[debbietownhead]

We are now using in excess of 2 tonnes of feed per month.  Does anyone have any ideas now to get rid of the bags?  Solway will take them at a cost I think of £7 per large poly bag.   However as money is always tight does anyone have any better ideas.
Debbie
 

[Berkshire Boy]

Don't buy your feed in bags, simple 

[hughesy]

Can you get it in paper bags and bung them in the compost heap?

[robert waddell]

save them up for 5Th of November and celebrate in style

[Sbom]

Buy it in a big ton bag, usually slightly cheaper aswell

[darkbrowneggs]

Might Freecycle produce a responce, or are you allowed to take them in for re-cycling at the tip?

[oaklandspigs]

We are mainly bulk, but our sheep feed ones go to the local allotment, where they love them.
 

[Sylvia]

People will collect them for bagging up manure. I drop my surplus off to a roadside veg. stall who can't get enough of them.

[debbietownhead]

Thanks for your replies so far. 
Firstly I am looking out for a second hand silo and have previously asked on this forum about this  with only 1 reply but nothing positive.  A silo would save at least £100 per tonne in feed but cant currenty justify the outlay.
We cant get the food in paper bags or in 1 tonne bags.  We already bag up well rotted manure in them for friends gardens in the spring but prefer to use the manure on the fields.  Have tried burning them but it just ends up as a big plastic mess on the ground and is not environmentally friendly. 
Getting through 150 a month......................
Keep going with your ideas please!
 
Debbie

[princesspiggy]

a neighbour up here sells them full of firewood for £5.
can u not get the feed blown into a shed?

[Hassle]

I understand cost is important but a second hand silo may not be as cost effective as a new one, a new one will have a guarantee of 25 years.

[smallholder in the city]

We use ours as a weed suppressant cover around the new trees we're planting. They also make quite good planters if you roll the tops down a bit and cut some drainage holes in the bottom, you can turn them inside out so they are plain. You've probably got too many to use them personally for that/ may not be greenfingered but local gardeners/allotmenters might be interested.

[Hassle]

Most of the big supermarkets have recycle bins for there plastic bags .. I normally slip a few in there 

[princesspiggy]

someone on here sold them at carboot sales - 10 for a £1   

[bangbang]

Builders use them to get rid of rubbish - maybe some of your local contractors would take them.
I use ours all the time -  cos the're strong and a decent size unlike the crap rubble sacks that
you can buy.