Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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Mar 2018
1:09pm, 17 Mar 2018
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Wine Legs
The kids slept in cloth last night & it was fine. They don't wee so much now, so cloth lasts overnight. We got leaks all the time initially & I gave up.
Mar 2018
7:04pm, 17 Mar 2018
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Carpathius
I finally finished a new dishcloth :)

I bought two ages ago from somewhere, but they're getting tatty so I looked up the pattern. It doesn't look quite* like the pictures but it'll work.

*anything

Mar 2018
11:05pm, 22 Mar 2018
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TeeBee
What's it made from Carp?
Mar 2018
11:43pm, 22 Mar 2018
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Carpathius
Cotton yarn TeeBee. I think you can buy dishcloth specific stuff online but this is just from the local yarn shop.
Mar 2018
7:28am, 23 Mar 2018
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EvilPixie
I bought some yarn at the market going to make some this weekend!
Mar 2018
7:45am, 23 Mar 2018
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TeeBee
Thanks! :)
Mar 2018
9:23am, 23 Mar 2018
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Wine Legs
Two leaky bums this morning. Frustrating!

Still, we're using mostly cloth nappies. As is the childminder. The washing machine never seems to stop...
Mar 2018
9:33pm, 25 Mar 2018
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run free
WL - ya might like this about one woman's take on Elimination Communication / getting your baby out of nappies earlier: cartoonkate.co.uk
Mar 2018
8:43am, 26 Mar 2018
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Wine Legs
There's no way I could do EC with the two of them. They go in poonison quite frequently!! Pip also tells me "No!!" when I ask if he's pooing... when he is. I can't quite catch them fast enough yet to get the poo in the potty. And wees? No chance.

Squeak asks to use the potty just *after* she's pooed. Daft kid. She'll get there.

Anyway, they're pretty much entirely in cloth now, so that's good. I'll use disposables for if we do a long trip out (like when we went to Wimpole last week). They DO last for HOURS AND HOURS! But other than that, it's cloth all the way. We get leaks. It's not that big a deal. Just frustrating when you have to do an entire outfit change.
Mar 2018
10:15pm, 26 Mar 2018
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EvilPixie
My dishcloth- needs to be bigger I think and less pretty!!

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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