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Post by rowanberry on May 16, 2018 18:53:29 GMT
It's only a small start... but at this point, every little helps!
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Post by Tringa on May 20, 2018 10:45:05 GMT
Agree, a good move.
We try to reduce plastic consumption but it is difficult when routinely so much comes in plastic.
Plastic food packaging is often cited as the main culprit, but there is at least as much plastic in hardware products. Lots of items in places such as Homebase/B&Q etc are in hard plastic.
Dave
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Post by NellyDee on May 20, 2018 12:27:20 GMT
The problem is that everything seems to be plastic based and harmful to the environment - fake fur and our clothes for instance -most of them are plastic based polyesters, nylons and acrylics which will sit clogging up our environment for hundreds of years to come. I quote - "Two years ago Plymouth University published a study into what happens in your washing machine. They found each average size cycle can release up to hundred of thousands of plastic microfibers which are then swilled into our rivers, waterways and oceans. As well as polluting marine environments and being ingested by fish, the impact on humans as these minute plastics work their way up the food chain is unknown.
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Post by Tringa on May 20, 2018 13:36:00 GMT
After being concerned about the plastic from drink bottles I was feeling a bit happier about it when I heard, a couple of years ago, that the bottles could be recycled into items such as fleece jackets.
Now I'm on the way back to square one because, as you say, fleeces shed loads of fibres into the environment.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on May 25, 2018 21:42:13 GMT
The problem is that everything seems to be plastic based and harmful to the environment - fake fur and our clothes for instance -most of them are plastic based polyesters, nylons and acrylics which will sit clogging up our environment for hundreds of years to come. I quote - "Two years ago Plymouth University published a study into what happens in your washing machine. They found each average size cycle can release up to hundred of thousands of plastic microfibers which are then swilled into our rivers, waterways and oceans. As well as polluting marine environments and being ingested by fish, the impact on humans as these minute plastics work their way up the food chain is unknown.
I try my best when buying clothing to stick to natural fibres... but it's so difficult! So much seems to be viscose, polyester or 'poly-cotton' ... and just last week I bought a sunscreen on sale, only to find that one of the ingredients is harmful to marine life. So that's £6.00 ill-spent- it's getting ridiculous, having to research each and every ingredient in every product, in an attempt to not do harm.
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