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On 13/11/07 08:47, in article
, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

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On 12/11/07 17:17, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:13:21 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote:

Interesting site about Modbury, the town that has banned plastic bags.
The video of a speech by Ray Anderson on the "Why and How to" page is
excellent.
http://www.plasticbagfree.com/index.php

and if anyone thinks this is OT for this ng check out the site.

I'd be more impressed if they were giving away reuseable bags.

You're still paying for your supermarket plastic bag, you just don't know
how much! People value what they pay for, so they'll use those bags
elsewhere, too.

So does anyone have first hand experiance of plastic free bags which can
be used for wet plants? (we would gladly change but have never found any)

We use some plastic bags but our main 'carriers' are shallow cardboard
trays. They arrive flat and we make them up as needed. On busy days we
could almost have one person doing that job.
I think they cost us about 15p each but at least we feel they're fairly
eco-friendly. One woman asked us if we would give her 'some', as her cat
likes to play with them! We said we would gladly do so but would have to
charge her for them. She seemed genuinely shocked to learn that this was
because we have to pay for them. ;-)

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.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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.

--
Linz
Wet Yorks

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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 Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

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
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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.

On 13/11/07 15:31, in article
, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

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

Hm, they're not that interested, are they? I'm afraid Defra just doesn't do
anything for me.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

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

Hm, they're not that interested, are they? I'm afraid Defra just
doesn't do anything for me.

You'd be unique if they did :-)

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:26:08 -0000, "Amethyst Deceiver"
wrote:

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.

STFU! Ugly bitch.