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Jul 2019
8:00pm, 17 Jul 2019
40,142 posts
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alpenrose
We had the blue (turquoise) and white set too. Mum used the saucers as cats plates for years and we found side plates underneath house plant pots. We probably chucked them when we cleared out the house.
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Jul 2019
8:03pm, 17 Jul 2019
20,844 posts
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Lizzie W
Oh, they're tooth mugs!
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Jul 2019
8:46pm, 17 Jul 2019
4,885 posts
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Wine Legs
I think my parents still have the orange and yellow stuff we've had all my life. That turquoise is quite nice!
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Jul 2019
10:04pm, 17 Jul 2019
376 posts
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Turtlemama
For the turtle's forthcoming birthday I was going to order compostible plates and cups, or use bamboo / banana leaf based stuff. Luckily the boathouse has their own stuff they're happy for us to use (they also have solar power, compostible loo etc). In previous years I've used non-plasticised paper plates.
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Jul 2019
10:32pm, 17 Jul 2019
3,455 posts
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run free
Round up of parties and tableware:
- Ask everyone to BYOR
- Rent from a company that will lend you all the tableware & they clean it all up after
- Use what ever is in the house - including the take away containers
- Include the camping gear
- Include jars like nutella - as is currently the fashion when you go to drink a juice in a cafe
- Melamine (to clean tea stains try using toothpaste / create a bicarb paste)
- Borrow from the neighbours
- Could go for compostible tableware but if your council has a WTE (Waste to Energy Incinerator) plastic is actually better
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Jul 2019
10:37pm, 17 Jul 2019
3,456 posts
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run free
Day 18: Besides reusable bags (covered on day 1), what do you carry in your everyday bag to reduce using other single-use disposable (often plastic) anything in your daily work life? (e.g. take away coffee, take away breakfast from your local cafe, etc)
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Jul 2019
11:00pm, 17 Jul 2019
1,328 posts
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Silvershadow
Water bottle, coffee mug, fork and teaspoon. On the rare occasion I go out for cocktails I'll take a metal straw.
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Jul 2019
11:10pm, 17 Jul 2019
20,957 posts
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Red Squirrel
Folding steel cutlery set inc wooden chopsticks, coffee cup which doubles up as take-away scraps container, brown paper bag with rubber band.
Any incidental shopping on way to/home often goes in loose. My bags usually got bits of onion skin skulking around in the bottom.
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Jul 2019
11:11pm, 17 Jul 2019
20,958 posts
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Red Squirrel
Whoops, missing apostrophe: bag's
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Jul 2019
11:34pm, 17 Jul 2019
6,070 posts
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WA
I have a metal water bottle, coffee mug, spoon and fork in my car. I also carry a hot water flask and soap to wash my hands between visits
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Reusable/collapsible water cups
Oct 2024