Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Apr 2019
3:19pm, 29 Apr 2019
41,496 posts
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Velociraptor
Given the choice, I think I'd rely on hair removal alone rather than applying salt to hairy pits to minimise odour. (I stopped using pit-stick a while ago because I wasn't convinced I was any less smelly with it than without it, and haven't had any increase in complaints since stopping.)
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Jun 2019
9:44pm, 10 Jun 2019
1,301 posts
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Silvershadow
Anyone watching the plastic program on BbC1 at the moment?
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Jun 2019
9:54pm, 10 Jun 2019
13,691 posts
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Autumnleaves
We are 
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Jun 2019
9:58pm, 10 Jun 2019
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Silvershadow
Dreadful, recycling plastic collection bags in bails in Malaysia.
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Jun 2019
10:13pm, 10 Jun 2019
13,692 posts
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Autumnleaves
Much of that was deeply depressing. I was very shocked at the difference in price - I had always assumed that loose produce was cheaper!
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Jun 2019
10:25pm, 10 Jun 2019
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Silvershadow
I understand that the supermarket has to balance food wastage in the supply chain with reduction in packaging but 42% more expensive for loose produce is ridiculous. Do the really loose 42% of loose fruit and veg in transportation?
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Jun 2019
12:24am, 11 Jun 2019
3,381 posts
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run free
It is interesting that more produce on the continent is sold loose .....I saw food dispensers for pasta, nuts, cereals in a couple of supermarkets in France like Carrefour. Though still lots of green washing to wade through such as "paper bags are more ecological than plastic bags"; that compostable always means it can be home composted; organic cotton is better than plastic .... Seems we swap out one pollutant for another. The single-use alternatives to single-use plastic often have a higher carbon footprint, more resource hungry, in a landfill will not degrade and is still junk food to an animal if eaten when it becomes litter. Speaking of which, why is there is sooo much more litter in the UK countryside (well South West England anyway) than what I saw on the continent. It is shocking to see some of the countryside roads look like a Malaysian roadside. Need more people plogging / adopting areas. Hopefully the UK is now waking up with Waitrose trialing BYOR in Oxford bbc.co.uk Hope that people in Oxford make the trial work.... |
Jun 2019
8:39am, 11 Jun 2019
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Wine Legs
I think that the majority of people in the UK seem to think that these issues are someone else's problem or responsibility. Rubbish: someone else's responsibility. Packaging: someone else's responsibility. Recycling: someone else's responsibility. I feel like it is, in part, to do with the way the UK provides and does things for those that can't do it themselves. Such as a young woman deciding to get pregnant because she'll get her own house. And then when she can't afford to feed it, she'll get school meals for it, and payments for looking after it etc.. Extreme and controversial example, I know, but I am short on time to expand further! |
Jun 2019
9:56am, 11 Jun 2019
20,564 posts
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Lizzie W
Culture of entitlement, and rights not responsibilities.
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Jun 2019
10:24am, 11 Jun 2019
4,808 posts
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Wine Legs
yep, that's it.
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