Bin Liners

Buy from a huge range of bin liners, bin bags and black sacks for all your waste disposal needs.

Bin liners are...

• Bags used to line bins, but more specifically...
• Polythene bags used to line the inside of dustbin
• Also known as bin bags, waste sacks or rubbish bags
• Used to catch rubbish when it is placed into a dustbin
• Great at keeping the interior walls of the bin clean, stain-free and smell-free
• Excellent at reducing odour levels when collecting and disposing of everyday rubbish
• Handy to use, providing quick and easy disposal of rubbish collected within the bin
• Easily sealed and disposed of when full - just remove the full bin liner from the bin, lift at the edges, grab a handful of polythene from either side and then tie in a knot above the middle of the bag. You can then transport the bin liner to your exterior dustbin or wheelie bin
• Available in a range of shapes to suit all types of bin, including pedal bins, swing bins, square bins, round bins, flip-top bins, brabantia bins or traditional lift-lid dustbins.
• Available in a range of sizes to suit any bin, big or small
• Available in traditional polythene or a range of biodegradable alternatives - perfect for gathering food waste, kitchen waste, composting materials or garden waste

Have your say about compostable bags

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The City of Dryden provides curbside yard waste assortment services all spring and drop. Brown paper compost bags will be collected complimentary of charge amid these times. View our Collection Calendar  or visit the News and Alerts Section of the City's website to see when the next yard waste assortment is scheduled. 

Ban plastic bags! But what about compostable bags?

The British Organics Recycling Association (AORA) welcomes the recent debate and discussions above more States banning single use plastic bags as well as the recent Government Meeting to investigate a national ban on plastic bags. What about the discussion on certified compostable bags?

1. BioBag 13 Gallon Compostable Rubbish Bags

FORID’s compostable trash bags are also tested to withstand at least 72lbs (33kg) of waste, are not easy to tear, and don’t leak when the wet waste is loaded.

MAISTIC Home Compostable Food Bags

Maistic home compostable food bags are certified home compostable meaning they are tested biodegradable and can be composted with food scraps in a well nourished compost bin at home. How to home compost correctly, please come by guidelines in books and online. The Maistic Food Bags don’t contain phthalates and Bisphenol A, F and S, nor other harmful chemicals or plasticisers used in normal plastics – simply because of the OK Compost Home certifications, that doesn’t enable normal plastics and their chemicals. Why? Because the certification and EU-standards behind it portrays what is allowed in compost for our fields and gardens – and those plastic chemicals don’t belong out there. The bag material is meant to decompose to make rich soil, not damage the soil. Compost is part of a biological lifestyle and superb for the environment and your health!

As a result, McPherson's launched Multix Greener last year, including compostable waste bags, recycled alfoil and degradable cling wrap. More recently, Multix Reuse Me has hit the shelves, featuring sandwich and manufacture bags that can be washed and re-used.

The model not only creates a none-waste system, it’s able to pay local farmers 75 per cent of the shopping price. On top of that, it uses electric delivery vans, paper bags and fully compostable carriers. That it plans to expand nationwide above the next couple of years is the cherry atop this ethically sourced cake.

Shoppers at Co-operative food stores are being offered compostable carrier bags (pictured) that can be used as liners for food waste bins. The bags have been trialled in several areas in England and is now being rolled out across 400 of its stores in 81 local authority areas where householders are required to use compostable […]

Look for the drop box and pop your card inside, one lucky emblem will receive 250 of these 100% compostable mailers!

ED-2027 Biodegradable & Compostable Bin Liners 27L

These 27L compostable bin liners are perfect for medium-sized stand alone or pull out bins. They contain corn starch, and now feature handles, making them easy to transport and robust.

The bin liner - a brief history

The bin liner is such a part of modern day life that you could be forgiven for thinking it was always there, but of course it wasn't!

In Canada in 1950 an inventor by the name of Harry Wasylyk from Winnipeg, Manitoba, alongside his colleague Larry Hansen - another Canadian, from Lindsay, Ontario - invented the first polyethylene bin liner, which was the colour green.

Of course, being a North American creation, the world's very first bin liner wasn't called a bin liner, or even a rubbish bag, but a garbage bag (that's rubbish, North America!).

Whilst obviously very clever chaps, Messrs Wasylyk and Hansen didn't quite spot the future direction for the humble bin liner and the fact that it would end up in millions of homes around the world, as the first bin liners were designed for commercial use rather than use at home.

Having sold the first bags to the Winnipeg General Hospital, Wasylyk and Hansen sold their invention to the Union Carbide Company, Lindsay, where they worked and the company saw their potential for future use. Union Carbide began manufacturing the first green garbage bags for home use that decade and the very first bin liners (or garbage bags) for home use went on sale in the late 1960s under the name Glad Garbage.

So if you like bin bags then you should be glad for Glad Garbage, even if you aren't glad that the name includes the term garbage. It's probably a better, or less rubbish, brand name than Glad Rubbish anyway, even if it sounds a bit rubbish to call rubbish garbage.

Make sense? Well, congratulations to Messrs Wasylyk and Hansen for their clever invention, which is anything but rubbish… or garbage for that matter. Here's to you sirs!

Bin liner types - one size does not fit all

What does the term 'bin liner' mean to you? What sort of bin springs to mind and, more importantly, what sort of bin liner or bin bag do you think of fitting inside that bin?

Those very questions will prompt a wide range of answers, depending on who you speak to, reflecting the huge variety of bin liners available to fit the broad and varied array of bins or rubbish receptacles out there.

Bin liners range from very small bags that fit mini pedal bins - the sort commonly found in bathrooms - or kitchen caddies made from biodegradable material that are used to collect food waste disposal, right up to industrial sized bags that fit in wheelie bins or large compactor bins used predominantly outside business premises.

In between, you'll find a broad range of bin bags and liners that cater for bins of all shapes and sizes, including:

• Traditional dustbins
• Pedal bins
• Swing bins
• Square bins
• Flip-top bins
• Push-top bins (e.g. Brabantia)
• Wheelie bins
• Food bins / Kitchen caddy
• Compost bins
• Compactor bin
• Recycling bins
• Public litter bins

Bin liners - a black and white issue

The vast majority of bin liners or bin bags - depending on which term you prefer to use - are made from either black or white polythene, although there is a huge range of colours available to meet various waste disposal needs (more details below).

When considering black or white polythene, a good rule of thumb for bin bags is that thin means white and thick means black. Of course this is not always true - the gauge of polythene used for both white and black polythene bin bags will vary - but more often that not, thicker bags are made of black polythene.

Bin liners made from white polythene include a range of bags to fit small bins for domestic use, such as pedal bins, swing bins or square bins. These bags are commonly made from thin, lightweight white polythene as they are designed to deal with light duty use - e.g. tissues, toilet rolls innards, pencil sharpenings etc.

The old-fashioned classic black bin bag is that used for your everyday rubbish, whether in your kitchen bin, an outside dustbin or just used loose to collect rubbish from a wide area, e.g. clearing up after a party.

The standard dimensions of a regular black bin bag are between approx. 85cm and 100cm long - approx. 34” to 39” - and between 64cm and 74 cm wide - approx. 25” to 29”.

More so than white bin liners, black bin bags come in a huge range of thicknesses, from the cheap and cheerful ultra-light price beater sacks at 80 gauge thick, to the ultra thick heavy duty bags, which are up to 350 or 400 gauge thick.

So you could be forgiven for thinking your choice of bin liner is a black and white issue, although this is not the case. Bin liners are available in a huge variety of colours. The coloured varieties tend to be slightly more expensive than the standard black variety, but they can be helpful in many other ways. Here is one of them...

Where to buy bin liners

Bin liner manufacturers and suppliers include:

Rubbish Bags
Discount Rubbish Bags lives up to its name, providing customers with a wide range of rubbish bags, waste sacks and bin liners at discount prices. Contains loads of information, giving you the very best opportunity to buy the right rubbish bag at discount prices.
www.discountrubbishbags.co.uk

Bin Liners
A very helpful website for any customer looking to purchase bin liners for any type of waste disposal. Featuring information on different types of polythene bin liner and eco-friendly alternatives, this website has your bin liner needs covered.
www.binliners.org

Bin Bags
Bin Bags is the website for all your bin bag needs. Whether you are shopping for traditional black waste sacks, bin liners or eco-friendly alternatives, this website will help you find the right bin bag for you.
www.bin-bags.co.uk

Black Bin Liners
Whatever type of bin bag or waste sack you are looking for, Discount Bin Liners is sure to help you make the right decision. From pedal bin liners to clinical waste disposal sacks and swing bin liners to wheelie bin bags, this site will help you get the right bin liners at great discount prices.
www.discountbinliners.co.uk

Wheelie Bin Liners
Discount Wheelie Bin Liners is a useful resource on bin liners, bin bags, waste sacks and eco-friendly bin liners. With bin liner news and a list of bin liner manufacturers, this is a bin liner website you don't want to miss.
www.discountwheeliebinliners.co.uk

What people in the street might say about compostable bags

Below are reviews of If You Care Food Waste Bags - 30 Pack by bodykind clients. If you have tried this product we would like to hear what you think so please leave a review .

Stout Ecosafe6400 48 gal. Compost Bags Stout UNP1003

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As part of our ongoing efforts toward green' procurement, plastic bags in UNICEF supplies are being replaced with a bio-compostable option, thereby reducing harmful waste. These bags become part of the soil or the water when discarded, without leaving plastic microparticles. While bio-compostable bags may cost more, the overall cost to the environment led to the recent decision to use this option.

EcoSafe? & Responsible? emblem Certified Compostable trash bags.

Yes, EcoSafe? Compostable Waste Bags are environmentally friendly. Unlike normal trash bags, compostable trash bags are compostable and are certified by BPI? (Biodegradable Products Institute).

If you dash out of compostable food bags, you can?contact Trafford council on our telephone to order more. Trafford council?will transport these to you complimentary of charge.

Please put nappies and wipes in the bin in a fully compostable nappy sack or bag, paper bag or plain carton box before you drop them off. This method we won’t have to send anything to landfill. Y ou can purchase commercially compostable waste bags here.

A one country/regional order/delivery enterprise! By Website or APP – order & delivery service that is very Carbon Dioxide conscious! Delivers ethically sourced food fresh from farm to your front door, utilising electric delivery vans , paper bags and fully compostable carriers.

"This is a necessary step in our ongoing commitment to tackling single-use plastics in Buckinghamshire and across 115 stores throughout our trading areas. We all have the power to make a contrast through the selections we make on a daily basis, and we hope that introducing compostable carrier bags in our Food stores will encourage people to make more sustainable shopping selections.

We are so excited to introduce our new certified 100% compostable mailers from Hero Packaging. Made from cassava roots and cornstarch, they are absolutely plant based, which means NO MORE PLASTIC! They smash down in 90 days in a compostable environment and leave none chemical residue.

Biobag Compostable Bin Liners with Handles - 20L - Roll of 20 Keep your kitchen clean and hygienic with these eco-friendly alternatives to the daily bin liner. Bio bag compostable bin liners use a plastic specially developed to be absolutely biodegradable while remaining robust enough to bare the load of yo Natural Collection Sale Price : £3.70     Product Category : Cleaning     Product ID : our telephone

Research & Resources

For more information on bin liners and bin bags, from manufacturing to methods of recycling, plus a list of polythene and biodegradable bags available, please visit:

PackagingKnowledge: The go-to knowledge site for the UK's polythene packaging industry, containing a huge wealth of information and useful articles on bin liners.

PlasticBags.uk.com: The UK's number one polythene packaging directory. List your products for free or browse through a fantastic selection of bin liners websites.

Goldstork: Search through specially selected information on bin liners in this free 'pick-of-the-web' directory.

Organise your recycling with coloured bin liners

If you want to separate your rubbish or waste to make it easier to dispose of, then coloured bin liners or bin bags could be just what you are looking for.

Today you can buy bin bags in a range of different colours to cater for your waste disposal needs, whatever they are.

If you just want to separate your rubbish into recyclables and non-recyclables, then why not choose black bin bags for your general waste and then green bin bags for your recyclable waste. You're doing your bit for the environment, so why not choose a green bin bag for your green waste?

The colour of bag you need may be determined by your local council or the company that collects your rubbish. Many people have wheelie bins of a certain colour that need to be filled with a particular type of waste but, in some instances, wheelie bins aren't a practical solution so coloured bin bags solve that problem.

Always check with your local council or the relevant organisation managing your waste disposal, but the following waste is often associated with the following colour of bin bag or wheelie bin:

• General (non-recyclable) rubbish - black
• Garden waste - green or brown
• Food waste - green or brown
• General recycling - green
• Plastic recyclables (bottles, trays etc.) - blue
• Aluminium (cans or tins) - grey or silver
• Hazardous waste (e.g. asbestos) - red
• Clinical waste (as used in hospitals) - yellow

Clear bin liners

There is one other 'colour' bin bag not referred to in the list of coloured bin liners. That is partly because it was worthy of a mention all on its own and partly because it doesn't really have a colour - it's see through!

Clear bin liners, otherwise known as see-through bin liners or transparent bin liners, are very useful for managing your waste disposal. They allow you to keep an eye on the rubbish being disposed of to ensure that no foreign materials other than those allowed are dumped in the bag.

Imagine an office where there is loads of paper recycling, but it has to be paper only being thrown away in the bag because it is all tipped straight into a giant shredder. Well what if someone accidentally threw their empty drinks can into the paper bin after finishing their drink?

If you were using traditional black bin liners you might never see that can, which could cause irreparable damage to a very expensive printer. But if you're using clear bin liners then, when you take the bin liner from out of the bin, it's very easy to take a quick look at the contents of the bin. Give it a quick shake about to check there's nothing trapped in the middle that shouldn't be there, and then you're done.

Clear bin bags are very popular in the workplace and are available in a range of thicknesses, to deal with light duty use such as paper, right through to super heavy duty bags for disposing of rubble and other hardcore materials on building sites etc.