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Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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Lizzie W
Lizzie W
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Hair straighteners are good for emergency touch ups.
Jenelopy
Jenelopy
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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.
beebop
beebop
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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...
beebop
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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. 😡
run free
run free
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happy to back u bee
V23
V23
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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?
halfpint
halfpint
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2:06pm, 15 Nov 2018
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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.
Carpathius
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2:47pm, 15 Nov 2018
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Hi V23 :)

I use Kutis deodorant - comes in cardboard sleeve and actually works, and because it's solid it doesn't leave a mess.
Lizzie W
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Supermarket news
V23
V23
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6:18pm, 15 Nov 2018
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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.

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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