January Bin

February 8, 2012 in In The Bin

Each month we record our plastic waste.

This is the plastic rubbish created by 2 people. Please note we count everything but the alcohol**

6 cans of soda – in plastic lined cans

5 glass bottle of soda with plastic lined metal caps

12 straws – We say no to the straws we, don’t use the straws, we give the straws back- but they still keep coming. Next time we are going to bring our own reusable straws

2 sim card in plastic wrapping and one memory card.

1 sachet of hot chocolate

1 plastic screw top of essential oil (glass) bottle

1 tube Pringles

1 jar olive – glass jar – plastic lined metal screw top lid

Gherkins – glass jar – plastic lined metal screw top lid

1 plastic bottle

1 toothbrush – we tried the biodegradable, wooden, all natural, toothbrushes but they don’t last very long, and to be honest I don’t feel they really get my teeth clean. Any one else have an input on these?

1 tub of butter – I know but last time it came in a pot and this time it didn’t and I really can’t eat dry bread.

To see our previous bins, look here

**When I say alcohol I mean the plastic lined metal caps off beer and other bottles of hooch and the occasional plastic lined can of beer (which we don’t really like but occasionally buy). We don’t count these because
• its hard to remember all of the drinks we have bought. I once tried to keep note in my notebook but it felt way too anal and garnered some strange looks.
• We buy rounds for other people which we are obviously we are not stop doing but can’t really count as our plastic.
• We keep stumbling on that first step. Still can’t admit that yes we are alcoholics.

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