The plastic in a tea bag is a drop in the ocean when you think that no way on pretty much every street corner is a Starbucks or costa coffee handing out thousands per day of non recyclable cups.
what hasn’t happened to people that they now have to walk around with a skinny latte and they can’t sit down and drink it out of a mug. Or they have to pick up their fancy coffee on the way into work as putting the kettle on once there seems to be too hard for them to manage.
if you must buy over priced coffee with a silly name then please think about getting yourself a reusable travel mug and asking the shop to fill that rather than adding more to land fill.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
That drives me mad as well, I spend hours soaking off the cardboard from the plastic for the compost heap. It’s not only toys, I’ve bought kettle, toaster, make up, all with a plastic coating.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I asked our Fruit and Veg shop to stop placing veg in BLACK PLASTIC trays for people to buy and take home as our Bristol recycling can not process black ones
They did within a week as they are nice people who work with vegetables including me !!
Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
I ask Tesco not to put any of my shopping in plastic bags, on the Internet order. They don’t, then I choose food that isn’t in black trays, I alway use the clear ones for seed sowing and lids, eventually they disintegrate, several I have tried to use this year have broken to almost dust in my hand, not that that’s a help because they’ll all go into the land fill. At least they can be reused for two or three years.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
William Morris suggested a partial solution -*Have nothing in your house that is neither beautiful nor useful'
'Useful' would need to be extended I think, to include some things that reliably make you smile, some things of special sentimental meaning, and for children, things of developmental value, all categories which could contain items that are neither beautiful nor useful in the conventional sense.
It would exclude, however, a vast amount of stuff that we are encouraged to buy by commercial interests. Those cheap plastic toys that break on first use, the things you get in crackers, gimmicky gifts of dubious taste that are cast aside as soon as the giver departs...
I'm sure you could all add lots more to my list!
And of course plastic is useful, so we need to take the level of harm into consideration, and adapt our ways as much as possible. I try to use a plate or lid on dishes in the microwave, instead of clingfilm, but nay be it is better to use a bit, for leftovers in the fridge in a dish, instead of plastic containers?
Good bakery, I like Lidl’s bread as they supply paper bags with just a small cellophane window so the checkout person can see what’s in there. It’s easliy removed and the paper goes in the compost bin.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
60 billion tea bags in the UK is not a drop in the ocean - it's thousands of tonnes of plastic each year. Campaigning in not mutually exclusive - campaign for Starbucks to get a grip and for the tea companies to buck up. This stuff is not rocket science. If we can generate human tissue in a petri dish and print kidneys we can certainly make paper tea bags.
Buttercupdays, I have a lot of jam jars of different sizes (ex-marmalade etc) with screw-top lids. They are excellent for storing leftovers in the fridge.
I do use plastic containers in the freezer - but these too are recycled; plastic takeaway containers are stackable and come in different depths. If you're careful with them they last a very long time. And I freeze my home-made ice cream in... a recycled ice cream tub.
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The plastic in a tea bag is a drop in the ocean when you think that no way on pretty much every street corner is a Starbucks or costa coffee handing out thousands per day of non recyclable cups.
what hasn’t happened to people that they now have to walk around with a skinny latte and they can’t sit down and drink it out of a mug. Or they have to pick up their fancy coffee on the way into work as putting the kettle on once there seems to be too hard for them to manage.
if you must buy over priced coffee with a silly name then please think about getting yourself a reusable travel mug and asking the shop to fill that rather than adding more to land fill.
Plastic toys wrapped in protective plastic packaging and carried home in a plastic bag.
The rather obvious solution is to tax plastic.
That drives me mad as well, I spend hours soaking off the cardboard from the plastic for the compost heap. It’s not only toys, I’ve bought kettle, toaster, make up, all with a plastic coating.
I asked our Fruit and Veg shop to stop placing veg in BLACK PLASTIC trays for people to buy and take home as our Bristol recycling can not process black ones
They did within a week as they are nice people who work with vegetables including me !!
I ask Tesco not to put any of my shopping in plastic bags, on the Internet order. They don’t, then I choose food that isn’t in black trays, I alway use the clear ones for seed sowing and lids, eventually they disintegrate, several I have tried to use this year have broken to almost dust in my hand, not that that’s a help because they’ll all go into the land fill. At least they can be reused for two or three years.
William Morris suggested a partial solution -*Have nothing in your house that is neither beautiful nor useful'
'Useful' would need to be extended I think, to include some things that reliably make you smile, some things of special sentimental meaning, and for children, things of developmental value, all categories which could contain items that are neither beautiful nor useful in the conventional sense.
It would exclude, however, a vast amount of stuff that we are encouraged to buy by commercial interests. Those cheap plastic toys that break on first use, the things you get in crackers, gimmicky gifts of dubious taste that are cast aside as soon as the giver departs...
I'm sure you could all add lots more to my list!
And of course plastic is useful, so we need to take the level of harm into consideration, and adapt our ways as much as possible. I try to use a plate or lid on dishes in the microwave, instead of clingfilm, but nay be it is better to use a bit, for leftovers in the fridge in a dish, instead of plastic containers?
Someone asked our bread shop to let us take our bread home in non plastic bags or this new invention..........paper !!
They have done and they are called Joes on Gloucester Road Bristol so I proudly give them a plug
http://www.joesbakery.co.uk/
Good bakery, I like Lidl’s bread as they supply paper bags with just a small cellophane window so the checkout person can see what’s in there. It’s easliy removed and the paper goes in the compost bin.
"The plastic in a tea bag is a drop in the ocean"
60 billion tea bags in the UK is not a drop in the ocean - it's thousands of tonnes of plastic each year. Campaigning in not mutually exclusive - campaign for Starbucks to get a grip and for the tea companies to buck up. This stuff is not rocket science. If we can generate human tissue in a petri dish and print kidneys we can certainly make paper tea bags.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/01/26/toddler-gets-world-first-adult-kidney-transplant-using-3d-printi/
Buttercupdays, I have a lot of jam jars of different sizes (ex-marmalade etc) with screw-top lids. They are excellent for storing leftovers in the fridge.
I do use plastic containers in the freezer - but these too are recycled; plastic takeaway containers are stackable and come in different depths. If you're careful with them they last a very long time.
And I freeze my home-made ice cream in... a recycled ice cream tub.