Yellow Baggies

[Fulvio]

Y'know those round TUIT things we never seem to have enough of?

Well, when I got the red and orange $10 baggies, it seems I didn't have enough of them.

I just sort of left them in their bags, figuring I'd get to them in due course.

Well, I just managed to finally get to them...

....and I was horrified to discover that all the bags are yellowed, and a couple of them have quite cloudy toned coins in them!

AAAAAAaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!!!

So, what I've now done, that I should have done when I first received them, is I've put each one in a ziplock bank bag, taped over one hole, used a vacuum to suck most of the air out, and taped over the other hole.

Then, because I really HAVE learned the LDPE lesson, I put the whole lot in a clear BoPP bag, sucked the air out of that, and sealed it shut. Its not perfect, but its a damn sight better than it was. I may grab a chip packet and seal this bag inside that (and label it, obviously) as well.

Better late than never, right? :dodgy:

Take this as a warning, and check YOUR baggies right now, just in case.

[Unicorn]

...... sounds bad McDuck

When I first read the thread title .... oddly I had an image of you in some loose fitting canary coloured daks .... (insert sigh of relief and play theme music).

[Fulvio]

loose fitting canary coloured daks

You mean like this?

[Unicorn]

:laugh2: .... I was thinking more Bay City Rollers Tartan .....

[Fulvio]

:laugh2: .... I was thinking more Bay City Rollers Tartan .....

Heh, yeah, but Harry Styles has no style, y'know?

[trout]

It may be time that you hunted down that lost vacuum sealer Mate :ok:
Or there may be not much we can do about it, Remember the hologram $1 in the 2004 Proof set

[Fulvio]

http://www.ampacet.com/faqs/yellowing-and-pinking-white-pe-pp/ shows the chemistry behind LDPE yellowing.

And I think the culprit may have been Titanium Dioxide in the tissue paper these things came packed in. At least that's the only suspect I haven't already eliminated, other than the air itself.