Giving up plastic a month at a time
Summer time and the living is easy … there is rock, fish and chips, knobbly knees and kiss me quick hats, fake bake and the ever optomistic sun tan lotion… the great British summer is upon us.
To celebrate that fact, this month has a sea side theme. I will be digging out my wind break, filling the thermos and planning some jolly good plastic free days out.
Why plastic free? Take a look at this washed up plastic debris - I think that says it all.
A bag of rubbish collected by a bush walker sits on top of a rock in Berry Island Reserve….
This guy has some shocking photos of plastic rubbish in a nature reserve
Or you could send some money to these guys - they need sponsoorship
“Departing from Los Angeles on June 2nd for Hawaii, Algalita staff set sail on “Junk,” a raft built on 15,000 plastic bottles. Their 2,100 mile journey will take them through the plastic-plagued Northern Pacific Gyre. Designed by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, the raft boasts an airplane fuselage, discarded fishing nets, a solar generator, and a wind turbine. This ambitious journey will bring further public attention to the plastic marine debris issue” - If you want to support them there is a sponsor form on their site
Photo and text taken from flickr
This rubbish washed up on a beach in South Pembrokeshire is just appalling. The beach itself is secret and out of the way in yet has been totally ruined by long-distance rubbish.
Originally uploaded by krupali
DONT USE PLASTIC!:@:@
this is Juhu beach.. the plastic from the drains is vomited out by the sea in the monsoon, leaving every inch of sand covered with plastic. Don’t use plastic , if you have to - dispose it appropriately.
Uploaded by krupali on 14 Jul 07, 10.14AM
Every year they, the fashionistas, say that pale is interesting - well up here in the windswept north of England where the sun dont shine, pallid is the norm and we hate it.
So refusing to bow to the indignities of our location we paint our selves with coffee and draw lines on our legs with eyeliner - no sorry that was the war. We stain ourselves brown with self tanning lotion.
But that comes in a plastic bottle and you know what I think about plastic bottles so I make my own
Add self tanning addative DHA to a base cream.
It works - though you might want to play around with the percentages - the first batch I made was rather strong for my glow in the dark white skin.
For details on DHA - stockists and amounts needed to turn you into a sun kissed deity click here
NB I added this to my home made lotion but I see no reason why you couldnt add it to a bought lotion. However making your own is really easy - for more details click here.
NBB the DHA comes in a small plastic tub. You can make loads of the stuff from one tub. So while the base ingredients come packaged in plastic this represents a massive reduction in plastic consumption as one small tub replaces a number of bottles.
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