The War against plastic waste

Primrose

I applaud your attitude JackiieO.  I think we "wartime babies" had the best education possible with regard to economical use of resources.  Perhaps we need to bring back rationing of all sorts of things.I think it would be a stark lesson to many of the younger generation but how else do you value resources in limited or rare supply?

PipneyJane

London_1 said:

I have a great potato patch growing I got £3 worth seed spuds reduced from B&Q just after Easter 16 spuds and they have all come up so will be harvesting them later this month with luck should have around 2 months of potatoes.

 Four tomato plants are absolutely loaded down with some real good sized tomatoes what I don't use fresh will be turned unto pasta sauce and frozen for use in the winter

I also have a very healthy pepper plant with a good crop growing on at the moment.

I use white vinegar for cleaning and washing soda, and even my left over denture tablet water gets chucked down the loo and left

I am soo into recycling almost anything I can ,but then I was born in the 1940s when there were so many shortages of almost everything, my late Mum recycled everything she could as a necessity  because there was nothing to replace things with, sheets were turned sided to middle, any cloth that was left over from almost anything was reused  until it virtually fell apart.We had a pillow case on the back of the kitchen door which was the rag bag for cleaning rags and polishing cloths

I still have four very soft cloths left over from the days of cloth nappies, that I use as polishing cloths as they are white they can be boiled or washed without being separate as normally the yellow ones are. By the way the original users are now 54 & 56 bread bags are reused for rubbish bags or my DD has even used them when walking her two dogs as poo bags.

Its zero waste as much as possible, every scrap of food is used, frozen if necessary. There is only a finite amount of resources to be had on the planet and if we don't look after them life will become very hard. I don't buy food to throw it in the bin You may as well just empty your purse into the bin. Not being miserly just using everything as much as possible and keeping stuff out of landfill

JackieO xx

Well said, @London_1.  That’s my philosophy too.  I totally agree!

I am reminded of something Sir David Attenborough said when asked for some wise words to pass onto the next generation, “Don’t waste”.  Little actions add up.  None of us can save the planet just by waving a magic wand, but we can all contribute small, positive actions that will add up to something which will tilt things in our favour.

- Pip