Butcher paper is still in use in a few stores around here, as well. The
end of plastic bags would put an end to the paper or plastic question
and, that would put an end to my baffling carry outs. I answer the
question with plastic, support the local economy. Seldom do they make
the
:) on reading the bag recycling method. my thought process ran; I just
washed them, why would I want them to fall on *my* floor? Besides that
the inside of the bag is what ends up needing the cleaning. On
recycling glass milk bottles, how much higher would the energy input be?
Hot water
: [Biofuel] Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
June 20, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0620/p01s03-woeu.html
Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
Spurred by a filmmaker's documentary, the English town of Modbury
became the first in Europe to ban them outright.
By Mark
For the smaller sandwich/storage ones if you get the resealable ones
you can wash and re-use them for quite a while. Stick them to the
fridge when they're wet and when they fall off they're dry and ready
to be used again.
You haven't seen our kitchen floor. You must be a city slicker.
Storage
- Original Message
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, 25 June, 2007 3:48:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
For the smaller sandwich/storage ones if you get the resealable ones
you can wash and re-use them
To some degree, here in the Mid-Atlantic area of the US anyway,
this is mostly doable now.
Taking yer own bags to the grocery is moderately common amongst
folks who care. Some grocers actually will give you an
'atta-boy' discount for doing so. This discount is way
above and beyond the cost
My memory from the 50's says that waxed paper was much used, also a
special kind of strong, not too absorbent paper. Newspaper was often used
as an outer wrapping.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Keith Addison wrote:
can't remember how the meat got packed but the
butcher cut it
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
can't remember how the meat got packed but the
butcher cut it for you while you waited
Butcher paper. Only used for design sketches these says, and correspondingly
expensive
For the smaller sandwich/storage ones if you get the resealable ones
you can wash and re-use them for quite a while. Stick them to the
fridge when they're wet and when they fall off they're dry and ready
to be used again.
Quoting Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
June 20, 2007 edition -
June 20, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0620/p01s03-woeu.html
Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
Spurred by a filmmaker's documentary, the English town of Modbury
became the first in Europe to ban them outright.
By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science
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