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Old 12-05-2008, 10:04 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Default Sainsbury's, plastic bags, check-outs, shopping, shop

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies View Post
I dug up an old pond the other day, which the people before me had put in place. They had put plastic bags under the proper lining. I doubt they had been there a 1000 years, but there wasn't much left of them.
An excellent point MKP.

There is little chance a Sainsbury's plastic bag given at the check-out would last 1000 years - they are so thin that some of those I have used to put my shopping in at the check-out have started breaking up before I even got out the shop.
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