What's your dirty little secret?

MandM90

I thought I'd be a bit provocative and see which eco friendly habits we haven't yet cracked.

I'll start...

I drive a (big) car the 6 miles to work each day because we still have no shed to house my bike - it's at the in laws - and OHs bike already takes up too much space in our 900sqft house. Feeble, I know! Meanwhile, OH dutifully cycles the 25 mile hilly round trip!

We also have a fizzy water habit...and it comes in plastic bottles

I'm sure I could think of many more...

ajbell

Must admit that I feed plastic bottles to whales, don't know why, must stop doing it.

savvy

Hm tricky one, think I will have to go for supermarket packaging. Still guilty of buying things in excess packaging e.g when they don't sell loose fruit or veg. And as I hate raw meat, I buy plastic containers of meat for the dogs because I can just flip it into their bowls BUT from time to time we get fresh pre prepared fish offcuts, and I'm just about overcoming the grimness of that

JimLad

I dont recycle food waste into the council provided green bins and just put it in the regular bin. It needs emptying too regularly and gets stinky quick. Plus im lazy...

DigForVictory

I have & use a tumble drier.
I am *trying* to teach the sons to use the washing line but the heat & daylight conjunction means I can show them about 10 days a year...

JimLad

DigForVictory wrote: »

I have & use a tumble drier.
I am *trying* to teach the sons to use the washing line but the heat & daylight conjunction means I can show them about 10 days a year...

Call me lazy but sometimes i just cant be bothered to go outside!

Misslayed

I use my tumble drier, but only when the sun is shining, which is a bit
a r s e about face I know but it's powered by my solar panels. I also have a serious fizzy water habit, but I'm considering investing in a soda machine.

pinnks

We have had a soda machine for over 20 years. We have good, hard, water (can water be hard???) which tastes fab anyway. Fizzy water 50/50 with apple juice - mmmmmmm.

We too use the tumble drier but try to do when max generation from the PV irrespective of the time of year - I just think towels need to be tumbled!

Other than that, not sure we have too many eco secrets, other than the new bean-to-cup coffee machine but not sure that is really any worse than a kettle or filter coffee machine and the coffee is soooooooooooooooo good.

Owain_Moneysaver

pinnks wrote: »

the new bean-to-cup coffee machine

Probably better than the instant coffee pod machines where the pods aren't recyclable.

Owain_Moneysaver

I don't recycle anything.

We don't have recycling bins in this building.

It's wonderful not having to sort things into about seven different bins/boxes/bags and remember which goes out what week.

JimLad

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

I don't recycle anything.

We don't have recycling bins in this building.

It's wonderful not having to sort things into about seven different bins/boxes/bags and remember which goes out what week.

Now that is really bad!