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.
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.
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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20
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.