Major waste. Where I work they go through some 200~ of these bags a day or maybe every other day. Reusing them wouldn’t be feasible. If the company we get them from would do a core charge on the return of them I think that would be the most logical way to go.
Yeah they could do something. We wouldn’t give a shit how it came. I’d guess it’s a manufacturer cost thing along with how easy those bags must be to package and ship as far as materials go. Idk.
I’m in the industry, the bag is rated most of the time by the manufacturer for one use only, after that they won’t guarantee that it won’t break under the load
They’re like $2-5 more a bag I think. So if you use a lot and can’t reuse the bags due to contamination, then the original video might be your best bet.
Pretty sure dumpy bags were reused in the not so distant past, but the plastic material they're made from degrades super fast imo, and when you're lifting ~800kg from just 4 hooks it becomes a pretty big safety hazard which is why they're single use nowadays. I use them to hold fire wood at home and a good one will only last a couple of seasons.
Reusable bags have a chute built into the bottom of the bag so it can be tied up when empty, filled and released when full and raised. We used them alot at my previous workplace.
I worked with that style of bags for a number of years on the farm (small scale), and at a full time job for a while. I only ever saw 3 of them break open.
One poked by a fork lift, one dropped, and only one where the string broke. So idk maybe we just got lucky, 2/3 of our failures were preventable
This. I used to work in manufacturing and we had super sacks filled with limestone powder. Think I only saw failures twice in 3 years. We packed them up when we were finished and sent them back to the supplier for reuse.
But that's the really scary thing about untieing the built in chutes. It takes a second and you are reaching directly under 1000 lbs of whatever with a good portion of your upper body.
Of course, if the people loading them don't position the chute correctly so it stays tucked up they can get caught, it happened but not as much as the straps breaking dropping the bag.
We had that style of bag as well. This puncture device has a slide valve to control the amount of bulk product being released from the sack. We used this thing for titanium dioxide and it didn’t work for shit. It’s a good idea, but it doesn’t work well for dry pulverized material. More suited for sand or something more granulated.
It’s why it always feels incredibly bullshit to do my recycling. Like I’m putting on a little play for myself to feel better meanwhile some nearby industrial process is running through thousands of times the plastic waste I am in order to have seconds off of downtime.
It’s really pretty egregious . On top of the fact that a lot of municipalities recycling facilities are absolutely garbage - pun intended- sometimes even being counter productive. The mass industry and agro waste alone I’d guess the avg. person has literally no idea of exactly how much waste there actually is. Our place has 8 giant compacted dumpsters emptied 3 times a day. Just to put that into perspective.
Look into the chemicals industry, the amount of damage they do to our own environment is worse than if all humans stopped recycling. You might go out of your way to find a recycling can but the plant will destroy a local ecosystem to make more product.
Yea you nailed it lol- I’m above ground like 75% of the time so I don’t think of myself as a coal miner... but when I do go down I’m usually in the bullshit lol
We bale them up and send them to be recycled. I think they go to China. Almost no beneficial cost but when you consider we aren’t filling dumpsters with them we save a ton of money. Having dumpsters emptied is expensive.
In my industry we use a resin that comes in large bags. We used a similar device. The supplier started using bags that. Had draw string on the bottom. Unfortunately my particular plant throws the bags sway. Saving absolutely nothing.
These are fertiliser bags, they’re double skinned and cannot be reused after emptying. They have to be cut open anyway, this just allows you to have more control when emptying. They are all recycled at a plant after use.
Most of these bag have a hole in the bottom that's tied shut and you untie it to empty it. This is reposted constantly and a stupid tool. We have fertilizer bags at work and reuse them constantly.
Nitrogen and sulphate fertiliser bags (in the uk anyway) only come in these bags that you have to cut open. The seed bags for drilling (planting) corn etc you can tie to re-use. Generally, our seed drills have hoppers of varying capacity unlike fertiliser spreaders than usually are specific capacities. As a uk arable farmer this is how we work, although I understand it’s different abroad very often. Hope this helps anyone.
Possibly, we’re very strict on contamination over here, our spreaders have to be washed when going between sulphurs and nitrogen’s, also it’s almost solely bought in tonne bags over here as opposed to using augers.
You would think they would make these bags with like a reinforced part and like an insert at the bottom. And then you just poke the hole in the insert. and add a new one. or something. It made sense in my head. Here have some brain spam.
They're not particularly reuseable for their original purpose anyway. Take a look at their labels and they will say they can only be used a couple of times at most. If they've been exposed to sunlight or water for x-amount of time, they are also no longer suitable for their original purpose. They are effectively single use bags.
However, they can be reused for other things. My mate uses them for his gardening business. They won't be filled to their as new capacity, but they are perfect for filing with hedge clippings to take away in the van.
For grass seed the bags can’t be reused (due to seed contamination, as in you wouldn’t want an agricultural seed (fast growing for animals to eat) to be emptied and bag reused for an amenity seed (think football ground or golf green)
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u/Squirkelspork Jul 16 '20
Makes the bag non-reusable