I use Ikea bags for weeding. The one used instead as a laundry bag, and therefore subjected to heavier loading, has not died. The gardening ones have not had Too Many prickly things in them, and one of them has been sat outside in occasional direct sunlight for most of the year and has not died either. As someone else has already said, definitely not waterproof though.
You want to be a bit careful with buying buckets, because we've got one of the 'builders buckets' kind and it's great in that it's slightly flexible and droppable and so on, but makes up for it by being surprisingly heavy. And a lot of the lighter ones crack if you look at them funny (and it is a given that the handle will fall off and need to be replaced with a bit of rope plus short section of alkathene pipe as a handhold, but normal people apparently don't have access to random bits of pipe that they found lying around, so rope-only handles it is).
I am also unimpressed with how it's not really possible to make a good rope handle for miscellaneous plastic trugs; I've got a couple of vague ideas that would probably both be more effort than they were worth, and significantly reduce the waterproof volume of the trug.
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Date: 2020-12-12 02:05 am (UTC)You want to be a bit careful with buying buckets, because we've got one of the 'builders buckets' kind and it's great in that it's slightly flexible and droppable and so on, but makes up for it by being surprisingly heavy. And a lot of the lighter ones crack if you look at them funny (and it is a given that the handle will fall off and need to be replaced with a bit of rope plus short section of alkathene pipe as a handhold, but normal people apparently don't have access to random bits of pipe that they found lying around, so rope-only handles it is).
I am also unimpressed with how it's not really possible to make a good rope handle for miscellaneous plastic trugs; I've got a couple of vague ideas that would probably both be more effort than they were worth, and significantly reduce the waterproof volume of the trug.