Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Jun 2018
3:13pm, 6 Jun 2018
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Wriggling Snake
I buy my fruit and veg at a greengrocer. Personal service. Choose what you want. Local. Cheaper. Not a plastic bad in sight. I have always done this. I buy just enough so that almost nothi g gets thrown away. I think I must be 30 years ahead of the curve or perhaps just old fashioned. Furthermore I am a man. |
Jun 2018
6:21pm, 6 Jun 2018
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Red Squirrel
Both Snake. I am old fash and ahead of curve too. I've been getting the same organic bag for years. If I ever need to go to a greengrocer to top up, I'm sure staff refer to me as "the spaniel" behind my back. I sniff all my fruit.
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Jun 2018
8:42pm, 6 Jun 2018
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Wine Legs
I'm pretty good at being familiar with selecting good fruit & veg. It's not so easy when it's swathed in plastic. I haven't found a decent, convenient greengrocers near us either. We do get a weekly veg box though, which limits what we buy veg-wise from the supermarket.
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Jun 2018
11:20pm, 6 Jun 2018
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run free
**waves** Great to see you Wiggling :D Always good to see men on this thread who are interested in being sustainable 
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Jun 2018
11:45pm, 7 Jun 2018
3,132 posts
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run free
The Welsh Coastal Path will be setting up water fountains. Bliddy brilliant: bbc.co.uk |
Jun 2018
9:27am, 10 Jun 2018
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alpenrose
Good news at airports is that they seem to let you take empty bottles through in your hand luggage now and provide drinking fountains that you are able to refill your bottles from. I always hate having to buy their rip-off bottles after security.
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Jun 2018
11:43am, 10 Jun 2018
20,725 posts
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Red Squirrel
Finally! I've been campaigning for water fountains to be brought back in my home city for years. As a long-distance runner I can't take enough with me on hot days and end up having to buy more along the way.
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Jun 2018
5:01pm, 10 Jun 2018
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Silvershadow
I’ve posted in my other blog about shampoo. stitchedinsilver.blogspot.com
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Jun 2018
6:21pm, 10 Jun 2018
14,635 posts
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Carpathius
My hair is finally getting used to shampoo bars although it doesn't fall in nice curls anymore after washing It's taken weeks and weeks for my hair not to look and feel awful. The thing that helped was buying a solid conditioner bar from Lush, but I disagreed with their recent police campaign (not the outcome they are supposedly after, but the terrible and misleading execution) so am very ambivalent about going back. |
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Jun 2018
6:22pm, 10 Jun 2018
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Carpathius
I've never made soap or shampoo SS, it is fairly easy? The bar I use is a rosemary/lavender one and quite expensive to get hold of.
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