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Jul 2019
10:09pm, 11 Jul 2019
20,946 posts
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Red Squirrel
Yes I do Lizzie ... and going back to Run Free's earlier question about cooked waste ... I don't have any. I take leftovers, however small, to work and if I make a big curry or chilli and there's too much, I call 2 local friends and ask them to come round to collect some and bring their own containers. If they're away, there's another couple living close by who would also call and collect.
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Jul 2019
10:16pm, 11 Jul 2019
3,436 posts
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run free
Love it RS. Currently am trying to chill with my parents being here as they keep buying stuff in packaging. Went with my mother shopping, and put everything back - much to her annoyance so now she goes without me.
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Jul 2019
10:23pm, 11 Jul 2019
3,437 posts
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run free
Round up of Bin-Liners:
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Lots of alternatives if you have rubbish but be aware there is a carbon / water / food security cost. Reusing packaging and free "charity" bags that are put through the door.
Decrease the size of your bin and you can reuse the food packaging as bin bags. I use a large yoghurt pot that the rest of my household had to get used to!!! Wrap food waste in newspaper if you still receive newspapers..... tip visit your elderly relative who probably still gets a newspaper.
If your rubbish is mainly packaging - speak to WA - who is making something from Eco-Bricks....would be cool to see a shed 
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Jul 2019
10:41pm, 11 Jul 2019
3,438 posts
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run free
Days 12-14: With the weekend coming up, races are a plenty. Think this one needs a good debate so giving 3 days for it. How would you reduce the amount of waste generated at a run event?
Run/Cycle events are a festival of single-use plastic:
1. Would you accept a technical t-shirt? And it is often in packaging.
2. What about gels? Cups? Bottle of drink? Crisp packets? Snacks? Choccie bar? ....and the ribbon from the medal...and sometimes even the medal which is often wrapped in plastic packaging. In fact as stuff is bought in bulk, they are wrapped in more plastic packaging.
3. If you're a big event you will use more single-use plastic to keep stuff together for the hydration points. Then there are the bottles of water used to provide hydration; the disposable plastic plates that food is put into; the disposable plastic bowls for the sweeties......
4. The single-use plastic cable ties that are normally left on the floor after an event
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Jul 2019
10:54pm, 11 Jul 2019
6,051 posts
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WA
Thanks RS, that's interesting and helpful.
I hadn't even considered the plastic used in an event.
I think the balance between *time* and *sustainability* is difficult. Some events have big water carriers, but you need to stop and fill up, as opposed to grabbing a bottle/ cup to drink and dump.
Gel packets infuriate me. If you can be bothered to carry the gel, why can't you carry the litter?
Tech t-shirts don't need to be in plastic. I'm sure I've done big events where you just rock up at the relevant *size* and are handed a t-shirt.
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Jul 2019
11:02pm, 11 Jul 2019
3,439 posts
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run free
The technical t-shirt is plastic. Think London is one of the few events that gives a cotton t-shirt
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Jul 2019
11:09pm, 11 Jul 2019
20,947 posts
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Red Squirrel
1. I've had great cotton t-shirts from races such as The Grizzly.
2. Gels - I've often wondered about making a sweet potato baked strip for energy in training and races. I tried this a few times and it was OK. Home made gels are a possibility and the point is, how do you store them? Oooh, difficult one; I need to think about it. Choc bars - try to buy paper /foil wrapped. Finish line snacks - vegetable samosas? Our local sikh eatery makes loads and delivers them in cardboard boxes lined with thick paper and covered with the paper. Ditto some nice home-made energy ball type things on big paper plates. People just take and eat. I think it was the Grizzly again which gave us choc soya milk shake in cartons at the finish.
Plastic bottles are the big issue. If cups were used, people would have to stop to drink, but then that's the only answer. Stop and gulp - compostable cups maybe as some people will run with them and chuck them to one side.
I know races rely on donations for goody bags, so organisers need to promote the plastic-free theme to contributors.
I'm not sure how practical it is to ask people to bring water bottles to get water at the finish, there'd probably be no-where to put them while they ran. Back to compostable cups I guess.
Back to string instead of cable ties. Get scouts in to get their knot badges.
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Jul 2019
2:09am, 12 Jul 2019
3,440 posts
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run free
Would suspect the milk shake carton is a tetra pak which will have a combination of plastic and paper and sometimes aluminium.
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Jul 2019
6:07am, 12 Jul 2019
13,044 posts
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Rosehip
RS - you can get silicone bottles (plastic tops) that are designed to fill with gel, squeeze out a mouthful at a time.
running with a cup is becoming more common, lightweight silicone collapsible ones are required for some ultras and water always used to be put out in plastic cups not bottles. The two ideas should be able to go together.
Does anyone know if it is possible to buy wild bird foods in paper sacks? I was disappointed by the amount of plastic that came with an online order.
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Jul 2019
6:18am, 12 Jul 2019
5,271 posts
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Nightjar
Rosehip, it is but you’d have to ask the supplier. I got bulk lot and the 12kg bag of sunflower hearts was in a paper sack. The rest not. That was garden wildlife direct.
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