Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Oct 2018
4:00pm, 9 Oct 2018
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run free
Wow - Lidl, Ireland will be banning single-use plastic across Ireland and Northern Ireland for all fruit and veg produce packagingnews.co.uk
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Oct 2018
4:15pm, 9 Oct 2018
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Wriggling Snake
I just read back, that article was back in March, I remember it because, it is a river just across the hills north of where I live. The Tame, joins The river Goyt and Etherow to form the Mersey between Stockport and Manchester. Other measurements show the river is remarkably clean compared to just a few decades ago, i.e Slamon swim up again. The most interesting point in the article is that these measurments were made by Manchester University students in this area, and the phrase "yet measured" is used, worse will follow for sure. That Lidl thing is interesting in that they have reacted so quickly, compared to other supermarkets, so well done them, but I wish they would get rid of plastic milk bottles, all supermarkets, that would be very good. Deposit bottles, glass, is where it is at. |
Oct 2018
5:07pm, 9 Oct 2018
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halfpint
I really hope Lidl go that way in all supermarkets. Just had to get a couple of bits from Tesco fruit and veg and it was a real struggle.
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Oct 2018
5:22pm, 9 Oct 2018
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
It really irks me that Asda only seem to have prepacked mushrooms and from Poland at that, why can't we have loose British mushrooms, it's crazy! I won't buy mine from Asda!!
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Oct 2018
9:38pm, 9 Oct 2018
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Jenelopy
People have either ignored or been impressed by my reusable coffee cup and water bottle at my conference. Sadly the conference is using disposable cups for both water and coffee, and plastic cutlery at lunch  I hadn't thought to bring cutlery! They weren't even doing recycling - when we came to throwing away our lunch stuff (we got individual lunches in a cardboard tray with a plastic lid) I asked where to recycle it, and the organisers looked embarrassed and said we couldn't. At the next break, they had labelled the three bins "plastic", "paper" and "trash" so everything was recycled
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Oct 2018
1:21pm, 10 Oct 2018
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run free
Great stuff Jen. Though sadly NZ recycled plastic is sent abroad to be processed & heard that there is a back log due to China + other Asian nations are shutting their doors on Developed Nations plastic trash.
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Oct 2018
6:03pm, 10 Oct 2018
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Jenelopy
This is in Stockholm, so not site about their recycling. I assume at least the card will be usefully recycled.
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Oct 2018
6:33pm, 10 Oct 2018
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Carpathius
There's a new local plastic free pop up shop. I got my rice and raisins from there today. One thing that nowhere, even Plastic Free Pantry, can't seem to get is bulk plastic free pasta. Any ideas? |
Oct 2018
10:12pm, 10 Oct 2018
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roberton
run free: bit of a delay but thanks for your explanations regarding astro turf etc. I'm not 100% convinced but I understand the issue a bit better now and appreciate you trying to answer my question. Thanks!
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Oct 2018
2:11pm, 11 Oct 2018
3,275 posts
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run free
Smoking - the EU is banning more single use plastics by 2021: packagingnews.co.uk Will the UK be following or continue to promote plastic recycling as the answer |
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