New plan...time to see some movement!

That concrete paint is brilliant. My parents painted their garage floor with it. It went from permanently dusty with stuff all over it to cleanable. When youd swept it you could tell. I recommend it.

Well done on your most recent de-cluttering :T but sorry you and DH had a row . I don't blame you for being cross with DH though for selling the item so cheaply.

You sound like you've been very busy dismantling your wardrobe and re-arranging the furniture in the DC's room :T.

Have a good weekend .

The whole plastic debate...........IMO it is great people are talking about it, are actively doing something about it however small, are putting it on the political agenda. Plastic USE is part of environmental destruction not the recycling.We pump a finite resource (oil) out of the ground and use it to make something we use once and then bury in the ground again to last longer in an inaccessible form........:huh: If we reduced our consumption of plastic and particularly single use, then recycling what we do use may improve. We as a family have moved away from single use as much as possible and that does mean over packaged stuff. We decided we do not need to put fruit and veg in a plastic container wrapped in plastic film...is where we started, then toiletries, then clothing other food stuffs and finally just STUFF!.

Our waste is determined by how much we bring into the household ultimately so we took the decision as a family to slash this - I had to ask the council to stop leaving me a food waste bin as they thought I didnt have one as we NEVER put food waste out - bins have proved handy for storing bird seed though The odd chicken carcass/meat bones I put in our neighbours bin with their knowledge as they too have very little waste Our 'recyclable' waste is collected every week - we put ours out fortnightly and our 'non recyclable' waste is every 3 weeks - we put ours out every 9 weeks. I am personally very sceptical about council recycling practises but somewhere there has to be some trust!

I am not going to hijack your thread jwil but I am glad people are talking and long may it last. It is a bit like a container ship pulling up and turning........changing a mind set and habits..... but it has to happen.

I guess we are fortunate in that we live in a community which is all over this and is active in making that change so access to information, research,activities,resources is plenty. However if everybody took one single use plastic item out of their life forever then this is a positive step.

Now dont get me started on balloons and balloon releases :eek:

Sorry......I did hijack:o

ETA: I do agree with the sentiment of the article BTW...but everybody has to start somewhere!