In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article ,
says...
On 13/11/07 14:33, in article
, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

In article ,
says...
Charlie Pridham wrote:

Boxes are fine at the nursery but at shows and plant sales, we use
bags, some customers bring their own, but we need to sell to
people that did not realise they wanted to buy something as well!
so if anyone knows of bags like plastic carriers but not made of
plastic, we remain interested to hear about them.

Try Bio bags:
http://www.biobag.no/default.pl?showPage=246

I was going to suggest compostable nappy bags but thought they
might be too small for your plants.


Thanks for that, they look the part, just need to find a stockest
down here (we only use a thousand per year)

Charlie, we use http://torbaypackaging.co.uk/ for some boxes but I
don't think they do biodegradable stuff. I'll email them to find
out.

Just found this while googling for bio bags (which are very expensive
by the way 8X more than plastic) It made rather interesting reading
and goes some way to explain why the government are not pushing that
hard to change things.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/.../index.htm#bio

Yes, I sometimes wish I could believe some of the misguided twaddle put out
by DEFRA too. That article is condescending, implying that everybody is
stupid and doesn't know how to work a bag.

I particularly like "Government is taking steps to help tackle this form of
littering through a combination of regulatory options, partnership work and
awareness-raising. " The "form" of littering referred to is cigarette
litter.

A better option might be an invention called an "ashtray". Most pubs have
many more than they need now.