The War against plastic waste

DigForVictory

missychrissy said:

I thought I was doing quite well but I’m not in your league. 

There are no leagues here, just occasional nudges & I got two - one through World Environment Day & another through Scouts (We're big on repair, reuse, recycle - how else to keep up with familiar but new games every week let alone badge activities?!) So (like so many parents eyeing a child's badge requirements), I looked at what we do already that we could tweak. Just being MS & taking my own lunch in (back when), & eating off & with kit stored there, scores loads of eco points. (That they were sourced though charity shops helped.) Really, so much of "How Well You Do" is based on what you were doing anyway for other reasons, ahem! I freely admit I used the eco friendly as a pretext for getting one nice biro (from ebay, why pay new prices?!) but then when I found I had a wad of points I splurged on the seriously trad fountain pen & the propelling pencil. Which is being eyed covetously by almost all my menfolk, so as I said there's Christmas sorted - though I need to ask a sib to mail me some nail polish so I can individualise them..

Also look at the gaps, ahem. Original post here The young remain hooked on fizzy pop, I carry on with my evil laundry ways (I don't suppose that I buy the biggest box Costco sells counts) and as for washing up - I'd be kicked off the board by any serious eco purist. Just the bottle of ecover stuff I have simply doesn't have the savvidgery needed to get our frying pan de-coked. (In point of fact, I may need to get out the black & decker & a wire brush. Then do the floor with a broom and a magnet - getting a brush "bristle" of crinkly wire stuck in your foot hurts A Lot.)

I think it comes down to keeping on trying. Amidst shifting goalposts - I happily bought bags for life & am now told they aren't as good as string bags, so I got them & they are a swine to load in a hurry & maintain your dignity with (where do you shove the bonus treat chocolate bar & the sanitary tackle? Hidden between packs of deli produce doesn't quite seem quite right) let alone stack in the boot.
Ah well. Fingers crossed future generations do not judge me too harshly. I still flinch from the memory of forgetting my jute shopping totes & getting "Don't You Care About The Planet, Mummy" from an eco-alert infant offspring. Who, a decade later, utterly recoils from my suggestion that one good razor will see him out, preferring instead multiblade swivel plastic. 

PipneyJane

DigForVictory said:

missychrissy said:

I thought I was doing quite well but I’m not in your league. 

There are no leagues here, just occasional nudges & I got two - one through World Environment Day & another through Scouts (We're big on repair, reuse, recycle - how else to keep up with familiar but new games every week let alone badge activities?!) So (like so many parents eyeing a child's badge requirements), I looked at what we do already that we could tweak. Just being MS & taking my own lunch in (back when), & eating off & with kit stored there, scores loads of eco points. (That they were sourced though charity shops helped.) Really, so much of "How Well You Do" is based on what you were doing anyway for other reasons, ahem! I freely admit I used the eco friendly as a pretext for getting one nice biro (from ebay, why pay new prices?!) but then when I found I had a wad of points I splurged on the seriously trad fountain pen & the propelling pencil. Which is being eyed covetously by almost all my menfolk, so as I said there's Christmas sorted - though I need to ask a sib to mail me some nail polish so I can individualise them..

Also look at the gaps, ahem. Original post here The young remain hooked on fizzy pop, I carry on with my evil laundry ways (I don't suppose that I buy the biggest box Costco sells counts) and as for washing up - I'd be kicked off the board by any serious eco purist. Just the bottle of ecover stuff I have simply doesn't have the savvidgery needed to get our frying pan de-coked. (In point of fact, I may need to get out the black & decker & a wire brush. Then do the floor with a broom and a magnet - getting a brush "bristle" of crinkly wire stuck in your foot hurts A Lot.)

I think it comes down to keeping on trying. Amidst shifting goalposts - I happily bought bags for life & am now told they aren't as good as string bags, so I got them & they are a swine to load in a hurry & maintain your dignity with (where do you shove the bonus treat chocolate bar & the sanitary tackle? Hidden between packs of deli produce doesn't quite seem quite right) let alone stack in the boot.
Ah well. Fingers crossed future generations do not judge me too harshly. I still flinch from the memory of forgetting my jute shopping totes & getting "Don't You Care About The Planet, Mummy" from an eco-alert infant offspring. Who, a decade later, utterly recoils from my suggestion that one good razor will see him out, preferring instead multiblade swivel plastic. 

@DigForVictory - I have an answer to your burnt-on-gunge-fryingpan problem.  Put an inch of water in the pan - or to cover, if the burnt-on-bit is on the side - sprinkle in a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda, bring to the boil and boil for at least 5 minutes.  Allow to cool, before emptying, and the burnt-on-gunge should just lift off.  Works a charm.  Even lightens those bits of white enamel that have darkened with use.  (I have cast iron pots with enamel linings, like Le Creuset.  You can’t scour those.). Very rarely do you have to do this twice.

HTH

- Pip


PS:  Ditto to everything else you’ve said.

missychrissy

Re getting dried on dirty pans clean - I find soaking a pan with burnt or dried on food comes clean easily if soaked overnight with a cup of washing powder dissolved in water. 

SadieO

missychrissy said:

Re getting dried on dirty pans clean - I find soaking a pan with burnt or dried on food comes clean easily if soaked overnight with a cup of washing powder dissolved in water. 

Boiling up some cola in them can also work.

jackieblack

PipneyJane said:

@DigForVictory - I have an answer to your burnt-on-gunge-fryingpan problem.  Put an inch of water in the pan - or to cover, if the burnt-on-bit is on the side - sprinkle in a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda, bring to the boil and boil for at least 5 minutes.  Allow to cool, before emptying, and the burnt-on-gunge should just lift off.  Works a charm.  Even lightens those bits of white enamel that have darkened with use.  (I have cast iron pots with enamel linings, like Le Creuset.  You can’t scour those.). Very rarely do you have to do this twice.

HTH

- Pip


PS:  Ditto to everything else you’ve said.

yes this ^^^^^

Don’t do what I did last time though...  I got distracted and forgot about the bubbling pot of bicarb and added burnt on dried out bicarbonate of soda to the burnt on stuff I was trying to remove 😳

PipneyJane

jackieblack said:

PipneyJane said:

@DigForVictory - I have an answer to your burnt-on-gunge-fryingpan problem.  Put an inch of water in the pan - or to cover, if the burnt-on-bit is on the side - sprinkle in a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda, bring to the boil and boil for at least 5 minutes.  Allow to cool, before emptying, and the burnt-on-gunge should just lift off.  Works a charm.  Even lightens those bits of white enamel that have darkened with use.  (I have cast iron pots with enamel linings, like Le Creuset.  You can’t scour those.). Very rarely do you have to do this twice.

HTH

- Pip


PS:  Ditto to everything else you’ve said.

yes this ^^^^^

Don’t do what I did last time though...  I got distracted and forgot about the bubbling pot of bicarb and added burnt on dried out bicarbonate of soda to the burnt on stuff I was trying to remove 😳

Ouch!

@jackieblack - Love the quote in your signature.  I just had to comment/wave at a fellow member of the “Church of Wittertainment”.  Those two have kept me entertained for hours on long journeys - I bless the Friday that I first heard them (in 2008), while driving back from working on Humberside to London.  Now, in Lockdown, we download the podcast and sit together to listen.

- Pip. (Hello to Jason Isaacs.)

MrsStepford

I buy organic milk from Riverford and Lactofree from supermarkets The organic milk comes in plastic and the Lactofree in tetrapaks. My local council recycles both. There is a dairy which delivers to my town, twice a week in the evenings, to ensure that the milk is from that days milkings, but it also avoids the milk on the doorstep thing, for most people. 

I use Riverford and Watts Farm at the moment, both of which deliver in boxes and paper bags. The problem with buying organic in supermarkets, is that unless bagged, shoppers get devious. Twice now in ASDA we have seen a woman taking organic eggs and putting them into a SmartPrice box. If you pay more, you want what you've paid for.

I have been shown graphs on Twitter which show that the cow fart thing has been grossly overestimated. 

Evidently, there is a world shortage of cardboard right now. We have ordered a lot more food online and have religiously recycled every box. The insulated polystyrene ones used for meat, went to my mother, who is growing tomatoes and courgettes in them. 

jackieblack

PipneyJane said:

@jackieblack - Love the quote in your signature.  I just had to comment/wave at a fellow member of the “Church of Wittertainment”.  Those two have kept me entertained for hours on long journeys - I bless the Friday that I first heard them (in 2008), while driving back from working on Humberside to London.  Now, in Lockdown, we download the podcast and sit together to listen.

- Pip. (Hello to Jason Isaacs.)

Sorry to disappoint, but I don’t know anything about that 😳

I got the quote from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Sonny Kapoor says “In India, we have a saying – everything will be all right in the end. So if it is not all right, it is not yet the end.” I have also read that John Lennon said it too 🤷🏻‍♀️

I use it quite often when I, or someone I know, is going through a rough patch.  I find it helps me.

jackieblack

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ailz95

jackieblack said:

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You are right there.  How disgusting - and not many people here are even using them.  Makes me so sad.