Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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WA Aug 2019 7:42pm, 2 Aug 2019 6,117 posts	0 WA Last night 2 of my work colleagues separately shared info about 2 different shops (both in Leeds) for fill-ups of household cleaning stuff. All I need now is somewhere to buy loose dried foods.
Turtlemama Aug 2019 7:48pm, 2 Aug 2019 390 posts	0 Turtlemama Ah it may be helpful if I shared location of the refill shop I mentioned... Kenilworth, Warwickshire
cackleberry Aug 2019 10:37pm, 2 Aug 2019 1,662 posts	0 cackleberry Regarding my earlier post about bubble wrap, I listed it on Freecycle today and already have somebody interested. Excellent, thanks for the tip
WA Aug 2019 11:42pm, 2 Aug 2019 6,119 posts	0 WA I did the same with coathangers. No charity shop wants them, so posted on a local page and had a couple of takers. Really is one man's rubbish, another man's treasure
LindsD Aug 2019 11:47pm, 2 Aug 2019 28,797 posts	0 LindsD Ditto broken sat navs and dab radios.
Red Squirrel Aug 2019 12:25am, 3 Aug 2019 20,983 posts	0 Red Squirrel I need some wooden coathangers.
run free Aug 2019 8:02pm, 3 Aug 2019 3,495 posts	0 run free Thank you Katie. Also great to read about zero waste shops popping up. RS would you take second hand plastic hangers?
Red Squirrel Aug 2019 4:08pm, 4 Aug 2019 20,984 posts	0 Red Squirrel I actually don't like plastic at all, so I search charity shops for wooden ones.
run free Aug 2019 11:29pm, 5 Aug 2019 3,496 posts	0 run free If you wanted to subtly encourage people to use reusable cloths instead of disposable wet wipes, This Morning did a short on wet wipe fatbergs and the litter created. I have seen lots of disposable wet wipes in our natural environment to wipe zee bum: facebook.com
Markymarkmark Aug 2019 7:18am, 6 Aug 2019 9,413 posts	0 Markymarkmark Does anyone know whether or where we can recycle race numbers? I think they're probably Tyvek - basically polyethylene but not sure.

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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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