[Challenge] Plastic Waste

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These topics are useful for insights of what you can do to undertake this challenge.

How to Reduce Use of Single Use Plastics and How Have You Done It?

Found a blog by Greenpeace member:

The undiscovered truth about pollution from tyres

Last week we discovered through discussing the BBC news article about car tyre and brake dust that tyres affect air quality significantly because of particulate matter and account for up to 30% of microplastics in our rivers and sea. The crazy thing is that tyres are completely unregulated against a backdrop of regulation for tailpipe emissions (see here unece report). It turns out they have very little natural rubber left in them and have some pretty nasty carcinogenic oil derivatives. The p…

Melisa's Guide to Sustainable Fashion

By Melisa Gooding Clothes are essential to our everyday living and are a symbol of self-expression yet the way they are produced, consumed and discarded is highly polluting and unethical. With one garbage truck of textiles being wasted every second (Ellen Mcarthy foundation, 2019) it shouldn’t come at a shock that the apparel industry is the 2ndmost polluting in the world. Production boomed after the 1950’s when production was relocated out of sight and out of mind, to places with lower regul…

Reducing the release of microfibres from clothes

I’ve started this thread to get a discussion about microfibers. A lot of the information I share here is from the World Economic Forum. 60% of clothes produced are made synthetically from petrochemicals (e.g. polyester, nylon & acrilyc). Around half a million tonnes of microplastics end up in the ocean from clothes. Microfibres are a pollutant, as explained by the Marine Debris Program, microfibers are teeny-tiny particles of synthetic fabrics that come off of our clothing while it’s in the …

Clothes and Extending Their Lives

I really like the European model of mending clothes rather than throwing away and buying yet more. Anybody got any interesting experiences of this? Whilst in France for a couple of years I had endless old dears, not my wife, fixing trousers and jackets that have gone on for many years thereafter.

Here comes the milkman - milk!

It’s brilliant - milkman delivering organic milk in glass bottles with foil tops on. Wren Davis will be delivering mine (as they cover The Chilterns and Buckinghamshire) for £0.92 per pint on a Monday (but I could’ve had Wednesday or Friday): https://wrendavisdelivery.co.uk/. I gather that Milk and More have had a lot of interest since everyone’s taken an interest in cutting out their purchase of products in plastic packaging: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcYU5g-3QM

Sustainable loo roll - what's in your loo?

Hi, I use ‘who gives a crap’ Very pleased with the company. 50% of profits go to building toilets in developing countries. Recycled paper - good quality and fat rolls that last for ages. Rolls wrapped in paper, delivered in a box. Bulk buy 48 rolls delivered to house every 16 weeks ( I split order with my sister) Highly recommended

Ethical Shoes - where one might look

I have bought lots of pairs of shoes over the years from Vegetarian Shoes. they have a shop in Brighton but they do webshop orders as well. I’ve had no reason not to go back for more (I think I must have had about 10 pairs from them). I believe some of their shoes are made at a workers co-operative in Portugal. The vegetarian aspect was what was important to me, especially 10 years or so ago when it was a bit more of an alien concept than it is now. The one criticism is that the synthetic materi…

Not a bad mornings crop!

The garden is producing like no bodies business. Happy as it reduces food miles, it’s zero plastic, keeps me active and gives me those not instant but real pleasures! [image]

Locations for crisp packet recycling

Here is the link to find out where you can recycle your crisp packets: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1wtZ6QyNyr05ApVFeMFuKC_dq7dajX-4g&ll=54.26060313584826,-2.799118443147563&z=6