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July

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? click here to see lots of washed up plastic debris – I think that says it all.

Click here to see what I have given up this month


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Washed ashore

Just a Drop in the Sea, Eigg Beach Originally uploaded by suewhite

100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from ingestion and/or entanglement with marine litter. 
A plastic bottle can take over 450 years to degrade.
Over 50% of all marine litter is plastic
15% of marine litter is on the beach, 15% on the surface of the sea and the remaining 70% on the seabed just waiting for a big storm to bring onto our beaches.
It is estimated that 2 billion sanitary items are flushed down the toilet every year in the UK.
Studies show there are over 2000 items of litter for every 1km of UK coastline, that’s 1 bit of litter for every 50cm of beach surveyed! 
Over 35% of all the marine litter on the beach is left by beach users!
Over 170 different marine species have been found with plastics in their stomachs.
Estimates for cleaning up beaches around the UK range between £14 million and £157 million annually!
These stats were taken fronm the Surfers Against Sewage website


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Bin Update

You may remember way back when I started this project my black bin was overflowing with nasty plastic rubbish.

Since then I have given up so much in the way of plastic packaging,that what with that and the composting, my bin is a shadow of its former self.

Thought I would just see how long I could go. Last time I emptied it was May 15th I put the bin out last Thursday – July 12th –  thats 8 weeks – and we did some building work so had lots of  bags of building materials

Go plastic refusenik


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Plastic recycling

To find out how to recycle plastic  – click here
Recycled plastic lumber can be used  to make such things as  picnic benches and a whole load of other landscape stuff

Recycled funky yogurt pot sheeting amongst others  can be used in bathrooms – see here for great recycled plastics

Click here for all plastic recycling posts

Click here for other great things to do with plastic


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secret polluted beach

Originally uploaded by James Harrison
 

 

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.


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Please look at this picture

The picture and text were blogged from Flicr
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


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Fake bake plastic free

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

Home made self tan

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, 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.

You ca also add it to your home made suntan lotion to get a golden glow while NOT burning.

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.

Find other plastic free products with the A-Z plastic free index

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