Single use plastics

tori.k

By the time you patch the poly full of gaffa tape to stop the leaks you can sell it on as a mushroom grow house, think that what the plan must be with one of ours
we moved on to a lot grey & taupe recyclable plastic did give bio degradable pots a go doesn't work on a commercial level.

Arthog

Before being dropped in to the recycling tub in our kitchen, each plastic item is inspected for possible gardening usefulness!
Larger white lids - if they have a rough back surface, are cut up for plant labels. If a shiny back surface, or sheets of white packaging, they're placed in the darker corner of the greenhouse to reflect light.
Spare plants go into small pots, possibly enhanced with a tester paint pot, then into a lid, then into a plastic bag, then to the Charity Shop.
Clear trays are used as covers on seed trays.
Clear plastic bottles are cut into rounds, then a 'fringe' is cut around one edge. These are put around plants, as snails can't get over the top.
Trays are used for seeds, also filled with stones and used to weigh down mulch or sheets of recycled polythene.
Large plastic tubs and leaking buckets are used to grow early potatoes in the greenhouse.
Small bottles are dunked into boiling water, which makes them go quaintly wonky, then they serve as eye protection for the tops of canes.
(Plastic straws are washed and reused as plastic straws!)
When plastic items are at last old, broken and cloudy, they finally go to be recycled.

50Twuncle

Arthog wrote: »

Before being dropped in to the recycling tub in our kitchen, each plastic item is inspected for possible gardening usefulness!
Larger white lids - if they have a rough back surface, are cut up for plant labels. If a shiny back surface, or sheets of white packaging, they're placed in the darker corner of the greenhouse to reflect light.
Spare plants go into small pots, possibly enhanced with a tester paint pot, then into a lid, then into a plastic bag, then to the Charity Shop.
Clear trays are used as covers on seed trays.
Clear plastic bottles are cut into rounds, then a 'fringe' is cut around one edge. These are put around plants, as snails can't get over the top.
Trays are used for seeds, also filled with stones and used to weigh down mulch or sheets of recycled polythene.
Large plastic tubs and leaking buckets are used to grow early potatoes in the greenhouse.
Small bottles are dunked into boiling water, which makes them go quaintly wonky, then they serve as eye protection for the tops of canes.
(Plastic straws are washed and reused as plastic straws!)
When plastic items are at last old, broken and cloudy, they finally go to be recycled.

What about margarine tubs ?
Our recycling company doesn't take them.,...
This seems to be a common problem - no standard list of recyclable containers.

unrecordings

50Twuncle wrote: »

What about margarine tubs ?
Our recycling company doesn't take them.,...
This seems to be a common problem - no standard list of recyclable containers.

Different facilities have the capability to recycle different materials - this seems to be randomly down to investment/demand, for example our council bins are completely crap for recycling anything, so we take all our recycling to the local supermarket where a far wider range of plastics (and tetrapaks) are accepted

And like the previous poster I'm always raiding the recycling for nice containers

50Twuncle

Our local pub has dispensed with plastic straws - in favour of seashell made straws -which are not vegan friendly - so have had to revert to plastic again...,

Davesnave

50Twuncle wrote: »

Our local pub has dispensed with plastic straws - in favour of seashell made straws -which are not vegan friendly - so have had to revert to plastic again...,

Vegans have a lot to answer for...Don't they eventually destroy the Earth in order to build an intergalactic super-highway?



I read it somewhere.

unrecordings

Davesnave wrote: »

Vegans have a lot to answer for...Don't they eventually destroy the Earth in order to build an intergalactic super-highway?



I read it somewhere.

...and their poetry is something else

Hope you observed towel day on Saturday Dave

(married to a vegan)

50Twuncle

unrecordings wrote: »

...and their poetry is something else

Hope you observed towel day on Saturday Dave

(married to a vegan)

Green skin puts me off !!!
But each to their own.

Living_proof

50Twuncle wrote: »

I see that single use plastics are yet again in the firing line

1. Ear buds
2. Drinking Straws

This got me thinking
Disposable water filters - how many of these do we get through annually - do they decompost ?
Nope !!

They do recycle them though and our local Argos has a special dispenser for used ones. The only reason I have them is that our water is unbelievably hard. (Edited to say sorry, I see this has already been mentioned.)

I reuse loads of plastic and only throw it away when it is past redemption but I wonder whether putting it in the recycling is the right thing? Is brittle used stuff any good or are we just contaminated the binful? We need to know so much more about the way it is all dealt with and the sooner it is standard throughout the better.

Davesnave

unrecordings wrote: »

Hope you observed towel day on Saturday Dave

Yes, but I'm afraid I kept it in the car most of the time.:o
I haven't fully come out yet, this being Devon and folks somewhat suspicious of anyone carrying anything other than a sheep or a loaded 12 bore.