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Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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Jun 2018
8:30am, 24 Jun 2018
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beebop
The Wild Sage soaps look really good - the bathroom looks like an easy target for reducing plastic once I’ve worked my way through what’s already there. Luckily, the lidded plastic tubs (remains of a giant pot of ginger body cream/Christmas present body butters etc) will go off to the workshop to be used for sorting components, but there are quite a few tubes of hand/foot cream and so forth. This stuff builds up, I should have paid attention.
Jun 2018
6:16pm, 24 Jun 2018
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beebop
The really depressing thing about the situation is that this has been recognised as a problem for decades, and if governments around the world had jumped on it and made laws requiring all products to have an end-of-life plan built in from the start, we wouldn’t have this massive problem now.

‘Red tape’ can be very useful...
Jun 2018
8:24pm, 24 Jun 2018
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Wine Legs
I agree.
Jun 2018
3:03pm, 25 Jun 2018
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run free
Brill @Jeneolpy. You may find yourself poo-less instead & use the shampoo money to purchase something else :) + more time (no long showers washing out soap suds) + less water usage + less chemicals released in our environment :D

@BeeBop agree. And thank you to forums like @fetcheveryone that allows folk to share what they are doing to reduce plastic usage - potentially reduce waste generated, going towards a direction of zero waste. Woo hoo
Jun 2018
4:36pm, 25 Jun 2018
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Helegant
Thank you all for this thread.Some decisions look easier for people who live in towns and cities with greengrocers and local shops to hand. I've been giving serious thought to these issues and wish the major supermarkets would get on board. I think normalising a plastic-free approach is the way forwards.
My small contribution at present is avoid single-use, and not to throw away plastic until it has been reused so many times that it is no longer fit for purpose.
Jun 2018
5:39pm, 25 Jun 2018
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Sharkie
Look away now run free!

Right... perhaps some of you on this thread might care to join me in nominating run free for MOTM? She's a Fetchie who really DOES something and beside deserving the accolade it would help, if only in a small way, to present her ideas ( that many of us share) to Fetchworld in general?
Jun 2018
8:22pm, 25 Jun 2018
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Silvershadow
Decided to try the new Aldi for the first time this evening. I won’t be going back. EVERY SINGLE ITEM on my hurriedly reduced shopping list was wrapped in plastic. All the friut and veg except baking potatoes and turnips (which were not on my list) were entombed.
Jun 2018
8:36pm, 25 Jun 2018
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halfpint
It drives me nuts Silvershadow. Everything packaged and often in quantities I won't get through in time. I thought I read somewhere that either Aldi or Lidl were going to have all their fresh fruit/veg loose. Did I dream that?
Jun 2018
8:45pm, 25 Jun 2018
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Lizzie W
Aye, Sharkie
Jun 2018
8:46pm, 25 Jun 2018
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Velociraptor
I thought it was Sainsbury's that was going to do away with plastic packaging.

It hasn't yet, although the tomatoes I bought last week were in a cardboard tray.

About This Thread

Maintained by run free
Information about Plastic Packaging:
UK: wrap.org.uk

EU: ec.europa.eu

What products have microbeads?
beatthemicrobead.org

To help you reduce try one level at a time:https://tyrelady.wordpress.com/support-the-challenges/



What the EU is doing:
europa.eu

- currently the UK will be following SOME of the EU measures.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

Terms used to describe plastic:
1. Biodegradable (also oxi-biodegradable)
2. Bioplastic
3. Compostable
4. Plastic that potentially could be recycled (has numbers)
5. Plastic that cannot be recycled

Some resources:
BBC's info on the numbers on Plastics:
news.bbc.co.uk

The misconceptions of biodegradable plastics from an academic:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b04051?src=recsys&

Understanding plastic terms:
wrap.org.uk

Bioplastic developments as seen by British Plastic

britishplastics.co.uk
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