Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Jun 2019
10:42am, 11 Jun 2019
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Garfield
On the train once, I asked a man (who had left the paper bag for his croissant in the luggage rack) if he was planning to throw it out... If I hadn't asked, he would have left it there. Slovenly people. He glared at me. I find there's so much rubbish strewn about the UK streets and countryside compared with other countries. I worked in a bulk food/health food shop years ago (1990-2 - some people reused old plastic bread bags for their purchases. They would also bring in their own containers for peanut butter (we weighed the containers and put a sticker on their jar/plastic container for future reference). Some even made their own fabric bags for their purchases. |
Jun 2019
11:36am, 11 Jun 2019
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SteveCRunner
I went into a supermarket that will also make up a sandwich or baguette from a salad bar. I saw they had sliced cheese unwrapped so I asked to buy some cheese. "Over there" was the answer, pointing to an aisle of plastic-wrapped packs. "No, I prefer not to buy plastic" I said. After a quick consultation about the unwrapped slices with a superior I got "No, sorry, we can't sell the slices." Grrr.
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Jun 2019
11:54am, 11 Jun 2019
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run free
Have been asking schools to adopt areas to look after and have just managed to convince my company we need to adopt a part of the Thames to keep it clean 
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Jun 2019
12:03pm, 11 Jun 2019
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Garfield
Result! I have a friend living nearby who does rubbish picking runs a few times a week.
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Jun 2019
12:18pm, 11 Jun 2019
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RunningRonnie
I never buy cups of coffee. Have a decent coffee machine and good quality travel mugs. Fill that in the morning and drink on the way to work. I got a soda-stream machine and stopped buying sparking water entirely. I drink fewer cans of Diet Coke now too. Stopped using liquid hand wash and bought nice bars of soap from Provence markets. My veg comes like this every week: |
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Jun 2019
2:01pm, 11 Jun 2019
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run free
Nice one RR and Garfield. Garfield - think we need to go back to go forward & need to value our resources better. Steve - if your local supermarket has a cheese counter, check if you can purchase portions of cheese & use your own container. Everywhere on the continent allowed me to do this except for Italy |
Jun 2019
2:11pm, 11 Jun 2019
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halfpint
A friend started a FB group called Paws on Plastic which encourages dog walkers to pick up 2 pieces of plastic per walk. Most fill a poo bag minimum each day (they reuse the bag and recycle the contents where possible).
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Jun 2019
3:40pm, 11 Jun 2019
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Garfield
My dad set a good example of reusing things - glass coffee jars used to store his nails in his workshop. He had rows of them with different sized nails on a shelf!
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Jun 2019
5:25pm, 11 Jun 2019
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Non-runner
That’s good Garfield, they used to say you knew you had grown up when you had a drawer full of bits of string because they “might come in”. I use old running shoe laces as ties around the garden. Not much contribution to climate change I know but they do the job and save a purchase.
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Jun 2019
5:55pm, 11 Jun 2019
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K5 Gus
Here's the iPlayer link to last night's BBC1 program, have a watch if you missed it, it's shocking ! bbc.co.uk I naively thought I was doing good putting plastics in the recycling, but if that's what's happening to them then would it actually be better putting them in the landfill bin ? It's a genuine question which I have absolutely no idea about - Are our UK landfill sites better "managed" ( ie avoiding stuff "escaping" into rivers and therefore the oceans ) and therefore better than recycling stuff getting shipped and dumped in Malaysia where it's just left to seep into the rivers etc ? Or was that all a bit over-dramatised and only a minority of stuff ends up like what was shown ? It's so difficult to know what is actually happening.............. Yes, I know the answer is not to buy plastic in the first place..........
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