a few years and after folk got over their complaining, it is working very well. The bonus is that there are no scrappy bits of plastic hanging from trees or blowing around the roads.

We have been without carrier bags for a couple of years now but I have not had to resort to buying bags - which kinda defeats the purpose of the ban. We too get 1 or two charity collection bags every week and I save bags from e.g. duvet cover set, clothing bought on line and wrap nasty stuff in old newspapers as we used to do way back when. Our 4 recycling bins are just round the corner from the back door so lots of stuff goes straight in there. Also anything compostable - veg peelings, left overs, tea bags goes into a caddy and then into the compost bin. Cardboard or waxed cartons are crushed and used to light the fire. Potato skins and citrus peel also burn well.

Just think back to what we did before we started being profligate with plastic.

I'd love to use newspapers for rubbish but I no longer buy them but read them online. How do you mange your general kitchen waste/rubbish Granny23 do you manage without a kitchen bin?

Tanith Thanks for the link, I too have have a rubbish system that relies on hanging plastic bags by their handles. I still have enough left to have begun to wonder what to do when they are used up, but not taken any action.

I was taken aback yesterday to discover that the edict on charging for plastic bags extends to buying clothing. I bought some clothes in Next and was told if I wanted a bag I would have to pay. I did have three bags with me, but all have held all kinds of goods and I did not want to put new clothes in them in case they got soiled before I even got them home.

I am used to the French system, thin plastic bags were withdrawn completely years ago, all you can buy at the till is bags for life, but if I buy clothing in a French supermarket it is always put into a smallish very thin plastic bag, like a vegetable bag, to protect it from soiling.

Following the link Tanith posted I have also discovered that 'vest' type carrier bags can be bought from a number of suppliers through ebay.

I try not to buy from Amazon since their record on tax paying was made public.

Tanith we have one of those frames that you hang a bag on, inside a cupboard door but it is seldom used except in really foul weather. That is where I hang my charity bags etc. My big kitchen swing top bin now sits beside the washing machine & serves as a dirty linen bin. I'm a compulsive re-use and recycle person

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I don't use a kitchen bin as such, but have one of these sets of drawers. One drawer is for paper and cardboard for recycling, the next for washed plastic containers and cans for recycling, a third with a bought biodegradable bin liner for landfill refuse, and saved empty bags in the last.

I use old plastic bags to empty out old cat food left on plates, it's then put straight out in rubbish bin. If I scraped it into kitchen bin it would smell bad.

We don't buy newspapers. I used to put old food out on plate for hedghehogs etc to eat, but am worried about attracting rats (we have them around as chicken farm quite near)

It seems a shame for me to be buying more plastic.

I agree it is a problem. I have a tall bin , so have always bought bags on a role. This is not helping the enviroment espcially as more people will be buying this type of bag.
I don't think the shops actually gave plastic bags out of the goodness of their heart , the cost will have been factored in to the goods we bought Also the logos provided advertising for them. I do think that the cost of the bags going to charity is a good idea. I have in the past used charity bags through the door but feel guilty as you an give these bags back to be reused. We have a free paper through the door that gets used for veg peelings. I have often used nappy bags for small 'yucky' items.
I Will now be hoarding any plastic that comes through the door.

Wish I could provide of a genius solution. But at the moment it escapes me .

Thanks Tanith your info was really helpful .

Those of you who need small bin liners with handles. I saw some in B&M yesterday. Like carriers on a roll.

Reading through these posts it would seem that none of you have the recycling kitchen waste bags that they have in South Wales. Two brown bins are issued - the smaller of which is for kitchen use and you get biodegradable bin liners from the council - a much bigger brown bin for outside into which you place the full small ones. Works very well - the kitchen waste goes to some specialist recycling facility. The rest of the recycling is divided into two black boxes (glass, cardboard and paper) and a very large strengthened plastic bag which takes metal and plastic. When it is collected the remainder of the sorting takes place at the kerb as the stuff goes into the various sections of the lorry. The black bags which contain little stuff if you have sorted correctly are not smelly and so collected every fortnight. The last council area we lived in had more than 50% of waste recycled.
Here in France we have clear yellow bags for all the recycling stuff but need to take glass to a very large glass recycling bin and the stuff not for recycling goes in the black bag. Living in the country we have a compost bin so little stuff in the black bags

Welshwife we have the same recycling system as you where all the food goes into a kitchen caddy then into a bigger bin to put out for recycling, most things are recycled and I only put a black bag with what was in the kitchen bin and the various rubbish bins in the bathroom, living room and bedroom which consist of used tissues, makeup cotton wool, empty sweet wrappers and other detrius about once a month. I still need a bin in the kitchen for this type of rubbish it includes used kitchen roll mostly and other bits that don't fit into any 'recycling' category.

We have food recycling here in Oxfordshire, a green bin in our case. the food does have to be in biodegradable bags, but we have to supply buy the bags ourselves. All the local supermarkets sell them.

But even after all our rubbish has been sorted; vegetable matter in compost, food waste in special bin, recyclables in another bin, there is still a residue to go to landfill and for that I need a bag with handles to hang on the two hooks on a kitchen cupboard door. Up to now I have relied on the few carrier bags I got occasionally, plus generous donations of bags from both DC.

However since tanith's first helpful link I have also been on ebay where I found I can buy handled bags for considerably less than the supermarkets charge.

We also have a house in France. There we are expected to recycle a lot more than just glass; all glass, food packaging and paper has to be deposited in special recycling bins in the village centre, no doorstep recycling collection. For household rubbish the Mairie issues us with clear plastic bags so that the bin man can check whether the household rubbish includes anything that should have been recycled, in which case the bag will not be collected, nor will they collect any rubbish not in the official bags.

Colchester recycles most things. It is a faff to separate everything out until you get a system. I have three dustbins for paper, plastic and non recyclables. Also a box for food waste, a box for tins and glass and bags for garden waste and clothing. They collect different stuff each week so you have to be on the ball.It's plastic I always have the most ofand non recyclables are minimal or just us being lazy . The council provides us with 52 of each sort of bag and all the various boxes, you can get more if you need them.
I pick up free newspapers for wrapping anything sharp etc. They have The Metro on our buses now.
I have carriers lining my wastebaskets but usually just tip them out and reuse.
I have just been away and had to pack my shoes in poundland bin liners because I didn't want to soil my precious carrier bags. Should I invest in proper shoe bags?

Flipping heck, they want you to do a lot of sorting in your areas. We have one bin for everything recyclable, one for garden waste ( we pay for that) one for food waste and one for anything that doesn't fit those categories.

In Northern Ireland we have had to pay for carrier bags for several years. You learn to hoard any suitable bag to line bins. i.e. the bag from a multi pack of toilet rolls is ideal. DH often forgets to take a bag when he's out and is happy to pay the 5p. I of course make sure i keep the precious bag for lining bins.

The nice charity bags which come through the door each week fit my tall pedal bin perfectly and the carrier bags used to line the other waste bins dotted around the house last for ages as I just tip out the contents as they only get dry stuff in them.

I do have one of those over the door bag holders and I've found an old shopping bag which fits it perfectly, anything wet or sticky going in there just gets a wrapping of paper or kitchen roll first.

I mean, it's only in the last 40 years or so that shops started giving away plastic bags so we should be able to manage without again, surely?

I have been wondering this myself but reckon I have about a years' worth of bags to use up as I probably only use about two a week with all the recycling that we do. Great idea NfkDumpling as I don't believe those charity bags are always authentic.

I've bought those "t shirt" bags from Amazon. Good value but I couldn't believe how fast I'd run out of free ones. I begrudge paying 5 pence.