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In my more innocent days I used to think that butter  that came wrapped in foil was plastic free.  Till the day I didn’t have a butter dish to hand and butter was served as bought, in the wrapper. Over time the foil wrapping began to crack, crack but not break.  Strange I thought … [...]

After you have made your own home made creams and lotions you need to store them in something. Old glass jam jars are fine for storing the excess but you  want to think twice before using glass in the bathroom what the hard tiles, slippery hands, bare feet and  shattering  potential. Nope this is a [...]

Recently I came across these flip & tumble Reusable Produce Bags- 5-Pack.  I have not tried them myself having more than enough produce bags but they have a good review on Amazon. Rather more expensive at 13.13 pounds for 5 the other bags featured on this site – check out the full range at the [...]

Bought this bottle of hydrogen peroxide from Boots in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The bottle is glass the cap is metal. Plastic free you might think well apart from the plastic lid liner and plasticised paper label. So massively plastic reduced is it that it is my choice of  antiseptic for my travel medical kit. As [...]

I don’t know what you do in a downtown hotel room in Bangkok but I make body lotion. I have been making my own creams and lotions successfully at home for ages now but since then of course I have packed my bags to travel the world. Obviously I don’t want to go back to [...]

Bit excited today as the PIR. Blog is featured over in Gadling Travel Blog,  a worthy publication with obviously  good taste. You can read the full article here It also mentions some good old (plastic free) timers,  Beth over at fake plastic fish and plastic manners … Let’s hear it for the girls. Best of [...]

People are always asking me how I stay so young and lovely looking with no plastic in my bathroom cabinet. Easy I say – I get all Blue Peter and make my own products. Its quicker then looking round Boots and trying to choose between a hundred different shampoos all promising the world; its really [...]

Cleaning your teeth involves so much plastic what with the tooth brushes and tubes of toothpaste. Lucky for you I have researched a number of plastic free products for you to try. There are these all natural toothbrushes from Germany and these compostable scrubbers from Australia. Plastic free dentifrices are listed here: tooth cleanser – [...]

When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. So here is our list [...]

When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. One great scheme is these [...]




  • Plastic lasts for ever and we are using it to make one use, throwaway items. We have created everlasting rubbish and plastic litter is increasing exponentially. Plastic pollution is destroying the landscape, killing wildlife and poisoning the seas.
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    Evidence is also emerging that the plastic we use in everyday to wrap our food, wear next to our skin and use to decorate our homes may well be poisoning us.
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    For more reasons to cut your plastic consumption click on the image below - it is of a bird that died from ingesting plastic.
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  • So in 2007 we began to boycott stupid and unnecessary plastic products and source biodegradable alternatives. . Click the rubbish below to see what we boycott.
  • . Over the years we have sourced a lot plastic free alternatives. These are products as tried and tested by us. .. To find out what they are click the image below...
  • But even we cannot live completely with out plastic - those seaside rides get us everytime! .. Click on the image below to see plastic we still use....
  • Plastic free highlights

  • planet trash
  • or check out the flickr group

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    Marine litter. A winters worth of beached litter.

    Marine litter. Collected litter ready for pickup.  90% plastic.

    London Pride Riverside Rubbish

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  • or pictures of plastic pollution on google

  • YOU TUBE

    Films of plastic crap in motion and some interesting solutions. Click the cups to go.

  • Lucky Dip


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