Types and sizes of garbage bags
For the convenience of users, garbage bags are produced:
- Different displacement.
- Equipped with handles and ties.
- Supplemented with side flanges.
- Produced in rolls and by the piece.
- Performed in different colors.
If for ordinary users the color of the bag is not so important, then for the disposal of medical waste it is the main criterion: depending on the hazard of waste, it is put into a bag of a certain color.
For industrial waste
Production wastes have large volumes, therefore they require appropriate containers. The enterprises use bags with a displacement of 180 liters and more, increased strength.
The product is used:
- Treatment-and-prophylactic institutions.
- Construction organizations.
- Cleaning companies.
- Hotels and catering establishments.
For household waste
For the disposal of household and office waste, the main criterion is ease of use, so that the bag can be easily put on the trash can or bucket.
In everyday life, garbage bags of the following sizes are used:
- 10-25 liters, for compact containers.
- 30-60 liters, for standard buckets and baskets.
- 90-120 l, for waste bins and bulk waste.
Bags with ears or ties are easy to remove and seal, minimizing direct contact with debris.
To the store with your container
It is not customary for us to bring your containers to the store, but if you yourself do not doubt what you are doing, the store will also take it calmly. It's easier not to ask permission, but to immediately pack it in your container. For example, when I see an unfamiliar seller in the fish department, I order: “Four squid carcasses here, please,” and I hold out my container, looking at the squid with detachment.
Tense, apologetic glances at salespeople can only add to their confusion. Therefore, I behave as if everyone around is doing nothing but going to the store with their containers, and to my bewilderment I simply answer that “I have no trash can”. There are usually no more questions.
Only once did the seller sternly tell me that it was “unsanitary conditions,” and refused. I insisted that she check with her manager, and then she still had to put the goods in my bank.
Stores and individual sellers are often reinsured, fearing that they will be sued: no one is willing to answer for the fact that you poisoned, because they did not wash the container well. Usually, it is enough to contact the manager with a request to voice a specific article of the regulation or by-law that prohibits buying in your container, so that the issue is removed. (Russian SanPiNs allow the release of goods in a clean buyer's container: clause 8.11. SanPiN 2.3.6. 1066-01 - Requirements for the sale of food products.)
If you go to the same store with a clearly drawn list like this every week on a certain day, you can not only avoid rash purchases, but also establish friendly relations with employees. I am happy to meet Karl and his team in the cheese department every Friday, exchange a few words with Quito while he collects my order of fresh bread, and catch Jay's eternal smile at the checkout. Thanks to these guys and their patience, this whole system works. So patience, friendliness and gratitude!
Bea Johnson
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If you remember that just a few years ago almost no one cleaned the dogs up, and the lawns around the house looked like minefields, then neat bags for excrement seem to be the height of civilization. But hundreds of plastic bags per pet per year is not a solution.
Manufacturers, trying to please us, began to produce paper and biodegradable bags. But these options cannot be considered environmentally friendly. More resources are spent on the production of paper bags than on the production of plastic bags. They are also often made from wood, and not from waste paper.And oxo-biodegradable plastic does not disappear completely: after it, particles of microplastics, extremely harmful to nature, remain.
The ideal solution has yet to be devised, although reusable containers and excreta bags can already be found in stores overseas. So far, the problem is being solved by waste paper sheets and a reusable scoop.
How to pack shampoo in a suitcase so it doesn't leak?
Passionate travelers know that nothing superfluous should be taken on a long journey. Therefore, for packing some necessary things, it is optimal to use other things. For example, it is convenient to wrap bottles with alcohol in a soft towel - this way they will definitely not break. Plastic bags will not protect you from shaking in the luggage compartment.
And for shampoos and other cosmetics, it is worth purchasing a travel kit once and for all: nothing will spill from compact reusable bottles, and you will easily fit into the rules for transporting liquids. You can do without liquids at all: buy a solid shampoo, which can also replace shower gel. It lasts for a long time, and a small tin box is required for storage and transportation.
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The main types of garbage bags
The assortment of garbage bags is impressive in its variety. Today you can buy bags of various sizes (from 20 to 500 liters), color, shape and design, with handles, ears, ties and even a “tasty” aroma. In addition, manufacturers produce garbage bags specifically for:
- Household waste. The bags are very thin and small in volume (up to 60–120 liters), but at the same time they have decent strength and carrying capacity. However, it is not recommended to carry weights and sharp objects in them. Traditionally used in everyday life, in enterprises, in offices, institutions of various types for the collection and transportation of waste.
- Construction waste. For manufacturing, high-pressure polyethylene film is used, which provides the products with maximum strength. Such bags perfectly withstand a large weight of construction waste, materials with sharp edges and large dimensions. Not a single construction site or repair can do without such reliable and capacious packages. In addition, bags with a volume of 60-250 liters are perfect for collecting garbage in public places, they are installed in waste bins on city streets, used in cafes, restaurants, medical institutions, etc.
- Special bags for production waste have special characteristics (increased elasticity of the film, its strength, resistance to chemicals, mechanical stress, etc.). They are used exclusively for disposal at food, chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries.
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My usual shopping trip
It may seem that we are just possessed. But although the principle of zero waste really means a lot to us, there is no question of any fanaticism ... no longer. At first it may seem that all this is too complicated, but today I can no longer imagine how it was possible to go shopping differently. I will describe here for clarity my typical Friday departure.
My husband and I have one car for two. I usually have it on Fridays when the farmers' market is open, so it’s easier to leave the shops later that day.
I got three large cloth bags (no longer needed): one for the market and a couple for the store. The market bag with fruit nets and one of the shopping bags with pouches, crayons, pillowcase and bakery order code are stored in the machine. The third we keep at home near the shopping list so that we can put washed cans, containers, bags and nets there as they empty. Dairy containers and egg cartons await the return to the store.
On Fridays, I take this bag and both lists with me in my car.I definitely check if at least five liter containers are in place: for raw meat, fish, two
types of cheese and gastronomy. I put everything I need for the farmers' market in the appropriate bag.
To save time and gasoline, all the products on the list are numbered according to the stops on my route, starting from the farthest point. I try to make right turns prevail on the way - my husband adopted this practice from efficient logistics companies. Gradually deleting items from the list, I get closer to the last three points: the market, the health food store and the library.
At the market, taking the right bag, I go straight to my favorite vegetable counter (the vegetables should be at the bottom of the bag), then I go for the fruit and, finally, I fill the egg trays. If I come across berries in baskets, I put them in mesh bags and return the baskets to the sellers. Here I am usually guided not so much by the list as by the freshness and the price, and I take whatever I like per week.
At the health food store, I first return the yogurt and milk jars I took from the same place, and wrap the check around a credit card so that I don't forget to punch it at the checkout. In the bakery department, I order “ten unpacked loaves” - our weekly rate.
Then I go to fill the containers with grated cheese (it is cheaper because it is made from scraps), pickles, sausages, raw meat and fish. In the meantime, they are being filled, I take glass bottles with yogurt and milk and a piece of butter wrapped in waxed paper. I fill in the rest of the cans and bags according to the list. Sometimes vegetables that are not on the market are added to this (for example, a bunch of spinach) or loose baked goods (croissants).
The circle of the store closes in the bakery section, where ten warm loaves are already ready to fill the pillowcase. The smell of warm bread from childhood tickles my nose as I move to the checkout. First, heavy containers are sent to the tape (they will go to the bottom of the bags), then the bags and at the end - bread. Here you need to get a piece of paper with a code from the bakery and a check wrapped around a credit card. The cashier weighs the goods by subtracting the tare weight and glass deposit. I never take a check, pay by card and finally go home with a short stop at the library.
So, I shop in the healthiest parts of the store, bypassing counters with ready-made refined food in a variety of packages. The only wrapper that gets to our home is from butter. At home, after unloading the car, I put the containers, jars and vegetables in the refrigerator, cut the loaves in half and freeze them in a second pillowcase, pour cereals and groceries from the bags into the jars and fill the vase on the table with fruit. Dirty bags and nets are sent to the washing machine, lists are recycled, and bags are sent to their usual places in the house and car. Ready!
Back to the trash bags
Whatever one may say, garbage bags are still a convenient thing in everyday life. Therefore, the British company Symphony has developed a new material - biodegradable polyethylene. It includes a special composition d2w (TM), due to which polymers are destroyed after 3 years from the date of their production, and not after 1000 years, like ordinary polyethylene.
Only 1% of the d2w (TM) mixture added to the new plastic changes everything, and you don't have to worry about the consequences - flying bags, crumpled bottles, disposable dishes on the city streets.
But there is a catch. Some experts from Greenpeace believe that only 10% of plastic waste with d2w (TM) additives rots, and 90% crumbles under the influence of natural factors into the smallest dust particles. Dust particles get into the soil, into plants, into the body of animals imperceptibly in the form of a powder. But their influence is similar to what we know about plastic bags - they also kill living beings, destroy the environment.
In addition, during the decomposition of bioplastics, decomposition products - methane, carbon dioxide - are released into the air, which enhances the "greenhouse effect".
