All the time this stuff is in the shops to buy, people will buy it. but what would happen to the waste if it wasnât made into plastic items for sale, and what would a price of a gallon of petrol be if they couldnât make money out of that waste product.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
For my wedding we bought some paper punches in various shapes, collected loads of brightly coloured autumn leaves, dried them flat and then punched shapes out of them to make confetti. Admittedly it took a lot longer than I thought but easy enough work to sit in front of the TV with a beer punching leaves.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We were going through the Ashdown Forest and stopped off to eat our sandwiches (getting old, i know. I even grunt when i sit down sometimes) . Anyway. We went back to the car. The bench had plastic -wrapped dead flowers attached to it. It would have felt like picnicking on a grave.
What really annoys me in cemeteries are Christmas wreaths still there at Easter, all plastic flowers blowing around the Churchyard. When I was working regularly I would pick all the rubbish up and put it in the relevant bins. Â I have a feeling itâs one of the grave diggers jobs go back and remove dead flowers when they check the grave.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Those rubber bands found at Mullion in Cornwall - local news reported this the other day. They are not the rubber bands from the post workers (actually, I can't remember the last time I saw those here) but rather they are from the bands used in the daffodil fields, where the bunches we buy in the spring are held together with thin rubber bands. I'll be honest and say I never thought about that. Sad that I am, I carefully remove all rubber bands and keep them for future use. Trouble is, they sort of breed in storage, and the half-dozen I started out with have increased to several dozen without my even noticing!
I pick up postmans rubber bands. OH has quite a large ball made of them now. If you think waste plastic on land is bad, you should see under the sea. Fishing nets, glass bottles, plastic bottles, the odd tyre or windscreen, bits of fishing line attached to lead weights are a nightmare because you can't see them. Plastic bags look like jellyfish to turtles.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
but what would happen to the waste if it wasnât made into plastic items for sale, and what would a price of a gallon of petrol be if they couldnât make money out of that waste product.Â
I'll be honest and say I never thought about that. Sad that I am, I carefully remove all rubber bands and keep them for future use. Trouble is, they sort of breed in storage, and the half-dozen I started out with have increased to several dozen without my even noticing!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.