Friday 4 December 2015

How To Recycle Airbags!

Not these safety devices

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But the sort of packaging that comes wrapped round parcels

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Bob’s been installing the new PA at UCF, and we seem to have a lots of parcels which include packaging arriving at the Manse lately. Bubble wrap is fine, brown paper is fine [see here] but until now, these rolls of inflated pillows have defeated all my efforts at recycling. I stand in the kitchen, with a skewer, puncturing each pillow, and then roll them up tightly and throw the plastic in the bin. Then this week I had a brainwave, and did some experimenting.

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The pillows have a definite seam along one edge, and they are separated by perforations. If you snip just below that seam with your kitchen scissors, and grasp firmly, you can pull off a whole strip along the top. Then separate along the perforations – and you have a whole stack of small plastic bags. Now all I have to throw away is that strip – and the bags will be ideal for the small items I’m selling at the Craft Fayre.

[Apologies for bad pictures- photographing transparent bags is hard]

3 comments:

  1. What a good idea, like you I had been puncturing them & then recycling. The small polybags are ideal for all sorts of things that can be used to top up the Christmas shoe boxes - sadly sometimes needed when people include inappropriate items or proscribed items which have to be removed - creating a gap, or when the box just isn't full. I collect such fillers all year, so an extra supply of free bags will be great. I already use the polybags that leaflets sometimes arrive in through the post. Thankyou for the tip, Vee x

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  2. I've been giving them to the children because barbie likes a air mattress lol.
    They like to jump on them and scare mummy!

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  3. That's a great recycling idea!

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