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Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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Red Squirrel
Red Squirrel
Jul 2019
1:33pm, 19 Jul 2019
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Potato or sweet potato wedges are good crisp replacement. I rub them with spices and olive oil before roasting.

Also, own-made dolmades and oven-baked felafels.

Rice balls.

Sliced tortilla.
Jenelopy
Jenelopy
Jul 2019
6:16pm, 19 Jul 2019
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We don't really entertain because our house is currently cold and messy (and I am a bit antisocial!). If we did, how about:

1. carrot sticks and hummus (a little bit more effort, but not a lot)
2. nuts (from bulk buy bins)
3. fruit (e.g. grapes, cherries)
4. politely (or otherwise!) tell people to wait until dinner and not spoil their appetite

(when we were on holiday earlier in the year, I'd get really annoyed with my FiL opening crisps and snacks things while I was cooking dinner, even if I said it was almost ready. How did he know my cooking was going to be so bad that he needed to fill up on junk first?)
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jul 2019
6:37pm, 19 Jul 2019
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Sympathy, Jenelopy! My mother is an absolute rascal for having a wee biscuit here and a wee scone there and picking and shuffling at her plate and claiming to be "full" at mealtimes then being back at the biscuits five minutes later.
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Jul 2019
8:30pm, 21 Jul 2019
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Ok random one

My dad recently died and is being buried.

How would you organise an environmentally friendly funeral?!!
halfpint
halfpint
Jul 2019
8:41pm, 21 Jul 2019
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Sorry for your loss EP. I’m afraid I can’t answer your query.
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
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8:53pm, 21 Jul 2019
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Thing is as a burial you can "put anything in the coffin"
Whereas cremations have some restrictions eg no shoes!
The funeral director showed us loads of coffins including some natural ones

But it did make me ponder
Lizzie W
Lizzie W
Jul 2019
9:47pm, 21 Jul 2019
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We have a natural burial ground locally where you can have a tree and stuff.
LindsD
LindsD
Jul 2019
9:57pm, 21 Jul 2019
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There's one near my Mum.
WA
WA
Jul 2019
10:31pm, 21 Jul 2019
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My fil was buried in something like a wicker coffin, in a natural burial ground. He has a tree, but no headstone.
SarahWoo
SarahWoo
Jul 2019
7:00am, 22 Jul 2019
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I have ordered milk to be delivered in glass bottles :) It will be very nostalgic.

About This Thread

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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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