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2009 – 10 – 09 – plastic shoe

Originally uploaded by Mississippi Snopes

For totally biodegradable shoes try these

The photo can be found in the Plastic Is Rubbish photo pool – a yahoo group illustrating the problems of plastic pollution world wide. Got any nasty shots? Feel free to dive right in

Indian rope slipper trick

Bought these in Shimla. They have great rope soles but I am pretty sure the wool is man made fibre so these don’t really count more an example of what is possible

Recycling Icelandic beach trash

Icelandic beach trash Originally uploaded by futureatlas.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last year I was fulminating about plastic coat hangers – well only yestrday I was ambling round Tesco when I took a detour into the clothes section. there I saw a coat hanger recycling box. For plastic ones of course

I also happened to notice lurking behind the counter in BHS a cardboard box labelled coat hanger recycling.

Try offering them to your local charity shop or freecycle them.

There are lots more ways to recycle, reuse and recraft waste plastic HERE

and find out how to REFUSE plastic with the >>>A-Z plastic free index.

The season of frilly knickers

Photo by funkypancake

December and its that time of year when husbands lurk round the lingerie sections of Marks and Sparks trying desperately to this year get it right.

But where there a re frilly knickers – or party frocks – or indeed all other items of apparel there are horrid plastic coat hangers. You know the kind they give away with well pretty much everything. I hate them. They are rubbish, break easily and are bad for your clothes. And most are pretty much one use display items only – and don’t tell me that any one uses those tiny knicker hangers to rehang their panties cos I just don’t believe you.

In the USA alone they get through 8 billion plastic / wire hangers a year .

Enough to fill the empire states building 4 times over.

Worse still clothes are increasingly being bought ready hung to save the shop owner the bother of hanging them or having to reuse old hangers. Grrrrr the world has gone mad.

So I try to buy unhung clothes and refuse/ return those hangers that are given to me free with my clothes. I also ask what the shops policy is on recycling those hangers. So far I have been met with blank looks.

I don’t have many clothes that need dry cleaning but when I do get that done I return the metal hanger.

I hang my clothes on wooden hangers made from FSC wood.

If you are a shop owner or dry cleaner and you really need a disposable hanger – here’s an interesting web site for eco paper hangers