[ballingall]

What do all of you do with your plastic feed sack's that sheep/cattle/poultry/dog/cat/goat food come in?

I always just end up taking mine to the skip, which seems a waste, when surely they can be recycled? Does anyone know of a recycling method for these?

The paper ones aren't so bad, the plain brown one's I sometimes use as weed control, and the brightly coloured ones are useful for starting the bonfire.

Anyone?


Beth

[Hermit]

A list of things I use empty feed sacks for....
Rubbish bags for the barn,
under gravel paths for weed stoppers,
Storing kindling etc.
But I use a few hundred for bringing peats off the hill! so I do save them all and use them. Hermit

[Roxy]

At the moment I am filling them up with free logs - the railway people have been cutting all the trees down, and I have climbed on to the embankment and enjoyed filling my sacks with logs and sticks!!

I also use a fair few to fill with compost and plant potates in.  When they are ready, I can just split the bag .....saves digging!!

I also have lots of cats, so empty cat food cans are stored in them until I can  get to the recycling place.

[Wizard]

Hello Balli This is NOT A SWEAR WORD Do you know round here they (50kg/1cwt) Plastic bags are as rare as Rocking Horse Sh1t.Every thing but every thing comes in 500kg.1 tonne bags or bulk.Even Toms Scotch  Accord Potato Seed was in 500 kg last year.That used to be a supply of hessian 1 cwt sacks.

[gavo]

Our local council recycling centre takes them and the plasticy hessian type ones aswell.

[CameronS]

All our animal feed comes in paper bags, is it just my area or do spillers only do paper

[MiriMaran]

I'm a gardener and use them for heavy waste, rubble, transporting manure.  Infact I never have enough bags.  The big white builders bags are very useful too.

[dixie]

I save them then give them to someone local thats bags up horse manure to sell!

[juliag]

last year i cut some holes in the bottom and planted some potatos in some, they worked beautifully! 

[Wizard]

Hello all Juliag I got some 1 tonne bags form Carl I cut off the bottoms and tied the string around the middleish toward the top This gave me a reinforced 18" tube I then sighted this where I wanted it on the gravel and folded the cut piece of the bottom under making a nice (Equivalent to a patio potato growing sack £12 for 3 in the local garden centers) for the price of TVM to Carl I also had some very useful 4ft x 16 ft pieces of woven weed prevention plastic sheet some I unstitced and had 4 ft squares and a lot of jolly good plastic string.Its a bit of a sod deciding which way to pull the string though it is easier to get muther to hold the bag and cut the sewing.But I found it all well worth while it assisted my spray can potato and tomato crop a lot This way is most economical on the soil compost requirements