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No plastic

Summer!Summer! Posts: 9
in Problem solving
watching tonight's episode (27/4/18) - see allotment feature and using plastic markers - tut tut - what's wrong with wood ? Old / new lolly sticks etc . No excuse ! 
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wood doesn't work outside for a lot of us.
  • Summer!Summer! Posts: 9
    Our allotment is outside ! 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm glad it works for you.

    Discussions here and here.
  • Summer!Summer! Posts: 9
    Thank you, It does and is compostable -recycle and save our planet and oceans to be plastic free gets my vote 
     
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    90% of the rubbish in the oceans is from 10 rivers in Asia, I don’t think plastic labels will make too much difference. 
    We can do our best but until this is sorted out in every other country there’s not much we can do. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you use it/recycle it rather than dumping it, it doesn't get into the oceans.
    Not using what already exists doesn't solve the problem. 
    Do you remember when we used to worry about non-sustainable wood?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Summer!Summer! Posts: 9
    Agree - but Have to start somewhere Lyn - can't dismiss as  NIMBY 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    And most of us do Summer, but how can we tell the people of Asia not to put rubbish in their rivers.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Summer!Summer! Posts: 9
    Lead by example - lots of Asian projects going on world wide to raise profile - to be fair majority havent got basic needs met so plastic recycling not high on their survival agenda in my opinion as is a scarce source of income for some  
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Lyn said:
    And most of us do Summer, but how can we tell the people of Asia not to put rubbish in their rivers.
    Actually a lot of the rubbish they dump in the rivers is our rubbish. If we hadn't have been shipping our poor quality 'recyclables' over to Asia in the first place there would be less of a problem. Always start with Reduce before Recyling.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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