Thanks

I am all for the Bag Yourself a Better Environment Campaign. The sentiment is highly commendable. However the campaign never attempts to educate the public on what do use to line our household (kitchen and toilet) rubbish bins instead. Whenever I ask the check-out chicks at the local supermarkets for example, “what are we supposed to use for our kitchen tidy bin lining if not these plastic bags?”, they answer, “I don’t know” or, “you can buy some kitchen tidy plastic bags from here if you like”.

Obviously that would defeat the purpose, big time!

The only alternative I can think of is to line the bins with newspaper. This can be messy but if you don’t live in an apartment (which I do) then you -
i)can compost your fruit and vege waste in the back yard; and
ii) don’t have to use the garbage shoot (you are not permitted to toss loose garbage down the shoot in any apartment building).

However even if you don’t live in an apartment, if you read the newspaper on-line so never buy a physical hard copy newspaper (as I do), then this is not a practical solution either.

I would dearly love to stop using the grocery store plastic bags but currently I believe I need them. Can you help me solve this problem please? Can you please incorporate an education campaign about the alternatives available also.

Cheers
Helen