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Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 7:49:51 PM on 22 August 2023.
	GTC Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 28 January 2011 Member #: 823 Postcount: 6761
Not sure if Jaycar is still issuing plastic bags, but I can attest that the ones they have given out for years definitely disintegrate. Tonight I opened a rarely-used cupboard in the garage to be greeted by the plastic equivalent of snowflakes that once comprised a Jaycar bag. (Dunno how many years it took to occur.)

Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 8:05:53 PM on 22 August 2023.
	Marcc Location: Wangaratta, VIC Member since 21 February 2009 Member #: 438 Postcount: 5389
Plastic bags and plastic that decomposes (unexpectantly 50's & 60's) has been with us for a long time. There were plastic bags full of radio club valves here & those bags disintegrated in around ten years and they were not alone. Early Barbie dolls are decomposing as are some radio cabinets & formers. They realised that the wonder material (plastic) of the fifties was not as wonderful as thought and its decomposition is a conservators worst nightmare. There has been a complete reformulation of plastics.

Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 8:14:01 PM on 22 August 2023.
	GTC Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 28 January 2011 Member #: 823 Postcount: 6761
Plastic bags and plastic that decomposes (unexpectantly 50's & 60's) has been with us for a long time Sure, but these bags are designed to disintegrate within a specified period. I generally reuse them as garbage bags, rather than keeping them, so this is the first one I've witnessed doing what I was told they should do.

Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 10:02:30 PM on 22 August 2023.
	Robbbert Location: Hill Top, NSW Member since 18 September 2015 Member #: 1801 Postcount: 2078
Yeah I've had plastic bags that turned into millions of little white bits. Or sometimes if the bag had some printing on it, that would flake off before the bag itself died. And yes, Jaycar still uses plastic bags.

Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 1:04:04 AM on 23 August 2023.
	Brad Administrator Location: Naremburn, NSW Member since 15 November 2005 Member #: 1 Postcount: 7395
The last generation of supermarket bags were designed to disintegrate into powder within about a month of being left in the sun. They were free, or rather the cost built into grocery prices. Now there is a 50c per bag charge on the recycled paper rubbish that they get made in China now, or you can buy a slightly more permanent bag made of jute but when the handles break off them, they go into landfill and take years to decompose. The horrible green ones with material that looks vaguely like fibreglass - my guess is that they would simply not decompose at all, doing more damage to the earth and dolphins than the previous disposable bags. ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 5:01:42 PM on 7 September 2023.
	Irext Location: Werribee South, VIC Member since 30 September 2016 Member #: 1981 Postcount: 485
Aldi sells a selection of reuseable cloth bags which have a velcro strip to hold them together in the shopping trolley as well as dowels on the top to suspend them in the trolley. They work very well and enable you to quickly load up your groceries thus not holding other shoppers up. They appear in their "Special buys" fairly regularly.

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