The plastic bag debate will just keep battling on with a decided split between those for and against them. But I must admit that I feel truly stuck in the middle.
I realise how awful it is when the bags pollute the sea and wreak havoc with wildlife. It also takes forever for them to degrade.
But they are very very useful too.
My family and I have always had a plastic bag pouch hung up in our kitchen where we stuff all the plastic bags we have collected from our shopping ready to be used in the house bins. I know I'm not alone in recycling these bags, therefore, it seems inaccurate when people call them single-use bags.
Then there is the issue of degradable plastic bags, which sound hugely appealing but there are difficulties if this plastic were ever to get in the recyclable plastic waste stream.
People forget that the bags can actually be recycled, and you only have to go down to your local supermarket to find a bank.
I don't think the answer is banning the bags, it's just time for less plastic bag production and, as always, more recycling.
Tiffany Holland, MRW, Reporter
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At ReRides we've started putting those nasty bags to use as padding in some of our recycled inner tube bags. We wash and dry them in lemon juice and vinegar. Recycling bicycle inner tubes for the bag shells is working great too....
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