Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Jul 2019
8:13am, 12 Jul 2019
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Garfield
Hubby and I picked up some lightweight collapsible cups (as described by RH) from a running shop outside of Antwerp for our future use.
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Jul 2019
9:38am, 12 Jul 2019
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Wine Legs
Rosehip, the RSPB at Sandy has big bins full of seed that you can fill paper bags with.
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Jul 2019
12:43pm, 12 Jul 2019
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cackleberry
Our local garden center does loose bird seed. Maybe yours does too? Going to start taking my own own tubs to the shops and maybe even the curry house. We have zillions of them! I also use them for my packed lunch, freezing leftovers, as just a tub to put 'stuff' in temporarily. We finally have a compost bin, only just started though. I might ask my friend if she'll make me some mesh bags for veg shopping in exchange for something. She is handy with a sewing machine, it would take me a week to make a bag. I still seem to have tones of recycling, our blue wheelie bin is totally full every fortnight, I'm not actually sure where it all comes from... We are lucky to have good butchers in town, a fishmonger twice a week on the market and a grocer also on the market. We have 2 independent deli shops, but they're very expensive. We also have a zero waste shop in the next town over (10 miles) but I've only squinted through the window so far. Cleaning products are bought in bulk via my OH work, but they're all main brand stuff and come in plastic bottles. Of course, I could take them to the zero waste shop but this requires a level of organisation I am yet to achieve... |
Jul 2019
1:05pm, 12 Jul 2019
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Rosehip
I hadn’t tried the RSPB as I assumed I’d need to mortgage the house  I was buying loose from G&Ms, but it had got more expensive than online and not so much choice as there used to be
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Jul 2019
2:11pm, 12 Jul 2019
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Red Squirrel
I expect the carton wasn't recycleable RF. Think the shake was prob Alpro. Re: takeaways, I've got 2 tiffin tins and sometimes take the smaller one to work with my lunch in. |
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Jul 2019
2:18pm, 12 Jul 2019
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Red Squirrel
Frank Water comes in glass bottles. Although I don:t buy water as I filter my own tap stuff, the bottle is useful to go in the side pocket of a Fjallraven rucksack, which is too small for most standard water carriers.
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Jul 2019
8:47pm, 12 Jul 2019
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run free
Rosehip what is the silicon bottle that you can fill with gels and do you make your own gel?
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Jul 2019
8:56pm, 12 Jul 2019
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Rosehip
I don't use gels much and certainly don't have a chance to make my own, but I saw these when someone said they filled them with a peanut butter jam mix! https://www.wiggle.co.uk/gu-energy-bulk-serve-flask/?lang=en&curr=GBP&dest=1&sku=100332106&kpid=100332106&utm_source=google&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Shopping+-+All+Products&utm_medium=base&utm_content=mckv spjryXFMk_dc mcrid 295292024608 mkw mmt mrd 100332106uk mslid &mkwid=spjryXFMk_dc&pcrid=295292024608&prd=100332106uk&pgrid=60972124962&ptaid=pla-522570318471&gclid=CjwKCAjw36DpBRAYEiwAmVVDMErdOnGxp5qLyTRmhcCXz1LU7ylabN9eqSBOqoIklaV6pYHxBuTxoBoCQgUQAvD_BwE |
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Jul 2019
9:29pm, 12 Jul 2019
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Rosehip
wiggle.co.uk
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Jul 2019
11:02pm, 12 Jul 2019
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WA
This may sound daft, but I hadn't realised tech t-shirts contained plastic. I don't know what I thought they were.
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