The Bag Shortage

I’m a big fan of Climate Change, or stopping it, whichever is good. If they had a facebook profile, I’d be a fan. I am a good, modern, environmentally conscious person.

I buy green shit, I recycle more than I chuck out (and compost a lot too – I also get to wee on the compost, this is good for the world)

We also reuse bags, and even have special bags made out of rough stuff and have scoffed at getting plastic bags in supermarkets long before it was fashionable.

But now we have a problem. Like most households we have had a cupboard full of old carrier bags, the veterans of many a food shop packed tightly within a bag for life not able to be given the lease of life it so clearly hoped for.

These carrier bags have been used as the daily chores demand, for wrapping things up, discarding broken things, and, more recently, for getting rid of the used cat litter.

A carrier bag is the perfect size for this (apart from those ones with holes in to stop children suffocating) and can be tied up and shoved down the rubbish chute, cat wee forgotten about. (I should probably try and train him to wee on the compost)

But now there is a problem. We’ve run out of bags. Once thought of as unlimited natural resource has been plundered, the well is dry, the bag of life empty and alone.

What do I do now? A bin liner is far too big for the job, and surely defeating the object of using less plastic. I think I can buy special cat litter bags, but I’d rather go back to getting free carrier bags. Only I’d have to state at each purchase that these were for cat litter disposal only.

The last Tesco’s bag of the pile has just gone down the chute. I’ll keep you all posted with the next part of this thrilling tale when Buddy has shat adn pissed some more…