You might be able to buy polyethylene in the UK, but in industrial
quantities - they be unlikely to sell you one sheet, and, unless you can see
what you're buying, you could end up having bought the rigid stuff that's
used for protection in things like aluminium camera or gun cases and not the
squidgier stuff for a lace pillow. The places that sell it here are selling
to the trade, and you can't just walk in and buy it in small quantities off
the shelf like groceries. At one time we would have been able to get offcuts
from Sunseekers (who make the big luxury multi-millionnaires' sea-going
motor launches), but someone got greedy and staff were stopped from taking
any waste altogether.
Just as we don't have the same brands of detergent, stain removers, craft
shops, quilts shops, food and loads of other stuff. We do have Walmart
trading under the name ASDA, but they don't sell the same as Walmart in the
US. Because it's sold in the US doesn't mean it's available here or in other
countries - each has their own products available and way of doing things.
At least we have proper cheese :-).
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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