A Plastic Diet

Ben84

I'm more concerned with the loo paper than the packaging. Quite a few brands are made with no recycled content at all and some use wood pulp from clear cut forests. I'd rather buy recycled, even if the packet is plastic film.

The plastic films used to wrap loo paper do have some recycling potential, you can often recycle them in plastic bag bins, and they get turned in to things like garden furniture. However, I'm not convinced it helps the environment to turn waste plastic in to plastic garden furniture, a product which is generally poor quality and quickly thrown away itself.

shaz_mum_of__2

Intersing points guys...............beeing green isn't easy is it so many variables

I guess as long as we all do something it must help ................right?

Shaz

DdraigGoch

Well, I'm still working my way through the month as plastic-free as I can - boy, I'm sure I'm getting older! Either that or more things are overwrapped in plastic than they used to be

In response to "why plastic", it's because plastic wrapping is so seldom neccessary and could so frequently be either discarded or substituted for by your own fabric bag or a piece of paper. I'm old enough to remember going to the bakers and wandering out with a loaf wrapped only in thick tissue paper, light bulbs came wrapped in corrugated paper [not cardboard] square tubes and if you bought a chisel it was handed to you in a paper bag and you didn't need nails like Fu Manchu to get at something! Some things are going back to cardboard packaging - quite a lot of batteries are now packaged in cardboard, for instance, and more washing powder is available in cardboard boxes than seemed to be the case a while ago.

I may well be misinformed, I may be wrong-headed about my quest to cut down my useage of plastic, but I'm well-intentioned. I try to do the best I can.

Thanks for your support.

greenbee

I ordered Suma loo paper from ethical superstore as the picture [STRIKE]showed [/STRIKE]shows that they were paper wrapped...

... and they aren't. They come in packs of 9, wrapped in plastic