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Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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run free
run free
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Thanks @Sharkie et al

@WA - have been able to BYOR (Bring Your Own Reusable) to Tesco's deli and fish counters for years - though had to talk to them about it. So yah for ditching the plastic bags, though feels like society needs to grow up about the convenience and be charged for wanting a single-use packaging in the first place to realise the cost and impact of disposal. Am concerned that this is more a sideways step when everyone ditches plastic for recycled paper which has an unseen energy + pollutant + resource cost.

Snap @Red Squirrel - the other day bought a bottle of pickles and olives as a snack as it was the only thing not wrapped in plastic LOL
Red Squirrel
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I eat a lot of pickles Run Free; it's a good job I love them.

Interestingly, IKEA food has a few items not swathed in plastic. I have one close (Bristol Eastville). There's also a Turkish flatbread bakery close to where I live that has a big brick pizza oven and sells stuffed flatbreads, lamahjon etc all wrapped in paper (cardboard boxes for the pizza) when they hand items to you.

Apart from the lack of plastic, which is great; for me there's something satisfying about visiting a shop and carrying my shopping home loose or in paper/greaseproof paper. Plastic is an ugly, smelly product with a texture I've never liked.
Red Squirrel
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There's a local deli company also, which has about 4 shops in Bristol. They use compostable cups and bags for their coffee and pastries. Even the (cellulose maybe?) windows in their bags and sarnie boxes are compostable. It strikes me that Morrisons could use that medium for their bag windows ...
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Is that Chandos deli?
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Tis them indeed
run free
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4 more days to Plastic Free July:
plasticfreejuly.org

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Saw this & thought it would be a great idea for folk who have a surplus of mugs & want to change their organisation

run free
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Do share what disposable plastic items you will be giving up for plastic free July. A buddy has challenged me to provide actions / items that someone new can use to give up on single-use plastic. Here's my list so far: tyrelady.wordpress.com

Maybe some of you will have a better list of items :)
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I’m planning 31 blogs throughout July but for those of you who do festivals/carnivals/have teens I have discovered biodegradable cellulose based glitter for face and body decoration. Thekindstore.com
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Good ideas to start, run free. I’ve found (googled...) what is said to be a bulk Wholefoods store in York, so that’s my next plan. Kitchen is source of pretty much all the single use plastic for us. Bathroom stuff takes longer to empty, and larger tubs are reused for various things, but I’m going to try replacing with plastic free only.

Three big problems that I’ve noticed so far: inhalers (why no refills?); toothpaste (need to investigate tooth powder 😬); and SUNSCREEN - does anyone know a UK stockist of sunscreen in glass or metal or anything compostable?

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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