Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Jul 2019
3:33am, 6 Jul 2019
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quimby
Wine Legs, your coloured wipes reminded me of this:  Going to try some Who Gives a Crap toilet rolls; they are twice the price of our normal Tesco own brand, but willing to give them a go. No room for a bidet in our bathroom. |
Jul 2019
5:55pm, 6 Jul 2019
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run free
Quimby - you can have bidets that are part of the toilet seat, or a hand held shower bidet which is basically part of the water pipe inlet to the toilet
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Jul 2019
6:09pm, 6 Jul 2019
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WA
We've building work going on at the minute. The builders must have seen my bag of plastic and half filled bottle, and have left all their plastic from packed lunches to add. One man's rubbish....
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Jul 2019
7:04pm, 6 Jul 2019
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Red Squirrel
I've always wanted a squat toilet. I think British ones are unhygienic with the rim and the seat. I'd be happy to use a bidet, spray or what they call a mandi in Indonesia - a long handled water carrier shaped like a small sauce pan.
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Jul 2019
4:30pm, 7 Jul 2019
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richmac
Love dipping into this thread. wet wipes, binned these off a few months ago, really don't miss them. They do nothing that a rag/cloth/brush with the right cleaning fluid can't do. Oh O was never a flusher. My next phase of reducing plastic use is going to be Bar shampoo and soap instead of bottles and shower gel. Also going to change to shaving soap instead of tins of foam, yes the tins are metal but the lids and nozzles are not. Going to give odour neutralising bags of charcoal a go instead of fabreeze in my sports gear drawers. |
Jul 2019
7:55pm, 7 Jul 2019
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Carpathius
I don't use wet wipes. A damp flannel does the same thing in virtually every instance I can think of.
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Jul 2019
8:03pm, 7 Jul 2019
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Velociraptor
I don't use wet wipes. I rarely used them even when my children were babies. The only situation in which I use wet wipes is when I clean surfaces or equipment with disinfectant wipes at work, which is, I believe, a requirement of CQC and in a small number of situations may be a worthwhile infection control measure.
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Jul 2019
9:03pm, 7 Jul 2019
6,024 posts
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WA
I don't use wet wipes, apart from those situations V'rap describes. We are given them for hand hygiene after seeing patients, but I carry a hot water flask and hand soap in the car.
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Jul 2019
12:00am, 8 Jul 2019
3,424 posts
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run free
Day 8: Cling film / saran wrap is used to cover plates/bowls as well as used in packaging to keep boxes of stuff together. What do you use instead of cling film / saran wrap?
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Jul 2019
12:06am, 8 Jul 2019
3,425 posts
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run free
I made Octy from perhaps 1/20th of the cling film the operations crew were throwing away at a running event with 18,000 runners and then re-wrapping products with new cling film instagram.com |
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