Reducing single-use/disposable plastic
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Nov 2018
3:30pm, 10 Nov 2018
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Lizzie W
Hair straighteners are good for emergency touch ups.
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Nov 2018
9:55pm, 10 Nov 2018
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Jenelopy
I iron occasionally, you need to when you wax your skis. I do approve of not wanting clothes unnecessarily, and of dying clothes on the line outside rather than in a drier. |
Nov 2018
11:07pm, 12 Nov 2018
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beebop
I more or less ran a lovely half marathon on Sunday - mostly trail or moor, beautiful scenery. Downside was picking up more than a dozen gel packets from the middle of nowhere, plus a few pull off gel openers, a couple of chocolate wrappers and two dropped remembrance poppies. The poppies were accidental, no doubt, but the rest was pure undiluted fuckwittery. If I could carry all that to the end, then each individual who chose to drop the packaging could have carried it to the next post water station bin. I’m not even going to estimate the number of bottles, because I couldn’t carry that many. Everyone could carry one! Sometimes I really hate people...
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Nov 2018
11:09pm, 12 Nov 2018
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beebop
I’m going to email the organisers about plastic bottles when I get a moment. I suspect they were donated, it being a charity run, but I also suspect that might not all have been collected. 😡
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Nov 2018
4:10pm, 13 Nov 2018
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run free
happy to back u bee
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Nov 2018
9:18am, 15 Nov 2018
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V23
Hi all, I'm new to this thread but am somewhat obsessed with plastic, so I thought it seemed like the place for me! Reading back through the last few pages, I agree with the comments about remembrance poppies. Beebop, good for you for picking up all those wrappers. Apologies if this has been mentioned before (I admit I've not read back through the whole thread) but a recent plastic-free discovery of mine is Fit Pit, a deodorant that comes in a glass jar. Has anyone else tried it? |
Nov 2018
2:06pm, 15 Nov 2018
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halfpint
I am trying a heavenly organics deodorant but it is powder and it makes a hellish mess everywhere. It will be replaced with something else. How are you finding the fit pit? Someone on here posted a recipe for deodorant recently - I must go back and find it and give it a whirl. |
Nov 2018
2:47pm, 15 Nov 2018
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Carpathius
Hi V23  I use Kutis deodorant - comes in cardboard sleeve and actually works, and because it's solid it doesn't leave a mess. |
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Nov 2018
3:57pm, 15 Nov 2018
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Lizzie W
telegraph.co.uk Supermarket news |
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Nov 2018
6:18pm, 15 Nov 2018
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V23
Hi Carp :D HP - I'm a definite convert to FitPit, it works really well. It's a reasonably solid paste, so you scoop a tiny bit out and just rub it in. |
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