One new green thing a week!

quester

Market Traders and carboot sellers often appreciate used carrier bags too

Gemini21

catznine wrote:

So this week shopping bags, next week find a kitchen compost bin!

I've got a great kitchen compost bin! It's a Tupperware multiserver rice cooker - a 8" square tupperware, with a snuggly fitting lid, but not an air tight one which would be annoying when you've got carrot peelings in one hand! It's a great reuse of something which I never used any way and it takes a day or two to fill so saves me walking to the bottom of the garden continually. Plus its easily washable to keep it hygienic and also doesn't look an eyesore on the worktop next to the sink. Hope that inspires more people to compost! Even just the tea bags would make a difference!

Gemini21

jen_jen_2

oh no and i was doing so well :eek:

ive been given a bag and i didnt need it :eek:
went to boots, all excitied because i'd got my advantage points from phone deal and treating myself, wasnt concentrating (was too busy chatting) and the girl gave me a small bag, i didnt notice until i got in the car :eek:

how many times should i reuse it to nullify its effect????

am a bit annoyed with myself because this is supposed to be the week i focus on carrier bags, the whole point of starting the thread - dough (as homer so clearly stated!)

Linda32

I've been doing the bag for life thing for about a month now. I have one in my handbag which I have when needed and one in the car. I need to get another one for weekly shop.

We never did leave things on standby.

I'm on a reducing mission at the moment. one thing on ebay every few days.

SusanCarter

Yesterday I went to buy some shopping on the way home from work. As I was waiting at the checkout I thought, "Oh no! I haven't put any carrier bags in my bag yet." Luckily I then remembered that my husband had packed my lunch inside two carrier bags so I used them.

tankgirl1

oooh - im going shopping tomorrow, and i have an embarresingly large collection of carrier bags i do send them for recycling, but it would be much better to reuse them so that will be my mini-mission for tomorrow! :cool:

thanks OP :T

jen_jen_2

its sunday morning and day one of week two! Overall despite my little boots accident i think it was a success (more re-used incidents than not) and will continue with the good work.

However its now time to concentrate on something else to get in the habit and as its a heatwave this week (im off work how great!) and "darn sauf" you have a hosepipe ban the teeth cleaning water thing seems appropriate.

So guys concentrate on useing a glass of water or at least turning off the tap when you brush your teeth!!
As an addition my hot water runs lots of cold first so i am going to start to use this on the garden and water butts at tesco £18 so perhaps also time to invest.

Well done everyone for last week and lets hope the water saving goes well :T

savvy

arkonite_babe wrote:

Sainsburys say that the packaging on their so organic range is compostable and that they are working hard to improve the other packaging ranges in store.

Wow never knew that, does it have it printed on the bag, because I never noticed it


And why on EARTH can't they do that on ALL their products??? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

flashman_62

jen_jen wrote:

As an addition my hot water runs lots of cold first so i am going to start to use this on the garden and water butts at tesco £18 so perhaps also time to invest.

My hot tap in the kitchen also takes a while to get warm. So I keep 4/5 large plastic beakers next to the sink and fill them until the water gets hot. I then use this water on my plants or pour into my water jug in the fridge

SusanCarter

flashman_62 wrote:

My hot tap in the kitchen also takes a while to get warm. So I keep 4/5 large plastic beakers next to the sink and fill them until the water gets hot. I then use this water on my plants or pour into my water jug in the fridge

I've been trying to do a similar thing but as I fill a bucket and a watering can in one use of the hot tap, I can only do it once a day as we only water the plants in the evening. Obviously, the solution would be to get the hot water fixed so it doesn't use 15 litres of water to get hot water but we rent so are waiting for estate agent to sort it out. Also we don't have a water meter and have Kielder reservoir so no water limitations but obviously we don't want to be wasting loads of water so any suggestions of other solutions welcome.