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QUESTION: Does anyone know the real deal about vacuum cleaner bags in most
conventional cleaners? Why hasn't someone developed a line of reuseable
bags, so consumers would have a choice of using these. It seems to me
that there is significant waste involved with throwing out filled bags,
besides the expense consumers incur. Is there some technical reason why
these bags are not reuseable? Are independent companies not allowed to
sell replacement bags for the major manufacturers (Hoover, Sharp, Eureka,
etc.)?
I understand that this is significant additional profit for Vacuum
companies, but is this the only reason reuseable replacement bags are not
available?
Thanks to any inventors who may have investigated this, and could
respond....
ANSWER: Well, I suppose this is equivalent to a question of "why isn't anyone
offering carbide headlights for cars?" or "why isn't there a toaster you
put on top of your stove?" or, perhaps more to the point, "why isn't
there a reusable cloth diaper instead of disposables?"
ALL vacuum cleaner bags used to be reusable, from the invention of the
vacuum cleaner. My mother had several vacuums with reusable bags. People
hated the dusty, messy job of emptying and cleaning them so much that
the market forced the disposable bag into the forefront. You can still
find vacuum cleaners without disposable bags (I bought one at Mongomery
Ward about 10 years ago), but you have to look because they just didn't
sell as well as the other sort.
If you asked people if they think it's ecologically a good idea to reuse
vacuum cleaner bags, most will agree. If you expect them to actually do
it, that's another story.
There are re-useable bags for most cleaners.
Have you emptied a bag on a windy day? Are you allergic to dust?
Disposables are the way to go for people with a low dirt volume
and can toss a bag out every couple of months.
People with high dirt volume need re-useable bags. I have a
high volume dirt house - 2 cats, a big dog, a parrot, 2 budgies,
in short - dust city.
We have a VAX 11/780 (computer/vac joke - just a VAX) and it needs
cleaning every week.
I have a filter built into my PC which I have to empty every month
because of the airborne dirt. It is a nightmare.
Forget the bags, design and manufacture a single-height cartridge
for PCs. I had to build my own intake filter cos you can't buy them.
Actually, I have two designs for PC filters if anyone wants to
consider building them. A lot of people don't realise that their
PC's cooling is being stunted by using these cheap PC cases
and a lot more people don't realise how much dirt is being sucked
in through drive bays, CD slots and card slots, or how much dirt is
gathering inside the PC.
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